General Interest

February 15, 2024General Interest, Housing

#104: New City Council member Robert Vanderpool

Robert Vanderpool just started his job on the Olympia City Council. So, to get to know Olympia’s new policy-maker, we asked him some questions about himself, about where he’s coming […]
September 14, 2023General Interest

#101: We’re Doing It Live!

We brought back host emeritus (and newly crowned friend of the podcast and I suppose city council member) Dani Madrone! We were also joined by Olympia city council member Dontae […]
June 21, 2023Downtown, General Interest, Housing, Legislature, Transportation

#99 Where are all the state offices going?

In the first half of this episode, we sit down with Yvonne Knutson (Office of Financial Management) and Maurice Perigo (Department of Enterprise Services) to talk about how state offices […]
March 7, 2023General Interest

The Lacey Standard

You can download the episode here. Speaking of which, here are two posts I wrote last year where Ken and I severely disagreed, which I referenced in the episode. We […]
August 6, 2022Downtown, General Interest, Housing

#95 Olympia Strong and building an economically resilient city

You can lend your voice to Olympia Strong now by filling out the city’s survey here. Download the episode here.
June 23, 2022Downtown, General Interest

#94 OlyWA Days of Change

Between 1960 and 1980, Olympia and Thurston County went through a massive change. From a sleepy timber town with a state capitol building, Olympia grew (and continues) to grow by […]
April 4, 2022General Interest

#93: Inspire (the) Olympia (Standard)

We have a small election coming up, so here is your small-ish episode about what people in Olympia will have to vote on. We talk to one of the people […]
March 2, 2022General Interest

#92: Update on right wing protests

Download the episode With a large right wing protest planned for the Capitol Campus this weekend (Saturday, March 5), it is a good time to check in with David Neiwert. […]
April 5, 2021General Interest

#85: Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland

Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland is our new representative in Congress, along with the rest of the 10th district; from Shelton to Puyallup, and Tenino to part of Tacoma. We chatted with […]
March 8, 2021General Interest, Legislature

#84: Give the State Heck

Denny Heck is no longer serving us as our representative in Congress, but he is serving every person in Washington as our Lieutenant Governor. We chatted with Denny about his […]