General Interest

June 14, 2025General Interest

#117: What happened to Tumwater

The most enduring local history myth is that Tumwater’s downtown was destroyed by Interstate 5. Also, thanks for listening. After a month or so of successful interviews, this will be […]
May 31, 2025General Interest

#115: Aaron Van Tuyl, the best local news podcast and local journalism

In this episode, we break our own rules and leave the county. We talk to one of the voices behind the best local news podcast in the country to ask […]
May 3, 2025General Interest, Legislature

#111: Don’t think of an Olympia

On this episode, I read my blog post “Don’t think of an Olympia” from Olympia Time, revisiting one of my longest-running gripes: the use of “Olympia” as a lazy shorthand […]
April 19, 2025General Interest

#109: Public Comment 101

In this episode of The Olympia Standard, we dive into the city’s now-dormant effort to revise its Memorandum of Understanding with neighborhood associations and explore how representative those groups really […]
April 6, 2025General Interest

#107: Season 2 Episode 1 (thanks for hanging in there)

Hey! If you’re reading these show notes, I want to thank you a ton! We both got through 2024! And you in particular didn’t cull this podcast from your feed. […]
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.