General Interest

• June 1, 2020General Interest

  #64: How to Save Local Journalism

  Local journalism is struggling to survive, including our own newspaper, The Olympian. This was true before the pandemic, and has intensified in the crisis. Yet communities rely on local reporting […]

• March 30, 2020General Interest, Public Health

  #60: COVID-19 Hits Olympia

  The past few weeks have turned life in Olympia on its head. In this episode, recorded remotely in our homes, we share some updates from our lives and our observations […]

• March 16, 2020General Interest

  #59: Cooperative Business and Housing

  What makes Olympia uniquely situated to support cooperatives? Maybe it’s because we’re home to the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, which supports the development of cooperative businesses and housing. We interviewed […]

• March 2, 2020General Interest

  #58: Economic Development

  A few of the questions we received from our listeners for our 2020 agenda are about Olympia’s economy. We invited Mike Reid, the economic development director for Olympia, to talk […]

• February 10, 2020General Interest

  #57: The 2020 Census

  A new decade, a new census! Every ten years, the federal government completes a count of all the people living within the US borders. We interviewed Amy Hatch-Winecka and Sara […]

• January 13, 2020General Interest

  #55: Our 2020 Agenda

  What’s in the works for The Olympia Standard in the coming year? We asked our listeners to send us their ideas and questions on issues they’d like us to discuss. […]

• December 30, 2019General Interest

  #54: Exit Interview with Steve Hall

  Steve Hall worked for the city of Olympia for over 30 years, recently retiring as our city manager. When someone leaves a position of employment, exit interviews are conducted so […]

• October 28, 2019General Interest

  #50: Immigration and ICE

  On issues of immigration, most people are paying attention to the southern US border. To highlight how these issues impact our own community, we interviewed Steffani Powell, a local immigration […]

• July 8, 2019General Interest

  #41: City Government Structure

  On this episode, we explored the structure of city government, the reason we have the system we have, and what a different system looks like in a neighboring city. Olympia […]

• December 28, 2018General Interest

  #30: Our 2019 Agenda

  For our last episode of 2018, we solicited topics and questions that our listeners would like to hear about in the next year. We reviewed the most intriguing questions to […]