Download as PDF IT Bike Commuter Winter Challenge February 1 – 28 It’s time to celebrate winter bicycling, with the Winter Bicycle Commuter Challenge! The Winter BCC runs for the whole month of February, with awesome prize drawings each week, and a bonus drawing at the end of the month…
Posts published in “Issue: February 2022”
For 27 years, YWCA Olympia has recognized community members leading change at the intersection of racial and gender justice. On February 19, Womxn of Achievement recognizes Elizabeth Satiacum and Ti’eri Lino. Elizabeth Satiacum is the Native American Coordinator at Puget Sound Education Service District (PSESD), where she works with over…
Every few months we read about another parcel of land being sacrificed for housing. The planned destruction of the forest near Evergreen and the ten acres of “non-forested” land at LBA Woods are recent examples and more will follow. Indigenous people have a different way of seeing the natural world.…
YOU WRITE TO WIP: The Port of Olympia investigation of Port Commissioner Amy Evans’ possible conflicts of interest has to be done by an outside group. The Port’s staff and their attorney answer to Port Director Sam Gibboney who has shown herself to be biased in this issue. We recommend that new Chair Bob Iyall select an independent investigator.
Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is growing rapidly and the unemployment rate is low, yet there’s been a mass resignation by workers, an increased number of strikes, inflation is high and we are all experiencing greater stress and anxiety about the future. What’s going on?
Grifters get the money—grandma gets the boot On Halloween, 2021, six grandmas and one grandpa in a 16-unit apartment community received a notice from their new property management company. It said “120-day renovation notice” and referenced an upcoming rent increase. The notice was quite a shock, because over this last year, any…