“Keeping American Workers Paid and Employed” is the name of Title I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) that Congress passed at the end of March, 2020. Section 1102 of Title 1 authorized $340 billion for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and laid out the terms…
Works in Progress
Turning residential neighborhoods into commercial zones Olympia’s planners have a new proposal that promises to worsen the city’s housing shortage and escalate costs beyond existing levels. Their new initiative focuses on “short term rentals,” (STRs), where a room or a house is rented for stays of less than 30 days.…
Accept Responsibility, displayed on billboards through August 9, is a plea for citizens of Puget Sound to accept their role and responsibility—as taxpayers, as members of a democratic society, and as neighbors to the Trident nuclear submarine base in Hood Canal—to work to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
Since May 2017 the Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (OCANW) has worked in strategically smart grassroots ways to build a local movement to abolish nuclear weapons. We hold a giant banner one hour a week over I-5. We devised an informative four-session course (“Nuclear Weapons Nowadays: What You Can…
On Thursday, July 23, the largest representative of public school employees, Washington Education Association (WEA), issued the following statement on safety first: As the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to grow across Washington, we are sadly faced with a choice between two bad options—either return to schools and put…
Some activists wince at the word “protest.” It doesn’t convey the magnitude of public outcry that has taken place in Olympia....