An infill plan sure to make developers happy If you live in one of the older, near-town Olympia neighborhoods, big changes are looming for your neighborhood. The same goes for your neighborhood if it’s zoned R6-12 (sixto 12 housing units per acre) or R4-8 within two blocks of a Neighborhood…
Works in Progress
Leaders from several tribes appeared at a rally in Lacey in support of Initiative 1631 last month—another instance of the people taking on the task of addressing climate change themselves. President Fawn Sharp (photo, right) of the Quinault Nation and other tribal leaders joined together to create the First American…
Storytellers, movie makers, panels and workshops, oh my! The Olympia Film Society presents its 35th Annual Film Festival November 9-17, 2018. The theme this year revolves around “Inclusion, Independence, Discovery.” OFS has curated over 50 features and shorts created by a diverse range of filmmakers and artists, with fresh new…
Imagine our surprise when WIP received copies of three emails from Administration figures anxious to clear their names—just their first name, you’ll have to guess the surname. We reprint them here for the record—and encourage other Wipster tipsters to stay on their toes for more...
President Trump [how it pains me to use those two words in conjunction], Republican leaders in Congress—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell particularly–and sycophants in the media, have latched onto a concept that they believe, perhaps correctly, will energize Trump’s base: Democrats, and by implication the left in general, are an “angry mob.”…
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Charles Scribner & Sons, 2018), by Jessamyn Ward. Jesmyn Ward pens an account of the living and the dead in her latest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, set in the heart of what was once home to slavery, Jim Crow and sharecropping. The story takes place in the…