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If I listened only to The Oly
Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 10:22am.Since I fortunately don't listen to our newspaper on such matters, I find an entirely different scene. People enjoying dining downtown and strolls after. Probably some live music available somewhere. The fountain being played in during warm weather. Movies, theater. People even live quite comfortably downtown.
Yes, some people car camp. The answer to that isn't to demonize them. Same with public drug and alcohol use. Like most cities, we could use a few 24 hour public bathrooms. Affordable housing. Substance abuse treatment and health care. Jobs.
So much The Olympian could praise. Intercity Transit. Needle exchange workers. All our restaurants and coffee houses. Indy bookstores. Our historical buildings. Public art. Our local radio stations. Businesses that practice fair trade.
Good articles on these and other subjects do sneak out from time to time. I wonder how The Olympian can change their slant for the better.
The Bar Code isn't exactly th
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 1:01pm.Is an assault going to happen at another bar? Yes, it will. Are your chances greater if you're at the Bar Code (to be fair, Frankie's is another)? Yep.
Is there a way our local news
Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 2:03pm.I'm sure part of the situatio
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 5:10pm.I doubt everyone at The Zero is sitting around a roundtable discussing how they are going to make downtown look bad.
Of course, you have to rememb
Submitted by theunabonger on Thu, 12/22/2005 - 3:50pm.Of course, you have to remember that if we let the vermin, derelicts, and bums that frequent downtown Olympia in increasing numbers, behave in *any* fashion, in the name of tolerance, we really give them no incentive to seek and acquire affordable housing, or change their behaviors to conform to mini mum standards. I like downtown Olympia, and I spend a lot of time there, but I'd rather like it a lot more if it wasn't filled with lolly-gaggers and meth-heads, who aren't contributing constructively to society, and instead just persue their own irresponsible hedonist agenda.
Cosmo
I think the "if it bleeds, it
Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 5:21pm.I want them to hire more people. More people writing and reporting. More content, more in-depth. With some muckraking.
'Course, I also want an Oly TV station, other than TCTV.
Sarah: I want them to hire mo
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 5:23pm.The Fire: I can't imagine Olympia is a large enough market to support having a big paper. For the most part we live in small town America.
If they provided better cover
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 12/10/2005 - 6:34pm.