Monthly Archives: July 2012

Summertime, when the living’s no longer easy, retains its tradition of book lists and reading. The following come highly recommended: Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and transform America by Joe Burns (2011). Workers’ only real bargaining power is … Continue reading →

For some great volunteer entertainment, you can’t go wrong planning on attending (it’s FREE) the Medfest (Belly dancing) 11-7 Sat & 11-5 Sun @ Hiawatha Community Center, 2700 California Ave SW, West Seattle, WA (Saroya: 206-824-4751) Here’s just a glimpse of … Continue reading →

w/The kind permission of its director, these video clips highlight the vibrant talented group (160 total) of volunteer singers in Anna’s Bay Chorale who call Mason County home. If you’ve ever wanted a piece of Norman Rockwell’s America, here it … Continue reading →

“One must be honest to live outside the law.” -B. Dylan- Pets have become a lucrative source of income and a growth industry in an otherwise failing economy. Veterinarian dentists net far more than their counterparts w/human patients. End of … Continue reading →

2012 Candidates Filing Info 2012 Mason Candidates interviews by MasonWebTV.com (Dedrick Allan) KMAS Radio (AM1030 FM104.1) 2012 Mason Voters Guide Also, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General, Commissioner of Public Lands, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Insurance Commissioner, … Continue reading →

The Evergreen State College (TESC) biology department has discovered how to clone politicians. Meet Terri Jeffreys, a TESC graduate who interned w/Tim Sheldon and became his protege before heading the local Chamber of Commerce down the primrose path in support … Continue reading →

Where: Oakland Bay middle school commons/dining hall, Shelton When: 7-18-12 & 7-26-12 @ 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Wednesday & Thursday) What: 7-18-12 County Commissioner Candidates/offices 7-26-12 State Office/Representative Candidates Who: Sponsors are Green Diamond, Chamber, League of Women Voters

Where: Shelton Post Office Park gazebo When: Thursday evenings (7:00pm) from 7-12-12 through August. Click on Bring your own chairs for calendar/itinerary

One of the most important elective offices in the State is that of justice on Washington’s Supreme Court. Gerry Alexander is retiring. Running for that vacancy is a relative unknown (Bruce Danielson, a Kitsap attorney) and the more credentialed Steven … Continue reading →

Social cooperation network experiments are similar to the paradox of the commons–and aren’t really ‘hypothetical’ at all. We’re seeing this in all its variations around us daily. A man who steals a goose from the commons is arrested while another … Continue reading →