I am sad to report that my last-minute campaign during Washington’s primary last week was unsuccessful. I lost my bid to become the Evergreen State’s newest Commissioner of Public Lands. What’s that? You had no idea I was running for public office? Neither did I, right up until the day of the election. My coworker, Kimberly, wasContinue reading “Bad News: I Lost the Election”
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You Can Fight City Hall
A couple of days ago, this meeting invite showed up in my In Box. Best Outlook invite ever. Took me all of five seconds to accept. Maybe you can fight City Hall, after all. Our request for information on any zoning restrictions pertaining to the “No Parking” signs we wanted to put up had gone ignored forContinue reading “You Can Fight City Hall”
You Can’t Fight City Hall
“Do you want to take a trip to City Hall?” a coworker asked me recently. “You can’t fight City Hall!” I said. “Don’t worry, we’re not getting into a rumble or anything,” she assured me. “OK, good. Are we going there to protest something? What are we protesting? I’m pretty anti-ISIS these days, but IContinue reading “You Can’t Fight City Hall”
Mark Petruska 