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Jun. 3 Editor's note: This is one in a series of interviews with candidates running for Olympia City Council. At the end of each interview, The Olympian asked every candidate two questions: what they pay in rent or mortgage, and if they could correctly state the median home sale price in Olympia, which is $430,000. Dontae Payne grew up in Philadelphia. He joined the U.S. Army at age 23 and . ....
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com. City officials in Olympia, Wash., on Tuesday condemned the actions of activists aligned with the group Oly Housing Now, after the forcible occupation of a hotel over the weekend to demand pandemic housing for the homeless, according to a report. I’m calling this crime an act of domestic terrorism, Olympia Mayor Cheryl Selby said at a city council meeting on Tuesday, according to the Olympian. The group of approximately 45 people barged into the Downtown Olympia Red Lion Hotel around 11 a.m. local time Sunday armed with items such as hatchets, batons, knives and had gasmasks, helmets, and goggles apparently in preparation for a confrontation, the city announced in a press release. ....
Mayor calls Olympia hotel occupation domestic terrorism The Olympian 2/3/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Feb. 3 Olympia city officials on Tuesday roundly condemned the actions of the group Oly Housing Now, which staged an occupation of the Red Lion Inn hotel on Sunday afternoon that ended in seven arrests. Council member Dani Madrone said she was appalled. Mayor Pro Tem Clark Gilman said he was disappointed and confused. Other adjectives included reckless, uninformed, and infuriating. The latter term came from council member Renata Rollins, who co-founded a homelessness advocacy group and has been vocal about supporting harm reduction approaches to homelessness. She called the group s actions short-sighted, ego-driven, and counterproductive. ....
Olympia City Council approves interim police guild contract, but hints at future changes The Olympian 1/13/2021 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Jan. 13 Olympia City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved an updated contract will the Olympia Police Guild, the union that represents 60 of the Olympia Police Department s officers. The previous contract expired at the end of 2019, and the guild has been operating under that terms of the expired contract since then. The new contract covers two years, including 2020 (retroactively) and 2021; most of the changes have to do with wages and benefits. The total cost to the city is $189,818 for 2020 and $119,541 for 2021. ....
Here s the shortlist for the open seat on Olympia s City Council The Olympian 12/19/2020 Brandon Block, The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) Dec. 19 One of seven candidates the city of Olympia announced Friday will likely fill the seat opening up on Olympia s City Council in January, when Mayor Pro Tem Jessica Bateman moves to her new position in the state House of Representatives. The city received 29 applications, which were evaluated by a special subcommittee that met on Friday and recommended seven finalists. If the council approves the subcommittee s shortlist, one of the seven will be appointed by council and serve until the next election in November 2021. Although Bateman s term would have lasted until 2023, state law dictates that the interim member serve only until the next general election. Several other seats are up for election next November, including those of Jim Cooper, Clark Gilman, Renata Rollins, and Lisa Parshley. ....