voice of bainbridge

FOR SALE 1986 Volvo 740 Station Wagon

We have finally decided to part with Mouse our faithful 1986 Volvo 740 station wagon. I put an ad in the Review and I already have had a few calls. People ask me: what can you tell me about this car? And I don't know what to say except you should come and have a look and a test drive.
The picture is not of our car but it is the same model (the car in the picture is from Zurich, what do you expect: it's swiss clean).

Nezam's answers

Hello Philippe.  Nice to hear from you again.

I opted for a web site without a blog primarily due to my own time constraints.  Also I do not have the support needed to create and maintain a blog.  As you know, I am not accepting financial contributions to my campaign.  This meant I had to go with a simple web site that was rich in content.  I am not sure if you are offering to help with creating and maintaining a blog but, if you are, I am game.

New blog on the block

Thank you Althea for telling us about the anonymous making trouble.

Questions for Darlene

Hello Darlene!
I just visited your very traditional website, :)
It is a nice initiative but it does not allow visitors to ask you questions for everybody to see and post comments.
In my opinion it is with this type of interactive communication that one can see what candidates think and stand for.

Questions for Nezam

Hello Nezam!
I just visited your very traditional website, :)
It is a nice initiative but it does not allow visitors to ask you questions for everybody to see and post comments.
In my opinion it is with this type of interactive communication that one can see what candidates think and stand for.

The blog solution for local media and civic life

The bad news is I have been frustrated with our local media (The Bainbridge Review, the Kitsap Sun, the Bainbridge Islander, BIB) for quite a while. I think the City website is abysmal and our elected officials totally fail in  responding to our needs to be informed about what's happening to our community under their watch.

Ghostcycle

Ghostcycle is an interesting initiative in Seattle to promote safe biking.

Any vloggers on Bainbridge?

This one is in Norway.

More Bainbridge bloggers

Thanks Julie for pointing to the list compiled by the Buzz. I added The way from here by Nancy Blakey and decided to call it a day. It's too nice outside to sit in front of this screen.
Have a good sunday :)

Candidates for Mayor and money

I went back to the public disclosure commission site because Steve Gardner wrote in a Kitsap Sun article that Will Peddy now had raised $ 14.350 from 40 donors while Darlene had $ 9.460 from 83 donors.
Checking is pretty tedious because the system does not allow for a quick and easy read.
I still thought it would be worth a closer look to see who were those supporters.

On behalf of the trees Oct 8 2003

Memory lane: it was two years ago. On Thursday evening, October 8 2003 Philippe Boucher addressed the Planning Commission.
Here are his notes.
They do not correspond to what he actually said word by word but that's what he meant.

Two new blogs

Fletcher Landing, a public beach is about public access to beaches. You know where I stand on this issue. I learned on Fletcher Landing that Mr Peddy is not in favor of road-ends: tst, tst...
The second blog is the Bainbridge Bulletin: for the moment it contains only one bulletin posted on June 11. All our best wishes! :) keep writing...

The downfall of local traditional media

The investigative piece by the Buzz team about Mr Peddy shows how citizen journalism works much better than traditional newspapers, especially when they don't embrace the new media. It is telling that the Buzz is so obviously better than the Review and the Sun/Islander. Did anybody also wonder what we get from BIB in terms of news (except the passive recording of city council meetings)?
Any idea of what the Buzz team could achieve with a similar budget?

A sad and pathetic reading

I have read the draft of the Bainbridge Island Community Forest Management Plan that is now "available" for our review. I write "available" because this text is  not easily readable in the format  sent via email  and while a  posting in a blog format would make comments very easy there is nothing of the sort with this document that is not posted on the small page devoted to the "community forestry commission" within the abysmal website of the city of Bainbridge.
PS: in fact the draft is posted on the page -my mistake- but I still consider the site abysmal :)
One more precision: I think Marja Preston (the planner attending to the Commission) has done as fine a job as she could considering the lack of political strength and courage of the Commission members and the opposition of the Head of the planning department to any serious protection of our trees. None of the members of the Council nor the Mayor nor any other member of a commission that should have intervened (like the Planning Commission), nor any local enviroment group has done anything significant to speak up for our trees and ask for their preservation and for precisions about the creation of new parks downtown. When I offered to speak up within a project submitted to the Arts Council it was turned down. It is also my fault that I was unable to rally anybody around a cause I think is so important. A friend of the trees preaching in vain in the desert. Also in vain are the numerous letters to the editor published at regular intervals by the Review to make it look like some serious consideration is given to this issue. Of course it is exactly the opposite. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose  :(

Against computers in the classrooms (again)

Here is an article published in Orion Magazine about the damaging effects of computers within the classroom.

Drowning New Orleans

This prophetic article by Mark Fischetti was published in the Scientific American of October ... 2001 and then featured on National Geographic TV: "A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city."
Also Katrina's real name...