UPDATE: I'M A WAL-MART SHILL!

The Comments section in The Olympian article (reached by clicking "Comments" near the top of that webpage - ironically below the Safeway ad!) are priceless.

I take exception to one particular discription there: someone calls me "some stooge from Seattle..." But I'm not even from Seattle.

IN THE NEWS

Here's a link to a story in the Olympia, Washington newspaper The Olympian about the economic analysis I did about a proposed Wal-Mart in Tumwater. Tumwater is south of Olympia. Recall I did a study and provided public testimony about a store in nearby Yelm, Washington as well.

I get to answer public questions about my findings in a couple of weeks in Tumwater.

BAD BLOGGER, BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER

After Kate shamed me into updating the blog, I'm here to put up a new post with plans to add during the day when possible.

I'll start off with the following photo:


This is the view out of my window at my office in downtown Portland, taken yesterday right before I headed home from work. Andrew Sullivan, a writer that I regularly read and admire for contrarian political and religious opinions, is presently publishing select reader-submitted photos to his blog at Time Magazine's website. I submitted the above photo and he liked it enough to post it.