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Why districts?

Background # Richland has an administrative item on its ballot to determine whether to move from all at-large voting for council or toward a mix of districts and at-large positions.

I would like to share: The experience of trying to bring the public market to Richland and what it tells us about the current council; How Richland slyly directed $19mm in new debt toward city hall replacement under the guise of "waterfront development"; A

Dear friends, family, and folks we know from the Internet who have squirreled their way into our hearts, We have a new name!

I was sitting in the grey IKEA wingback in the corner of The Local when the door opened, the sun broke through clouds, and my heart warmed as a smile flooded me.

At &yetConf, everything was a surprise.

The week after Christmas, I married Sarah Bray, my dearest and closest friend in the universe.

Our announcement of Sarah and I acquiring Tumbleweird, a local independent newspaper in the spirit of The Stranger or The Portland Mercury.

Dee Hock.

I wrote this story to try to describe the late, great, and beloved Christopher W.

I have a problem.

The suburbs are broken.

It's really easy to see why people get cynical, stop caring, shrink their world, build walls, and exponentialize the number of people they couldn't possibly give a flying f * about.

"Conflict is a part of life," they say.

Fuse, the Tri-Cities’ community and business accelerator, is beginning a project to publish the history of our local community of founders, professionals, makers, developers, and designers.

Try to do things beyond categorization that are as hard to describe as they are to pull off and there will always be pressure to tame them.

I first heard about Jo Freeman’s The Tyranny of Structurelessness from Christina Xu at Brio.

The Internet was a town.

This month, I laid off six people who I care about—people I want to be friends with for the rest of my life.

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I quit caffeine a few days ago in an effort to improve my overall mental health.

Occasionally I get myself to a point where I feel completely overwhelmed by a large number of things causing me anxiety.

I woke up Monday morning and needed— needed —to tear apart our entire kitchen and reorganize everything in it.

I honestly liked freelancing better than running a company, but I think that’s mostly out of my own personal weaknesses.

Individual, one-to-one connections are what I want out of and what I want to put into a community.

Wince though I may: I (eventually) appreciate each excruciating reminder that not everyone likes me.

I've been thinking about what it was about NodeConf that had me a little anxious going into it.

How did you get here?

At the conclusion of this year's JSConf, Chris Williams held an open discussion, taking questions and comments from the several hundred gathered.

Sit down.

I woke up in a Los Angeles hotel bed in the early hours of last Tuesday and picked up my phone to see it was 5am and I had a new email from an old friend.

I surprised some people when I said I was taking November off Twitter.

God grant me the grace to solve at least as many problems as I create.

When I was a kid, the picture I had in my head of "leadership" was pretty stereotypical.

A few weeks after starting &yet, I started a ritual that I carried on for most of the first year I was freelancing.

The only certain product from a decision is an outcome.

Encouragement is the only force that can change the world with words in the only way that matters: one person at a time.

Four of us sat on the floor in the one room of the castle with reliable Internet access, our “wireless” network mocked by 16-inch 13th century stone walls.

There’s a stark difference asking that question about the past vs. the future—a drink of despair vs. a drink of possibility.

Accomplishment is an irrelevant trinket, like a merit badge sitting in box of childhood nostalgia.

An idea is introduced.

You have a dream.

Forget time and money.