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Submitted by Sarah on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 8:27am.

Want to know how to improve Olympia? Ask we the people who live here in Olympia.

Some of those locals who know how to fix it also blog their ideas, for example:

Oly & Art -

Olympia is not an easy town to be an artist. Due to the dearth of affordable studio space, most of the artists do their thing in their homes, which contributes to the lack of professionalism, camaraderie and community, and keeps us isolated from new ideas and spontaneous possibilities

read more at Pearl on Olympia Dumpster Divers

Oly & Education-

We cannot accept the fact that hundreds of students who start 9th grade don’t finish high school and a third of our students don’t have the minimum requisite school to participate in our economy.

read more at Make the Best Better on Nafzblog

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what a great post!

Wow, that is really nifty! I'm esp. interested in the art scene, and see the same lack of studio space as a big downer on the scene...studio co-op anyone?!
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Thanks!

Meta has a lot of great ideas here, hopefully eventually something will pull together.
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Lots of folks out there want

Lots of folks out there want to see a public arts center--we could probably gather enough support to make it happen. Co-locate with the Food Co-op? Have an Artists' Market like the Farmers' Market? Partner with the YODA project ? So many possible connections here, it's amazing this didn't happen last week!
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