At tonight’s (June 5) City Council meeting, the Council will be considering approving an agreement with Kitsap Public Utilities District to take over management of our City water. So far, it appears as if the Council is split three-three with one vote still not yet shored up for either side. Citizens on both sides of…
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Experts Counsel Against Likely H20 Divestiture Vote Tonight: Why You Should Care
Posted on 05 June 2013.
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Eleven Winery Gets “Square,” Adopting Innovative Fundraising Model
Posted on 02 June 2013.
Like many 21st-century entrepreneurs, Eleven Winery’s Matt Albee is looking to new models for fundraising for his business. And like many entrepreneurs, he’s engaging in a system of crowdfunding. But instead of using Kickstarter, as many of his peers are, Albee has turned to a Seattle-based company, Community Sourced Capital (CSC), to raise the $20,000…
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Acclaimed Documentary “Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work” Shows May 9
Posted on 07 May 2013.
The aptly named “Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work” by Seattle-area filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young is all about shifting business ownership to the people who do the work. It’s not a new idea, and yet in our transnational corporate-dominated global economy this simple and sound notion rings “radical.” Successful cooperatives such as REI, Group Health,…
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Public WiFi in the Works for Winslow
Posted on 25 April 2013.
Broad band is on its way to downtown Bainbridge. According to Rex Oliver, President of the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber has been working with the Kitsap Public Utility District (KPUD) to get free WiFi in Winslow, and they are one signature away from taking the next steps to instal broad band around…
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Peering Over the Fiscal Cliff
Posted on 23 December 2012.
by Mark Kruse, December 23, 2012, 1:25 p.m. The year-end economic “Fiscal Cliff” facing the United States has generated a great deal of media attention and consequent anxiety. Beneath the political bluster, the Fiscal Cliff represents a battle between two contradicting economic values: maintaining economic growth and balancing the federal government budget. It is quite…
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City Forecasts Revenue Shortfalls; Proposed Budget Will Cut Jobs
Posted on 29 September 2012.
12:25p.m. To prepare its proposed two-year budget for the City of Bainbridge Island, administrative staff operated on the assumption that “key City revenues” would remain flat for a while to come. To that end, Interim City Manager Morgan Smith issued a warning: “Given our forecasts, the city will be challenged to continue to deliver current…
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Living by Design: Flying Away to Damanhur, Italy
Posted on 29 July 2012.
by Chuck Estin July 28, 2012 1:52 p.m. Flying over the Atlantic, I’m in a place between worlds. I left my old world when I boarded the ferry this morning, after three days of minimal sleep putting my affairs in order from my Island realm. Now I’m struggling to adjust my large frame to the…
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National Survey of Bainbridge Businesses Shows Why Shopping Locally Benefits Us All
Posted on 19 July 2012.
3:35 p.m. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Civic Economics, a nationally recognized economic analysis and economic development strategic planning consultancy, recently conducted their Indie Impact Survey on Bainbridge with 13 downtown businesses. The results show that the businesses return a total of 39.8 percent of all revenue to the local economy. By comparison, four…
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Job Club Forming on Bainbridge
Posted on 22 June 2012.
June 22 1:03 p.m. Need work or know someone who does? You’re in good company. Unemployment or underemployment can be bleak. But wait! For Bainbridge Island and surrounding Kitsap County residents, hope is on the way. A new job club is forming called the CEOs (Creative Eternal Optimists), and founder Leigh Taylor is currently seeking…
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Don’t Wait to Save: IRAs and 401(k)s for Retirement
Posted on 09 May 2012.
by Mark Kruse May 9, 2012 It seems every industry has its own set of vocabulary, which is then often abbreviated into acronyms that only make understanding it more difficult. The investment industry is certainly no different. The vast array of jargon that is part of the financial planning process may be one reason many…
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GiveBIG on Bainbridge—Today!
Posted on 02 May 2012.
Today, Wednesday May 2, is The Seattle Foundation’s GiveBIG one-day, online charitable giving event. Today, every donation made through The Seattle Foundation’s website to any of the 1,300 profiled nonprofit organizations actively profiled with TSF (which include at least 29 organizations on this side of the water) will receive a pro-rated portion of the matching funds…
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Bainbridge Public Schools Face Fiscal Emergency: Cuts to Staff, Programs, and Services on the Table
Posted on 29 April 2012.
At last week’s Bainbridge Island School Board meeting, board members faced two crucial votes on the agenda: whether to authorize fiscal emergency action and whether to authorize reductions in educational programs. They authorized both, meaning that, unless something happens in the interim, this fall there will be reductions in staffing (affecting at most eight employees),…
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Life Insurance: To Rent or to Own?
Posted on 23 April 2012.
by Mark Kruse April 20, 2012 Once you recognize the importance of life insurance and start the search for a suitable policy, one of the first choices you will commonly face is whether to buy term or whole life insurance. While the distinction between these two types of coverage is fairly clear, understanding how each…
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Trash Backwards: A Bainbridge-Developed App to Reduce Waste
Posted on 10 April 2012.
The founder and former CEO of Fair Trade Sports, Scott James has, after five years, now taken up something different: garbage. With partners Rebecca Rockefeller, Liesl Clark, and Teri Bellamy, James launched a new venture, CORA, with the deceptively simple goal of removing items from the waste chain. Cora is the Tibetan word for circle,…
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Living by Design: Damanhur and Reclaiming Community Wealth
Posted on 16 March 2012.
by Chuck Estin March 16, 2012 In Greek mythology, the mortal Psyche allows a drop of hot oil—olio caldo—to fall on her lover, Eros. The olio caldo catalyzes an alchemical transformation that propels Psyche on a mythic journey, eventually culminating in her becoming immortal and reuniting with Eros. The Olio Caldo Project began in 1985;…
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Come to Saturday’s “Small Island, Big Green” Celebration of RePower’s First Year
Posted on 14 March 2012.
RePower Bainbridge will be celebrating its one-year anniversary this Saturday, March 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Winslow, with a community party. RePower, a community-based program designed to help people find out how to increase home energy efficiency, has provided more than 1,700 Bainbridge Island residents with Home Energy checkups. Of those, more…
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Property Taxes on Bainbridge: The County Treasurer Looks at 2012
Posted on 12 February 2012.
Meredith R. Green, Kitsap County Treasurer, has written the community with a look ahead at 2012 in the wonderful world of taxes. Green says that Bainbridge Island will see an increase of approximately 7% in School District taxes due to voter-approved levies. She explains that this increase follows a 7% decrease in 2011 due to…
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Living By Design: Italy’s Damanhur—A Model of Community Sustainability
Posted on 31 January 2012.
by Chuck Estin January 31, 2012 The Federation of Damanhur is a thriving community of 1,000 in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Damanhurians live in large shared houses, or nucleos, scattered throughout the Valchiusella Valley. After 37 years, Damanhur has farms producing much of its food, numerous businesses, schools, and healing centers. Damanhur is…
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Got Space? HomeShare Has a Deal for You
Posted on 23 January 2012.
In this time of economic recession, it pays to assess one’s assets. And if you’ve got an extra room, a carriage house, or an apartment above the garage, the Bainbridge Island Housing Resources Board can turn your bonus space into a resource for you and for someone else. What HRB’s HomeShare program does is match…
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Living By Design: Seven Forms of “Capital”
Posted on 24 December 2011.
by Chuck Estin December 24, 2011 Joulie was smaller than an erg, but still a bundle of energy. She flew out of the sun when two hydrogens, forced together by the sun’s gravity, fused to form a helium atom. Jumping with joy, Joulie rode a ray out into space that scored a direct hit on…
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