Back in March, when I welcomed Paul Constant to our then-unnamed policy/messaging shop, I joked about our boss’s weird hobby:
Most 1 percenters just don’t know what to do with all their filthy lucre. Some rich people collect art. Other rich people collect cars or even houses. But Nick Hanauer, America’s premier self-loathing plutocrat, seems intent on ostentatiously collecting ex-Stranger writers.
Well, I’m happy to announce that Nick has recently added Hanna Brooks Olsen to his crass menagerie.
Hanna has a number of freelance bylines at The Stranger and elsewhere, though she’s certainly best known to local readers as one of the forces behind the popular tumblog, Seattlish. Mostly, Hanna will be heading up a top-secret internal Civic Ventures project, but she’ll also contribute regularly to our Civic Skunkworks blog. In fact, her first Skunkworks post just went live today: “It’s Too Soon to Tell if a Higher Minimum Wage is Eliminating Restaurant Jobs.” Give it a read, and then pretty much ignore just about every headline you see on the so-called “early” impact of Seattle’s minimum wage.
So welcome to Civic Ventures, Hanna. Now let’s all go out there and change the world… you know, hopefully for the better.
STB in five… four… three… two…
So what you are basically saying is:
Nick is like Pasado’s Safee Haven just for unemployable writers
(from their website: ” Established in 1997 in honor of a special donkey named Pasado….”
Just saying