Ha. Got your attention yet? For a while now, I’ve had this picture of the July 14, 1914 Vancouver Daily Columbian tacked to my corkboard. What a trip huh? Looks like Multnomah County issued $1.25 million in bonds to get…
Ha. Got your attention yet? For a while now, I’ve had this picture of the July 14, 1914 Vancouver Daily Columbian tacked to my corkboard. What a trip huh? Looks like Multnomah County issued $1.25 million in bonds to get…
As the attendees of countless public meetings, we mavens consider ourselves the peanut gallery of the peanut gallery. After three years of sitting through Vancouver City Council meetings, I can say I’ve gotten to know the M.O. of frequent fliers…
Oh bureaucracy. The things we do in the name of satisfying your weird quirks. Case in point: As of Monday night, the circa 1978 Vancouver Police Headquarters at 605 Evergreen Blvd. is now a historic monument. Whaaaaa? We get the…
I kind of want to give the Town of Yacolt a hug. I’m covering for fellow maven Stephanie Rice while she’s off in Idaho or some place. That includes making sure the county commissioners aren’t doing anything terribly newsworthy. They’re…
We daily newspaper reporters, of all people, are forgiving of those who make errors when working on a short timeline. But, sometimes the press releases we get from local law enforcement are just laughable. Take this one from Portland Police…
Here are the last two sentences of David Madore’s statement in the Clark County Voters Guide: Vote to elect David Madore for Commissioner and re-elect Commissioner Tom Mielke. Let’s get Clark County working again! Mielke said Monday he will not…
While talking yesterday to Auditor Greg Kimsey about why Clark County had the lowest voter turnout in the state in the Aug. 7 primary, he suggested one possible reason turnout here was lower than other counties in the Portland media…
The Secretary of State’s office posted vote tallies from all 39 counties, and Clark County ranked last in terms of registered voters who bothered to read about candidates, open a ballot, fill it out and send it in or drop…
Temple Lentz and the Daily ‘Couve couldn’t stay out of this for long. After outing herself as the author of the local politics and news satire site in March, Lentz came back this morning — by punking The Columbian’s newsroom…
With the disclaimers that I’m using election totals from Friday, as there are still 700 or so ballots to count that were subject to challenges, and the fact that I rounded off the monetary amounts, here’s what candidates for county…
