The Vancouver City Council, after expressing concerns about being a Sister City to Dubrovnik, Croatia, agreed Monday to start a relationship. However, the council is taking it slow. In a change of plans, what was approved Monday was an agreement with…
It’s been a good month for public comment in Clark County. First, there was the marathon Clark County commissioners meeting on May 7, where a lengthy public hearing and outrage over the hiring of state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, pushed…
Code enforcement scofflaws take note: Camas has a new tool at its disposal. And it’s four cylinders, two cup holders and one fender of American-molded fiber glass.
Clark County commissioners discussed the May 1 hiring of state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, to the position of director of Environmental Services again at this past Wednesday’s board meeting. That’s been a wee bit of a hot topic lately with…
Of all the topics presented at Vancouver City Council workshops, a proposal to be a Sister City with Dubrovnik, Croatia, seemed like it would be fairly innocuous. I wrote about the proposal in February when a delegation from Dubrovnik, including the mayor, visited…
All the recall talk of late gives me a chance to share one of the more hilariously intense stories I ever gleaned from a history book. So prepare, one and all, for a really basic (like, incredibly basic) history lesson…
Last week, before a few things happened on the county beat, Clark County Assessor Peter Van Nortwick sent me one of the finer emails I’ve ever received. He wanted to know if there are any ghost reports in the Columbian…
At Tuesday’s marathon commissioner meeting, it was easy to track the five people who testified in favor of hiring Don Benton to be the county’s director of environmental services. There was Chuck Miller, whose wife was hired by Commissioner David…
Clark County Commissioner David Madore wants to move public comment to the end of meetings, saying Wednesday that he wants county business put first. But back when Madore was a regular citizen who routinely attended Vancouver City Council meetings, he had a different…
This ad for a survival conference was in the online newsletter for Clark County employees today.
