Month: July 2011

Vancouver developer Elie Kassab petitioned the Vancouver City Council for a tax break on Monday, for his proposed apartments to be built on the site of downtown's Burgerville. In it, there […]

I thought I'd seen all the baseball-related emails sent by county officials, but came across a real gem on Monday as I was reviewing commissioners' correspondence, which was provided to […]

I thought I'd seen all the baseball-related emails sent by county officials, but came across a real gem on Monday as I was reviewing commissioners' correspondence, which was provided to […]

Well, well. I return from vacation only to find that there aren't enough county commissioners around for a quorum -- the National Association of Counties is having its annual conference […]

The Clark County Commissioners put a six-month moratorium on allowing people to grow medical marijuana gardens Tuesday morning. During their Wednesday board time, it was clear Commissioner Steve Stuart had been […]

Last week, we learned Battle Ground Deputy Mayor Phil Haberthur willingly attended the Britney Spears concert. Not only did he admit to going to Ms. Spears’ show, he confessed to […]

Our new transportation and environment reporter, the stellar Eric Florip (on Twitter at @col_enviro), hit up Tuesday's C-Tran meeting, where he found out that the letter writing over the light […]

Our new transportation and environment reporter, the stellar Eric Florip (on Twitter at @col_enviro), hit up Tuesday's C-Tran meeting, where he found out that the letter writing over the light […]

You may notice a few familiar faces the next time you're perusing The Columbian's homepage. An advertisement for your favorite Columbian bloggers is now appearing on the website: In case you having […]

We know the Columbia River Crossing is confusing. But we're not sure what happened last night when Vancouver Councilor Jeanne Stewart started asking about CRC topics that were covered in […]