Month: March 2012

Calls for a public vote on transit. Signs, billboards and heaps of newspaper coverage. A locally preferred alternative. Swirling debate over the future of transit. Clark County, meet Lane County, Ore. […]

Some jokes write themselves. Now, we at APIL appreciate those sworn to serve and protect so we would never make any cracks about police officers and pigs. Battle Ground City Councilor and […]

Of course your nerdy city government reporter subscribes to podcasts, including This American Life. This last Sunday's edition (which I of course didn't finish until today) is an excellent primer on […]

For a project like the CRC to go without a hitch would be "Disneyland," Mayor Tim Leavitt said last week. When The Columbian broke the story about the Coast Guard's concerns […]

As Clark County Commissioners keep churning through the development code book, updating, maintaining or eliminating rules and regs in a laborious process known as Retooling Our Code, they've finally reached […]

NOTE: This post is an update on this story. Sorry if you are offended by its lack of snark. I'll make up for it with my next post, I promise. The […]

Is this a dance move? Leavitt delivers his 2011 State of the City speech While it's not nearly as long a wait or as hotly anticipated as the season premiere of […]

I can't wait for baseball season. Not because I enjoy baseball. I enjoy the warm weather that comes with baseball season. Oh, and I enjoy the baseball-related tweets that Woodland councilman […]

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Community Mediation Services had a remarkably upbeat presentation for county commissioners this week. Maybe dealing with all those unhappy people helps with perspective? The two-decade old program was eliminated in late […]