Author: Erik Hidle
Swing vote Stuart
You may have read that Commissioners David Madore and Tom Mielke are at loggerheads over how late wineries can play music at their events and tastings. Madore says let 'em party […]
It’s a “meaningful” life
Tucked tightly into the rich, dense story mine that is the Clark County commissioners' weekly board time meeting was an out-of-place conversation about state legislators' compensation prompted by Commissioner David Madore. Here's […]
Is it just me, or did this block go downhill since we ran out of Lucky Lager?
Last week we reported on the transformation a gravel lot filled with garbage in downtown Vancouver into a better-named gravel lot where garbage gets picked up. The city block, now called […]
Commissioners talk and talk and talk on new river crossing and zombies
Earlier this week, commissioners talked next steps on transportation projects now that the Columbia River Crossing is dead. And that 25 minute discussion might be one of the most substantial and […]
Commissioners a treasure?
The winner of our caption contest received his prize this week: a lapel pin and a drawing of the three Clark County commissioners completed in five minutes between county meetings. The […]
Caption contest winners: job candidates, internal politics and Anthony Weiner
Last week we challenged our readers to come up with captions for this photo: And we had a great response! Unfortunately, Facebook ate a dozen of the comments. Kind of a bad […]
Pictures of a chimp, Bigfoot and two men singing a song: welcome to public comment
Clark County commissioners distributed a printout at Tuesday's meeting reminding folks of one specific rule during public hearings: no personal attacks. I don't know what they could be so worried about. Oh: Oh […]
Elected Husky says Ducks aren’t smart
Clark County Assessor Peter Van Nortwick took the time to respond to Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart's Facebook post regarding the NCAA's flimsy sanctions on Oregon football. But, sadly, his sentiments […]
Service announcement: comments lost
Several user comments were purged from the All Politics is Local blog over the past 24 hours. The best explanation I can give is that Facebook changed something and we had […]
Caption contest: Clark County’s triumvirate
Let's see what our readers can come up with. And yes, that is a cellular telephone the county's top three officials are trying to get working there. […]