All Politics is Local
“Dancing with the Local Stars” includes hot performance by fire marshal
"Dancing with the Local Stars" was Saturday, and before I get into who won and how much money was raised, you really need to see Vancouver Fire Marshal Heidi Scarpelli's entrance […]
Wanna leave a comment, write a Haiku
If you were thinking of leaving comments on Clark County's website regarding its comprehensive plan update, you'd have better luck dashing off a series of tweets. That's because the county placed […]
Vancouver Rotary going for the hotter sister?
An email from Fort Vancouver National Trust President Elson Strahan, in his role as president of the Rotary Club of Vancouver, has prompted a few raised eyebrows at City Hall. In the […]
Councilor Bill Turlay speaks for the trees
The Portland-based Intertwine Alliance recently had a feature headlined, "If Trees Could Speak," that highlighted what three communities are doing about urban forestry. The article included Vancouver and quoted Charles Ray, the […]
Mielke wants more car money, less training
The Board of Clark County Commissioners is at its rawest during “board time,” the weekly Kaffee Klatsch-esque meetings where a triumvirate of men resembling castoffs from a repertory theater production […]
Against the interchange before they were for it
Many politicians can't resist a good ribbon-cutting ceremony. Elected officials get to swoop in at the end of a major project and share the spotlight in the friendliest of settings. They […]
Rebuttals to the bridge statements
Yesterday I posted the pro and con statements for the third bridge that will be in the voters guide - but I didn't include the rebuttal statements. Of course there are […]
Yay? Nay? Third bridge statements submitted to election office
After all the hand-wringing about who was going to write the pro and con statements on the bridge advisory vote for the voters guide, the wait is over. Sure, the election […]
Forget a ‘meaningful life’; what about a ‘quality person?’
It’s been a little over a year, and Commissioner David Madore is still talking about what kind of a salary it takes to live a “meaningful” life. But now we […]
The price to pee privately in a public park
Scanning through city council emails the other day, this phrase caught my eye: "port-a-potty vigilantes." The line was in a memo to City Manager Eric Holmes from Julie Hannon, director of parks […]