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Madore points fingers over Comp Plan
The Clark County council’s Wednesday board time featured a heated discussion of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan update and Councilor David Madore’s accusations that staff is attempting to hide information […]
Anti-pot ad’s message is hazy
A state Department of Health anti-marijuana advertising campaign backfired when people complained, thinking the ads were promoting the sale of pot. The ads, which say, “My teen would never smoke MARIJUANA […]
Don’t forget to vote in upcoming election
Here’s your friendly reminder that, in every Clark County election, policy decisions and elected officials are selected by a small minority of voters. Only 34.2 percent of Clark County’s 251,528 […]
One resolution hanging on for dear life
Clark County Councilor David Madore appears to have had a small victory, a rarity for the Republican councilor these days. It appears that at its first meeting of the year, Clark […]
Clark County Democrats seek new leader
The Clark County Democratic Central Committee is looking for a new leader after Chairwoman Deanna Pauli-Hammond stepped down earlier this month. Pauli-Hammond, who has held the position since 2014, announced her […]
Picking sides in the restroom debate
Co-written by reporters Amy Fischer and Kaitlin Gillespie. Vancouver City Councilors on Monday were ready to go to bat with state Legislators over two House bills and a Senate bill that […]
Prolific Facebook banning in question
I put out a crowd sourcing call on Twitter over the weekend asking readers to share what they believed was the post that got them banned from posting on Councilor David […]
Clark County could be testing ground for social media policy
As we often do here on All Politics is Local, we turn to the controversial subject of Clark County Councilor David Madore’s Facebook page. You know, the one that apparently isn’t […]
Look before you ‘lectioneer
Here’s your friendly reminder if you’re out campaigning, the Clark County Elections Office isn’t the place to do it. A door hanger encouraging voters to vote yes in Vancouver Public Schools’ […]
Morphing from citizen to city councilor
Sometimes the solutions to a city’s problems seem so glaringly simple. If only the government would do X or Y, everything would work out. Boom. Make it so. But that view […]