December 6, 2011
Now, the work really begins
With the mandatory recount of the votes in the tight Washougal City Council Position No. 2 race finally complete, we can officially say the 2011 General Election has come to a close.
With the mandatory recount of the votes in the tight Washougal City Council Position No. 2 race finally complete, we can officially say the 2011 General Election has come to a close.
In January, Washington's minimum wage will crack the $9 mark and we will once again be No. 1 -- the state with the nation's highest minimum wage.
In just a few days, one of the largest volunteer efforts in Clark County will get underway. The Walk & Knock started in 1982, by two men who simply had a desire to help those in need, an idea about how to do it, and a serious drive to make it happen.
Delavar contributes to government's dysfunction In his Nov. 22 Post-Record guest column, Washougal City Councilman Michael Delavar says he thinks Washougal's City Council should "ignore the conclusions of the strategic planning team" because "much of the work done so far has been based on a precariously unscientific survey." This is his response to the strategic planning team's second progress report at the Nov. 14 council workshop.
As many of us will be enjoying spending time with our husbands, wives, children and grandchildren on Thursday, members of the Camas High School football team will be gathering with the people who many of the boys have described as their "second" family -- their teammates.
Entire County should vote on C-Tran tax increases There is no reason to be puzzled by the fact that voters approved the C-Tran Proposition 1 while favoring Initiative 1125 to limit tolling. If all voters where allowed to participate in the C-Tran vote, it's likely Proposition 1 would have failed. A successful C-Tran vote was made possible through a cynical gerrymander.
Why should the Washougal City Council ignore the conclusions of the Strategic Planning Team? Much of the work done so far has been based on a precariously unscientific survey. The Strategic Planning Team's survey results demonstrate the danger of relying upon data that may not be meaningful.
From special dinners and music performances to parades and school assemblies, during the past week many local residents either participated in or watched an event meant to honor our nation's military as part of Veterans Day.
Are school buses always needed? I did not walk 10 miles in 5 feet of snow to get to school, but I did walk a mile through the stubble of a newly cut buckwheat field, and I did walk a mile to high school. With a 10-subject curriculum, I carried lots of books, heavy books.
As profiled in an article in today's Post-Record, for the second time this year Washougal earned State audit results that were clean, and included no findings. This is very good news in the wake of a report issued in October 2009 that stated approximately $100,000 in city revenues were missing, a revelation that was followed by then-Mayor Stacee Sellers' abrupt resignation.
