Prologue: My principal objective is to make the very most possible value of the landfill for the public, all 108,000 county residents. ...

The very first section of the Washington State Constitution: SECTION 1 POLITICAL POWER. All political power is inherent in the people,...

UPDATE: 20 Apr2020 After some amount of pressing, I was able to get the complaint form moved off of the County Website, or so I...

Some readers probably do not know about the monthly Kelso Longview Chamber Newsletter, so I present here. Even though it is now almost...

In my last post here I gave a limited accounting of an action taken by the BoCC, that action violating common sense and property rights. ...

Preface On 23December2019 I posted on my blog the resolution that the BoCC passed regarding the UGA/RTA (urban growth area/rural...

Tuesday, 17 December 2019, at the regular Tuesday hearing, the BoCC adopted the resolution below. Both Dennis Weber and Joe Gardner...

With good reason, some people avoid Facebook. I think the below posting might be of interest to some of those people. A day or so ago, I...

Recently Judy Baker posted on Facebook a Forbes article about a potential economic outcome of significance. (Judy, thank you.) That...

PROLOGUE: What is in our future if we don't fix government? Here is one likely answer. ============================ Part One: ...

Walter Williams. John Stossel.

To save you time, I go straight to the point, and offer backup material toward the bottom. Problem statement: The postmaster in Kalama...

The new Kalama River Road construction between I-5 and Haydu Park (inclusive) is well underway. At the county, we received, from a...

Our bond analysis continues with looking at the fourth published bond priority, “Large Repair Projects,” at a cost of $9.4 million before...

Our bond analysis continues with a look at the third bond priorities, “School Replacements.” To have the schools built now, we will be...

Our bond analysis continues with a look at the second bond priorities, “Safety and Security.” The total cost for this effort actually is...

The Longview Public Schools put out a four page well done pamphlet titled “Capital Bond Information.” It has all the right pictures and...

The Longview School Board has placed a bond measure on the November Ballot to fund various “educational” purposes. I’ll go over those...

On 5Jun2019, I wrote about a high-level principle of private property rights violated by a proposal to tax citizens for library services....

An article well worth the read. History provides us valuable lessons; "this time it's [not] different." Let me add: Economics and liberty...