On Tuesday, the 28th of November, 2017, at 10:00 AM there was a public hearing to complete the consideration of a request by the City of...

I have trouble with the concept of addiction. It may seem silly, but are we not all addicted to air, water, and food? Try to deprive...

We should all be afraid of the concept that “it can’t happen here.” The article link below is well written and spot on; I encourage you...

Today, Tuesday 31Oct2017, at 10:00 the Board of Cowlitz County Commissioners held a public hearing to discuss adopting boundary changes...

In this article from the Mises Institute we are presented with the Swiss solution to health care. Because Switzerland is a well managed...

In a recent letter to the editor for The Daily News, a Kalama City Councilman, specifically singled me out for some specious claims about...

Overwhelmingly, I believe, most of us want the same outcome, which can be summed up as safety and happiness for all. Where I typically...

The mayoral race in Kalama took a weird turn last night, Thursday 6 Oct 2017, when Candidate Tom Merz said he was suspending his campaign....

I was perusing some of my files and found this piece which I wrote in March of 2010. Seven years later, we seem to have learned nothing,...

The task of trying to arrange for a presentation from the Freedom Foundation to give us perspective on potentially opening to the public...

Here is my attempt to explain, with help from our Assessor, Terry McLaughlin, the property taxes in a qualitative way. Mistakes and...

In one of the Facebook threads, the question was asked about where county money is spent. If you click here, you will see the budget for...

The functional organization of Cowlitz County services and administration has been a constant topic of discussion since before I took...

A recent TDN guest editorial built on the concept “climate change is real” and that humans can play a strong hand in controlling climate...

Transparent operations are key to good government. Currently, the County negotiates with nine separate labor unions to arrive at...

I’m a bit pressed for time this morning, but it is worth setting the record straight in key areas. This morning, the TDN article,...

Click on this link for a reasonably thorough treatment of the issue of CO2 and AGW. I started grad school at UCSD some years after Roger...

If you'd like to read the plan submitted by the Cowlitz County Health & Human Services Departments, click here. This plan will be...

Yesterday I went for a bicycle ride. I started at my house in Kalama and wended my way to Willow Grove, looped the Island and headed...

A .1% sales tax collected on all taxable transactions in Cowlitz County was made into law by the Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) in...