Should Congress thwart Internet piracy even if it results in censorship?
Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are facing this question as they consider two bills intended to clamp down on the piracy of copyrighted material...
It’s fitting that the Vancouver City Council held an informal town hall meeting at Clark College at Columbia Tech Center Tuesday, because the event looked more like class registration day than an official City Council meeting. But that was the goal, as the council – unable to meet at its ...
Oregon Republican Party Chairman and potential 2014 Oregon gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley used to support the $10 billion* Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) – that is until he started looking at the details. Now he describes the CRC as the ultimate “talking frog” – kind of cool, but ...
For 125 years, the Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB) has pursued its primary purpose of educating and training the visually impaired. Today, learning to read Braille still goes hand-in-hand with regular school work, but training also includes developing daily living skills, computer skills, and job skills. In 1886, ...
Author Kathy Condon makes no apologies about being self-published. In fact, she’s proud of it. Her first book, It Doesn't Hurt to Ask, was chosen by USA Book News as Best Book Award finalist in its business category. This past summer, Condon released her second book . . .
On a frigid morning at the Vancouver Landing amphitheater there was crisp criticism of the current Columbia River Crossing Light project (CRC) from representatives of the Smarter Bridge Committee, a group that rejects the current CRC project as designed. Estimated to cost up to $10 billion* (including debt service), the ...
Motion control technology manufactured in Vancouver is a vital element that underwrites the success for SkyFuel Inc. SkyFuel is a technology developer that has created an innovative answer to concentrated solar power, including ReflecTech, a reflective material that is an alternative to heavy mirrors normally used in concentrated solar power. ...
The Smarter Bridge Committee is holding an informational event at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Vancouver Landing. The event will focus on a bridge that is right size, right price, right place. The 24-member committee has been meeting for several months, and member Sharon Nasset said members include elected officials. ...
After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012...
More than 800 high school students and adult volunteers representing 38 teams from Clark County and Portland packed the house at Evergreen High School Jan. 7 to celebrate the kickoff of the 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST, an acronym meaning “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,” is an ...
Maintaining current levels of emergency medical services in Clark County will require a much more efficient, system-wide way of doing business. That was the message Vancouver Fire Chief Joe Molina presented to the Vancouver City Council during a workshop Monday concerning a pending agreement between Emergency Medical Service (EMS) District ...
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