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 ...
Post updated Jan. 9, 2012 An angry email exchange last week between Vancouver City Council member Jeanne Stewart and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt has revealed simmering tensions on the council heading into key discussions about committee assignments. This is the time of year that the City Council decides which of ...
Approximately 700 hundred Portland and Vancouver high school students will brave the predawn darkness Saturday morning and descend upon Vancouver’s Evergreen High School with one thing in mind: building robots.
While Washington State is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, transportation funding has remained relatively robust. Over the next eight years, though, existing transportation budgets will face a $1 billion shortfall, and new infrastructure could require between $10 billion and $30 billion in additional revenue. This was the mixed ...