Saturday, Mitt Romney won the GOP caucuses in Washington. The former Massachusetts governor led throughout the day giving little hope to other candidates. In a statement issued by his campaign, Romney said, “I’m heartened to have won the Washington caucuses, and I thank the voters for their support.” Romney placed ...
OAKRIDGE, Ore. — Vancouver-based forensic accountant Tiffany Couch finished some Oregon number crunching. The City of Oakridge hired the high profile fraud investigator to get to the bottom of the city’s disappearing money. In July 2011, a discrepancy in the city budget – that could not be reconciled – had ...
During the citizen comments portion of the Monday, Feb. 13 city council meeting, Vancouver resident Steve Herman came forward as a self-confessed critique of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project. The back and forth sparring with Mayor Tim Leavitt caught on CVTV shows Herman accusing the mayor of ...
Proposals to extend gravel mining operations in and around the Evergreen Pit have residents of Vancouver’s Countryside Woods neighborhood worried. Situated on 19.42 acres just southwest of the intersection of NE 18th and NE 155th, the Evergreen Pit (formerly known as the Schmid Pit) began supplying the region with gravel ...
Despite being decried as an inefficient, multi-billion-dollar mess by a rapidly-increasing number of people, the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail tolling project is a “political necessity” to force light rail into the area, according to an Oregon Supreme Court decision. Suit was filed by the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods and ...
A recent announcement that the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project will be stalled until possibly 2014 has left some Vancouver business owners angry and scrambling to change their plans. Gillian Wallis, owner of the historic Lucky Lager Warehouse, was the victim of an 11th-hour decision to expand the ...
Despite months of frustrating attempts to gather clear, linear financial data on the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project, concerns raised by forensic accountant Tiffany Couch have no merit, according to a letter from Washington State Secretary of Transportation Paula Hammond.
The City of Vancouver is considering a new way to pay for transportation system upgrades, and is looking to Vancouver’s Neighborhood Traffic Safety Alliance for input and grassroots support. At the Neighborhood Traffic Safety Alliance (NTSA) meeting Feb. 21, Vancouver’s long-range planning manager, Matt Ransom, acquainted NTSA citizen volunteers with ...
House Republican leaders in Washington have proposed a budget that addresses a $1.6 billion shortfall by preserving essential services but offering no frills. The plan, which calls for $839.5 million in spending cuts, mandates monthly, two-day unpaid furloughs for state workers. It also cuts the basic health plan and reorganizes ...
Transportation officials should be able to provide much clearer answers about expenditures on the $10 billion* Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project than they do now, according to one frustrated Washington legislator. Speaking during an earlier meeting of the Washington State House Committee on Transportation in Olympia, Rep. Ed Orcutt ...
For some time now Cascade Policy Institute president John Charles has monitored transit oriented development, something he claims has “became sort of a religious icon for Portland.” Transit oriented development (TOD) is a mixed-use residential or commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport. Portland was an innovator in ...
Overestimated toll revenue projections. Outdated traffic data. Pie in the sky funding assumptions. Those elements – along with the unpalatable news that Washington State will be completely responsible for toll collection and bridge maintenance – are contained in a financial plan review of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project. ...
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