In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plan to place a new, 70-mile power line through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature a number of different perspectives of people throughout the county who stand to be impacted. Ray Richards, a tree farmer and board member of the group A ...
The C-Tran board wants to make it perfectly clear that a sales tax measure it hopes to bring to voters this November to support high capacity transit in Clark County will not be a referendum on light rail. However, unless the board comes up with a back-up funding plan, a ...
As a forensic accountant who specializes in fraud investigations, Tiffany Couch’s job is to offer a neutral eye and follow the paper trail – often to surprising results. That was certainly true this fall when Couch’s firm, Acuity Group PLLC, became the target of a lawsuit filed by Portland firm ...
In our ongoing coverage of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans to place a power line that stretches 70 miles through Clark County, COUV.COM will feature perspectives from various county residents who could be affected. Today we talk with Ray Richards, a Vancouver resident whose family has owned a working tree ...
If concerns expressed over the Columbia River Crossing by a key Oregon legislative committee are any indication, the $10 billion* project could be a hard sell with lawmakers in Salem. That’s important to Clark County residents because the Oregon Legislature is expected to pick up $450 million of the project’s ...
The City of Vancouver has tabled plans to offer Frito-Lay a three-year water bill credit worth $585,000 at its Vancouver plant. The decision represents a reversal from only two weeks ago, when city staff recommended that the Vancouver City Council grant a three-year extension to a $1.4 million contract the ...
The finer details of what Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) might look like on Fourth Plain Boulevard have come into sharper focus in recent weeks – and with it have come questions from citizens about safety and the impact of a BRT line on the economic vitality of the Fourth Plain ...
The Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) has officially entered its “pre-construction” phase, even though planners have yet to secure a penny of the estimated $10 billion* they will need to fund capital costs. The announcement came Thursday during the final meeting of the CRC Project Sponsors Council, a ...
Vancouver attorney Michael Langsdorf drove his 2006 Lexus SUV up to a private railroad crossing just north of the Columbia River at 105th Avenue. He says he stopped, looked right, looked left, and “didn’t see any train at all.” The unlevel approach to the crossing, and possibily the early evening ...
According to Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, the only decision Clark County taxpayers will ever have on light rail is whether a sales tax is the right way to pay to run it. If they say no, he will find the money some other way. Leavitt made this point clear during ...
Emotions ran high in Battle Ground at a community meeting about placement of a new electrical transmission line the Bonneville Power Administration wants to build in Cowlitz and Clark Counties. The message at last week’s meeting was clear and was even delivered in a song: Go away, BPA. At issue ...
An often testy crowd of nearly 300 packed the Battle Ground Community Center last Thursday to oppose the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) plan to construct a 70-mile, 500-kilovolt transmission line through Clark County. The project has been a source of controversy ever since it was announced to the public in ...
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