World renowned transportation architect Kevin Peterson says the manual for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is well written and well respected around the nation, but he has difficulty understanding why it was not followed to create the design for the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project. In ...
Two years ago the GOP Convention met at Prairie High School. In 2012 it was a packed ballroom at the Vancouver Hilton with overflow into adjacent rooms and spillways. The influx of first timers with seasoned conventioneers bogged down check-in, added to confusion, and the convention started almost an hour later than promoted, but once rolling it was difficult to stop.
Vancouver is pushing the same policies that have driven more than 1.6 million people out of California since the year 2000. The radical push for new hyper-density development in narrowly confined corridors is done all in the name of saving the planet, even though increasing density and congestion worsens pollution ...
Game is on for David Madore. Last night the CEO of U.S. Digital and COUV.COM announced his candidacy for county commissioner. The announcement was made on his Facebook page. The post reads: Running for County Commissioner! I just returned from the Republican Lincoln Day dinner where Lars Larson served MC ...
The Columbia River Crossing story of intrigue continues to reveal bizarre twists and turns that baffle common sense. For the first time in recent years, a legislative body was able to hear from sources other than the CRC yesterday. What was presented was nothing short of jaw dropping. To understand ...
The Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling backers continue to propagate known misleading statements exposed long ago as false. In an article just published in the Battle Ground Reflector ironically titled “Setting the records straight on the CRC,” Mayor Tim Leavitt continues to mislead citizens by making statements known to ...
Unfortunately, there’s more than one ‘CRC’ We are not alone. The light rail tolling disaster being forced on our community is only one of many across our nation. Monday night at the city council meeting, I listened to the nonsense of Mayor Tim Leavitt and two condescending council members ...
We were led to believe that the Coast Guard failed to inform the Columbia River Crossing that the 95 bridge height was unacceptable. We were told the Coast Guard just now changed their mind and that they were negligent to not inform the CRC long ago of the disastrous mistake ...
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 ...
In light of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “record of decision” approving the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project, COUV.COM revisits a Clark County Today interview with world-renowned designer and architect Kevin Peterson. This edited four-minute version of a six-part, 70-minute interview from ...
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 ...
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.
It has taken two years of construction, more than 160,000 man hours and 3.8 miles of shelf space, but the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District is ready for its next chapter as it debuts Vancouver’s newest library July 17. The new facility replaces the old main community library that has stood at the corner of Mill Plain and Fort Vancouver Way for nearly fifty years.
