The Building Industry Group is hosting its second annual Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Legislative Review Luncheon on Friday, Apr. 27 at Club Green Meadows. The event will be held upstairs at the club house located at 7703 NE 72nd Ave. in Vancouver. The doors open at 11:30 a.m. We are ...
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.
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 ...
In the final segment of our four-part “BPA, Another Way,” series, Clark County Today host David Madore wraps up his conversation with Washington State Rep. for District 18, Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama), and Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, about of the Bonneville Power Administration’s plans for constructing a ...
In part three of our four-part series, “BPA, Another Way,” host David Madore continues his conversation with Washington State Representative for District 18, Ed Orcutt (R – Kalama), and Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, about the realities of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) constructing a new 500,000 volt transmission line ...
In Part II of our “Another Way BPA” series, David Madore continues his conversation with Terry Constance and Washington State Representative for District 18, Ed Orcutt, (R – Kalama), about two different alternative routes that the Bonneville Power Administration could consider for its proposed 500 KV power line from Castle ...
In part one of an exclusive four-part interview, Clark County Today host David Madore speaks with guests Terry Constance, of Another Way BPA, and Washington State Rep. Ed Orcutt, 18th District, (R – Kalama), regarding their efforts to encourage the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to consider building a proposed 500 KV power ...
The Building Industry Group brought together Washington state legislators Sen. Joe Zarelli (R-Ridgefield), Rep. Ed Orcutt (R-Kalama), and freshman representatives Ann Rivers (R-La Center) and Paul Harris (R-Vancouver) to share their views on the recently completed legislative session. The crowd responded with enthusiastic applause when Zarelli shared his vision that ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this Q&A here: Attendees of the “Bridging the Gaps” event asked experts and officials questions based on their presentations. Timeline: Paul Guppy, Washington Policy Center 1:38 “If you’re an elected official and you don’t see a downside to supporting a light rail project or ...
Nearly one hundred people on Saturday gathered for the “Bridging the Gaps” event. The subject at hand was the much-debated Columbia River Crossing, a joint megaproject between the Oregon and Washington departments of transportation, designed to replace the existing I-5 bridge, improve miles of infrastructure and extend Portland’s light rail line into Clark County.