Citizens standing in opposition to the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project (CRC) project had a recent opportunity to voice their opinions before Oregon officials. Addressing the Joint Committee on Legislative Oversight on the Columbia River Crossing during their Mar. 16 informational meeting, a series of community leaders and ...
Flying in the face of a $10 billion* price tag that planners have put on the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project is an Oregon Department of Transportation report that the two Interstate Bridges are good for another 60 years – and when their time ends a replacement bridge could ...
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 ...
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 ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this presentation here: Joe Cortright, president and principal economist for Impresa, a Portland consulting firm specializing in regional economic analysis, speaks at the “Bridging the Gaps” event in Vancouver on June 4. An overview of his remarks follow his bio. Here is Cortright’s bio ...
Tiffany Couch is a forensic accountant with the Acuity Group. David Madore, a private citizen, has asked her to take a look at Columbia River Crossing’s books. KPAM host Victoria Taft asks her what she’s uncovered. Couch reports having difficulty obtaining what she calls some of the basic accounting records ...
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.