This breakthrough solution was designed by two Portland Tri-Met veterans and hits a home run that gives all parties what they want and more for a tiny fraction of the failed CRC Light Rail Tolling project. The CRC bureaucracy is invited to compare this to their $160 million boondoggle too low.
COUV.COM is proud to present a new video series, "Portland Light Rail: Tracking the facts". In this series, we explore the 26 year history of Portland's highly criticized light rail system
The Washington state legislative special session that pitched itself into the midnight hours has ended. A little after 6:00 a.m. this morning an agreement on the budget was reached and ended the session. The budget passed the house by a 64-34 margin and passed the senate by a 44-2 vote. ...
While Washington State is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, transportation funding has remained relatively robust. Over the next eight years, though, existing transportation budgets will face a $1 billion shortfall, and new infrastructure could require between $10 billion and $30 billion in additional revenue. This was the mixed ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this interview here: Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna believes it’s important for the public to have access to information when it’s asked for. McKenna, who stopped by COUV.COM on June 16, said that type of transparency is a key component of his campaign. That ...
State Rep. Paul Harris stopped by US Digital on April 27 to give David Madore and couv.com viewers an update on the Washington state budget situation. Madore and Harris also touch on the governors’ endorsement of the truss bridge for the CRC project* and upcoming elections. Harris was also a ...
On March 31, state Rep. Paul Harris visited US Digital to have a video interview with David Madore. Click here to view the interview if it doesn’t appear above. See our continuing coverage of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project. Do you have information to share on the CRC? ...
Recent events in Japan have a lot of people thinking about the safety of nuclear power. Fortunately for those of us in the Pacific Northwest, nuclear power plants are in short supply. The closest nuclear power plant to Vancouver – and the only commercially operated one still running in the ...