Regional Issues 2017-2019

December 20, 2017

Clallam County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis Finally Does It

Clallam County Treasurer Selinda Barkhuis finally does it she is now out after months of claiming health issues.

No one can blame her, she has had to deal with the other county members of which made her job difficult.

Barkhuis was elected in 2010 over incumbent Judy Scott. Barkhuis defeated Scott 51 percent-49 percent then won re-election unopposed in 2014.

She had a history with many in the courthouse including :Mark Nichols but mostly with those in the commissioner?s office and wanted County Administrator Jim Jones out for multiple reasons and made multiple claims that the commissioners created a hostile and threatening work environment, and said Jones also created a hostile work environment.

December 20, 2017 7:07am

December 14, 2017

Board Member Has Enough Of Business As Usual

Port Angeles School Board Member Susan Shotthafer has had enough and resigned.

She had explained in her long multifaceted letter that she didn?t feel that her time and efforts were put to good use and that those higher on the power scale, my words were and are power hungry idiots.

The issue was somewhat quiet for weeks due to the Board rules, rules that are similar to the county?s ?quorum? rules and issues having to wait until the next meeting.

Those mandated rules were and are part of the problem with the whole school board process, it slows things up but I suppose it makes individual members like Sarah Methner and Doctor Quack Josh Jones feel important but others like Shothaffer feel as those they are banging their heads out of frustration.

She was the odd ball on many votes but the odd ball term doesn?t mean she herself was an odd ball only that she was not a go along get along liberal loon offering every loony program on the planet.

She was against the contraceptives handouts in our school due to risk of some cancers,
against how capital improvements were handled and rightly thought that welfare programs only hurt the family and the over all way the Washington State School Directors? Association works to stifle free speech.

The Port Angeles School District like others is trying to get and keep ?God? out of our schools but look how well that has worked in today?s society.

December 14, 2017

December 8, 2017

Port Angeles City Council Obeys The Voters

Nearly 60% of the voters opposed a plan by the city council to add fluoride to the water supply and the voters as it should be won the day.

The Port Angeles City Council will obey the will of the voters.

The city had ceased adding the harmful chemical August 2016 after the council voted 4-3 to stop the brain dead policy.

Many like Councilman Lee Whetham are elated and said, ?I would hope that the rest of my fellow council members will support the majority of the voters.?

Many health care providers, however, have supported water fluoridation as a way to help prevent dental disease while others have said fluoride is harmful to people and the environment.

Some such as Cheri Kidd are whining that adding fluoride to the water supply was the only way citizens receive the benefits of the product and state, ?many of our children come to school, don?t brush their teeth, aren?t taught good personal hygiene.

Perhaps Kidd should just worry about mothering her own children and also stop encouraging undesirables to come to Port Angeles.

Other Member have said that this was not and issue that should be decided by the council but a higher body of government such as The State of Washington public health.?

That is where it should be, along with smaller government lower taxes and reduced spending all together.

December 8, 2017 8:10am

November 28, 2017

Pretty New Schools Will Cost Hundreds Of Millions

The Port Angeles School District is at it again and like most government entities, is out for your money and want to add a levy to the ballot.

This is going to be way too expensive.

Superintendent Marc Jackson admitted that this attempt is because the voters rejected in the $98.25 million bond in 2015, thus he is back at it again.

The whopping $2.47 per $1,000 valuation per homeowner of a $200,000 home would thus cost $494 a year.

The board would have to approve the resolution by Dec. 15 to place the levy on the February ballot. What are the odds that won?t happen?and what are the odds that they won?t yet want more?

The district is already looking forward to asking your for your wallet again in 2024 for yet another levy to replace Franklin and at a later date, 2030, to replace Hamilton Elementary School and The High School.

All of this will come due folks, roads, bridges, schools, defense, federal infrastructure of which they will raise your gas tax for all of this, while at the federal level, they are cutting taxes. That?s all fine and dandy but there is only so much money.

November 28, 2017 7:08am

November 20, 2017

Suicide On The Rise In Port Angeles

Teen suicide is on the rise in fact all suicide is, reason, social media.

I can not add much more than what the experts have already well documented. These people, mostly the young, because that is what we are talking about locally now because of the most recent tragedy, are in fact most at risk, they have been trained to have no other life other than spending it on their devices, most hand held.

They don?t engage in any type of exercise, the schools don?t encourage activity like they used to?for a variety of reasons, they let other people get to them to the point of causing despair in their lives, but as I have always said, doing well is always the best revenge, people only act out when it is [they] feeling like sad and lonely losers.

I have always advocated to use what ever pent up anger and frustration others may cause to your best advantage, burn it enjoying physical activities, work many hours, make a lot of money, do well, let others sit around and stew in their own juices, look at how they live, are they any better off than you, probably not, and if they are financially, then they must be unhappy in other parts of their lives if they spend it online.

Yes I take my own advice, I [barely] have time to maintain this web site, it started out and still is, a pastime hobby that has been pretty much nothing more than a self education device of which those also my age did not have years ago and most my age still don?t unless they are, as I say, sad sorry and perpetually unemployed.

November 20, 2017 6:56am

November 13, 2017

The Port Angeles City Council Will Be More Loonier

The Port Angeles City Council, with more loony liberals on the way, will discuss the banning of plastic bags within the city limits?

Now this will be a real ban and not just a sociopath?s claims of a banning?

With the election of Kate Dexter, of whom I had warned was the looniest to have ever served on the city council and perhaps in the human race, together with Sissi Bruch whom I am sure is also supported by the newbies, will as Dan Gase said, ?create a very controversial issue in the community.?

This site actually supports not using plastic but it should be voluntary, not another law to make the socialists feel better, as it is, they apparently didn?t learn much in Chicago style schooling when it comes to other issues including freedom of speech?

Socialists want not only to instill more laws into communities including banning simple noise but speech as well but good luck, with both.

The socialist loons point to other liberal areas of the state for their argument pertaining to the bag ban and this site can not argue with that logic. Many liberal areas have already placed restrictions on plastic.

This site had said before the recent election that men don?t vote and that will be the reason for liberal crazies like Sissi Bruch and Kate Dexter to get their way.

Your own fault guys, if the liberal females don?t get their way they will throw a tantrum over simple name calling then lie in an attempt to get their way in the way of revenge but luckily the system has safeguards and rule of law to prohibit claims by the true mentally ill.

Those wanting to move Port Angeles forward and complaining about it staying a nowhere town are somewhat right but with the advent of the new industries and the banning the bags would perhaps help the area remain at least somewhat of a, timber town.

Cherie Kidd is actually on the right side this time in opposing the ban calling it the ?heavy hammer of the law.?

In the end this site dislikes plastic bags, they [are] an issue for the environment, one solution without going to the bring your own bag or an outright ban is to make them out of a biodegradable material, perhaps a combination of paper and a food starch.

November 14, 2017 7:30am

November 9, 2017

Jefferson County Smarter Than Clallam

Scott T Collins Dot Com as accurate as ever, the local results are as this site had foreseen if not forewarned, voters living in Jefferson County however are not as liberal at handing themselves a tax increase as are the idiots who live in Clallam County who think that someone else will pay for their wish list.

From the outdated local swimming pool to the juvenile delinquents, all of that money has to come from somewhere then you have the case of Kate Dexter who is the biggest idiot to have ever been elected in Clallam County including, Cherie Kidd.

Now that the officials see that voters are willing to cut their own throats they will be back once again for school renovations which will result in tens of millions in maintenance costs.

The next stop for the money grubbers, high property taxes in 2018...

November 9, 2017 8:33am

October 26, 2017

The Port Angeles City Council Must Be Reading Scott?s World?

City Manager Dan McKeen told the seven member council in a budget workshop Tuesday that ?the total budget is actually 3.4 percent less than the amended 2017 budget? and that "the 2017 amended budget that we have this year is actually about 16½ percent less than the actual 2016 budget.?

The total budget is the sum of a $98.61 million operating budget and the $19.81 million proposed general fund budget for 2018 is balanced through the planned use of $542,100 in reserves.

Lower cost health care plans for city workers have helped keep the budget and it?s forecasts low, as is usually the case, the largest cost to governments is salaries, wages and benefits which are almost 75 percent of just about any budget

The sale of the old Nippon Paper mill to McKinley Paper Co. put a damper on revenues but the city heads seem to be learning from the past and perhaps this site that good times do not last forever and slow and steady is usually the best option. Save for raining days...

The Mill, as McKinley, will reopen December 2018 this time making containerboard from recycled cardboard. The no matter how it is operated or by whom, it is the largest power customer and contributes to almost half of its total utility tax revenue.

The proposed budget however includes the allowed 1 percent property tax increase.

Public hearings on the property tax ordinance are planned for Nov. 7 and Nov. 21 and my guess is it will pass, most tax increases do.

October 26, 2017 7:09am

October 16, 2017

Mirror Mirror, Kate Dexter The Nuttiest Of Them All

Kate Dexter, the most loony of the candidates, wants to ban your plastic bags and make you all drive little weenie Honda Elements

Kevin Berglund, Dexter?s opponent in the race for City Council Position 4, has the right approach and would not seek a ban on plastic bags and my guess is chooses humans over dogs.

The two face off in the November election and Dexter may have the edge considering all of the loonies moving to the area that choose dogs over kids and human interactions, banning speech over the First Amendment and apparently running around like little nut people stirring up trouble in local neighborhoods.

Berglund has taken the stance that the local mills should produce paper bags and this site agrees, otherwise, as he said, it all has to do with ?personal freedom.?

Former Peninsula College Vice President and screw loose Paula Doherty seems to have started the controversy along with her cohort and perhaps mental patient ex commissioner Mike Doherty.

All other candidates think that simply being responsible over an all out ban is the right move.

Mike Doherty, no surprise, is also a climate action loon and like Dexter wants a plan for Global Warming in Port Angeles, really, Port Angeles?

Karen Dexter wants the local City Council to address ?global warming? on the, local level.

Be careful Port Angeles, all of this warming will have the town washing into the sea by, well lets see, the year 2279...

October 16, 2017

October 6, 2017

City Council As Loony Liberal As County Commissioners

The Wacky Body known as The Port Angeles City Council once again has no qualms about spending your hard earned money on liberal social programs, anyone defending the county commissioners or the council should be ran out of town and back to the city of which they crawl, the city also ran by liberal lunatics.

The 5-0 vote taken by the council will raise all of your taxes a whopping 1 percent which means a $1 million in new sales taxes for Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services

The good news is the public will get a chance to vote on the loony proposal Nov. 7 in the general election but as clearly demonstrated over and over by this site, which does not bluff or hurl around unsubstantiated claims like a liberal newbie, will open up their wallets in support of this new boondoggle now that times are somewhat, though temporarily, good.

As also demonstrated over and over, this site is not strict down conservative party lines and some would consider it somewhat liberal on some issues but if you build it they will come. The more programs offered the more will take advantage and not help themselves.

The more programs offered to the unfortunate the more problems are created as is now the case in Seattle who have open their hearts to any one claiming to be needy and now thousands are sleeping all over the highways due to a housing crisis.

The voted on proposal would cost the average county citizen between $10 and $12 per year,

The Ding Bat Deputy Mayor, Cherie Kidd, who wants taxpayers to fund her social programs, should open her home and wallet to all of those in need who will now flood to Port Angeles which will result in keeping it nothing more than a welfare town.

October 6, 2017 8:09am

October 2, 2017

Grow Your Own

Washington State lawmakers are looking at changing the grow your own policy.

Washington is the only state that forbids growing your own.

Supporters of the grow your own point to the ease and legality of growing other vegetation and even home brewing as examples of ?if they can, why can?t we?

Those weed enthusiasts want the measures and want to ?seize the chance,? even if the home growing proposals aren?t perfect.

Supporter just want to get their foot in the door.

Since Trump was elected the feds have dampened the legalization supporters hopes and even those who have long supported the legalization want to wait until the current administration is out of office.

In current time there are many restrictions including requiring that all plants to be entered into the state?s traceability system and making sure homegrown weed isn?t being sold.

Most law enforcement officials oppose the home growing option due to the obvious of robbery and minors obtaining the weed but the market is now so flooded with the product the ease of weed is certainly out there.

October 2, 2017 9:09am

September 21, 2017

The Port Angeles City Council Finally Cuts Spending

The Port Angeles City Council finally cut spending but only out of necessity, loss of revenue.

Acting Finance Director Tess Agesson said the budget amendment was ?just the first step in the process and that when we get into 2018, we?ll have more items to discuss.?

The Council voted 6-0 Tuesday to approve the $373,500 in cuts which are only a one time event due to the sale of the Nippon paper mill to McKinley Paper.

City Manager Dan McKeen was forced to implement the cuts because until the mill reopens it will cost the $315,500 in revenue this year and another $440,000 in 2018.

The city had asked each department to identify onetime savings, delays in rehiring, the purchasing of vehicles and even travel and training and simple office supplies were curtailed to help balance the 2018 budget though McKeen admits that those cuts were not sustainable.

September 21, 2017 7:09am

September 11, 2017

Pot Use And Abuse Not On Increase

New analysis after three years of legal sales show that youth?s pot use and abuse treatment admissions have not increased in Washington since marijuana was legalized in fact pot use by students in all four grade levels was stable or has fallen slightly since I-502 was enacted a WSIPP report said.

Details about jobs and wages in the pot industry were also released and showed 6,227 full-time jobs, at an hourly wage of $16.45 but the median wage was $13.44.

Licensed pot businesses averaged nine full-time employees.

As for adult use, people living in counties with higher levels of legal sales were more likely to consume pot and do so more frequently.

These analyses comes with the cautionary note that the reports are considered preliminary.

September 11, 2017 7:09am

September 5, 2017

Seattle?s Lower Income Earners

Seattle is not as rich as advertised, 51 percent of tax filers had an adjusted gross income of less than $50,000 and more than half of those make less than $25,000.

The numbers come from a new analysis of IRS data by the Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI), which show however that most are single filers which are two thirds of the population.

Seniors and college students are the scapegoats for the numbers but a huge number are up against Seattle?s high cost of living on not much money.

EOI?s reason for the efforts is that Washington?s tax system relies on sales taxes, which is ranked as having the most regressive taxes in the nation not to mention the new income taxes.

September 5, 2017 7:09am

August 24, 2017

Liberal Loons Want More Low Life Drug Addicts

Once again the liberal loons are whining about the shortage affordable housing in Clallam County..

This is a vicious circle my friends, the more welfare the region offers the more low lives and drug addicts will be invited into the area.

The way to not be short of affordable housing is to not have any at all and the same low lives and drug addicts will not feel the desire to come and piss all over our streets like they do in San Francisco.

Those whining about children not having a home should think then about why they came to the area the in the first place.

Apparently there are many with rent vouchers for $1,100 and $1,700 but can?t find places to rent because landlords are not taking vouchers which of course is out prerogative many it?s out party so you can cry if you want to?

Now Mike Chapman, liberal loon, who can seem to decide what picket fence he likes to sit on, think the problems is that the housing market has gotten ahead of wages in Clallam County which leads one to wonder what he means, that the liberals should now control rent and landlord and wages to keep his drug addicts happy?

Another issue regarding housing and low rent apartments is that the city needs to make infrastructure investments such as storm water infrastructure that would make it easier for properties to ?plug into? existing infrastructure. ?Our Urban Growth Area needs a great deal of infrastructure improvements if we want to see development in the region which many don?t and like Port Angeles just the way it is, low in low lives.

August 24, 2017 8:09am

August 15, 2017

Clallam County Salaries And Benefits Need Further Cuts

Clallam County is forced once again to spend $1.5 million in reserves due to over spending?

The situation would have been much worse if it wasn?t for the increase in tax revenue, building permits and park fees etc?

Clallam administrator Jim Jones was at least honest enough to admit yesterday that other revenue is lagging however and that he miscalculated again and misjudged the wild over spending.

Jones also said that the excessive spending for salaries and benefits is down but not enough and certainly more needs to be done to cut considering most of the budget is for unnecessary salaries and benefits and Jones admits that costs are ?going to pick up a little bit, in particular contracted services.?

August 15, 2017 10:06am

August 9, 2017

Oh boy, times are good, people are in a good mood, they passed a tax to fix the roads that really did need fixing and now, once again the donut eating and money wasters want to soak you for even more money for yet another worthless project?

On Nov. 7 voters will be asked to dig into their wallets again to pay to keep the outdated William Shore Memorial Pool open?

Official have just passed to increase their spending power by $3.5 million to fund a $12 million renovation of the pool facility which is 60 years old.

If the voters are as stupid as they were to voter for the roads tax it will cost them another 6 cents per $1,000 of valuation for the levy funded portion of the project.

Not a surprise that most if not all of the local donut eater are for the money waster including those considered republicans.

The actual numbers are sketchy but the facility seems to not be well used with visitors.

Voters are in a good mood right now but wait until the economy slows an so does the income in the coming months and then once again the mood will shift as if as you the have learned nothing,

August 9,, 2017 8:06am

July 14, 2017

CyberStalking Law Challenged

Richard Lee Rynearson III, a retired Air Force major, has filed a lawsuit against Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Kitsap County Prosecutor Tina Robinson in U.S. District Court on Tuesday using his free speech rights to publish his hateful and unnecessary speech and faces up to a year in jail for repeatedly making online posts that criticize a community activist.

His lawyer is asking how can it possibly be constitutional to ban mean speech online saying ?if someone is appalled by a local official and wants to embarrass them by posting things online, that?s a crime??

The key here might be ?local public official? which is different than a private citizen.

Rynearson, of Bainbridge Island, has repeatedly written posts that criticize a Clarence Moriwaki who founded a memorial there to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

After Moriwaki obtained a temporary restraining order and filed a police report last spring, saying he was being harassed by incessant text messages and Facebook posts, investigators recommended that Rynearson be charged with cyberstalking.

?He just won?t leave me alone,? Moriwaki said Wednesday. ?I told him to stop posting about me, to stop contacting me, and he won?t. He?s a classic cyber bully.?

Washington?s cyberstalking law, passed in 2004, makes it illegal to send electronic communications repeatedly or anonymously with an intent to ?harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass? someone, whether the message is sent directly to the target or to someone else.

Supporters of such laws say they?re needed to cut down on cyber bullying.

The guilty party, this low life Rynearson, who seems to not have much of a life, has took the page down and has ceased criticizing Moriwaki in response to the temporary restraining order.

To post unsubstantiated material online is also subject to libel slander and defamation laws if not removed once an objection to the material has been raised.

July 14, 2017 7:10am

July 7, 2017

Port Angeles Attorney And Clallam County Prosecutor Mark Nichols

Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols admits that he told fellow a employee that he ?would be interested in a romantic relationship? with her but denied allegations of wrongdoing and denies that he sexually harassed or retaliated against a former office manager.

Nichols further admits that he told a Tina Hendrickson, that he ?would be interested in a romantic relationship? with her but denies her other allegations.

A report exposes that Nichols likely ?made overtures of romantic interest to a Ms. Hendrickson for a period of several months in 2015, that he occasionally made indirect actions thereafter that Ms. Hendrickson could reasonably interpret as suggesting a continued romantic interest, and that some of Mr. Nichols? attention was likely unwelcome to Ms. Hendrickson, but that Mr. Nichols did not create an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment for Ms. Hendrickson.?

In the same report however it said that Nichols ?did not make submission to any of his romantic advances a condition of Ms. Hendrickson?s employment, nor did he use Ms. Hendrickson?s submission to or rejection of any of his romantic advances a basis for any decisions affecting her employment.?

The two has because close friends and worked together for about ten years.

After a brief stint as the county hearing examiner, Nichols was elected to the prosecuting attorney post in November 2014, with Hendrickson helping to manage the campaign.

This site and it?s contributors did not vote for Nichols?

Ms. Hendrickson it is described as a scorned friend if not lover...

Hendrickson has claimed that Nichols spent most of the day in her office, that he professed his deep love for her and that he fantasized about her sexually?

Hendrickson?s lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma by Gig Harbor attorney Terry Venneberg.

Legal fees for Nichols? defense are being covered by a Washington Counties Risk Pool liability policy.

Nichols also was singled out prior in a 2009 suit, four employees had claimed age and disability discrimination and allegations of treating the plaintiffs and other women in a ?hostile, demeaning and condescending manner.?

That was covered by a $1.5 million settlement agreement which this site thinks is totally wrong, government officials have way too many benefits as it is. If and when it is found in this or any case that the allegations are true then the defendant should pay his or her own legal costs.

July 7, 2017 7:19am

June 29, 2017

Port Angeles City Council Hopefuls Debate

The candidates debated many issues including annexing Gales Addition, water, and a side note was revealed, Marolee Smith Does not say the Pledge Of Allegiance.

The liberal also wants to the annexation because ?I think we should annex in all directions because we need a larger city base.?

Water was a big issue in which Jim Moran said that is was among the city?s biggest issues. Port Angeles was promised that is would pay no more than any other citizen [across the country] for the deconstruction of the dams.

The National Park Service will be sued for not providing information about the Elwha River surface water intake treatment facilities that will take $50 million to repair.

Dan Gase was absolutely right to expose Smith for not saying the pledge of Allegiance.

All candidates had their hand over their hearts and recited the Pledge of Allegiance but not Smith who said it is her First Amendment right and she hasn?t pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States for years.

Jim Moran, a Vietnam War veteran, on the other hand said he feels strongly about saying the Pledge of Allegiance and finishing by saying that he ?was proud to serve my country, and I think the Pledge of Allegiance is an indication of my commitment to my country.?

Apparently she seems to have an issue with the American Flag?

corruption and shutting down debate such as recently depicted on this site regarding events concerning the Port Angeles School Board of which just paid a heavy price for exercising their subsequently hollow power play after messing with the wrong person.

June 29, 2017 1:09pm

June 22, 2017

The Port Angeles City Council has tossed an old ethics code to apparently guard against another fiasco like they had with a former council member.

I was contacted by a writer journalist a year ago regarding this ongoing behavior that many in the area not only considered annoying but disturbing especially coming from an elected official.

Personally this site never had an issue with Mania either before during or after his role in the community but apparently he had confrontations with many in the area which included sending out many emails some even to this site of which I disclosed to an Oregon journalist researching the tactics used in a blog published from Oregon of which the ex council member bad mouths many in the Port Angeles area, those who he is still apparently mad at.

Also, apparently, there are many that have felt the wrath of being on the wrong side of the ex council member?s views, even those that are on the liberal left where he resides.

This new ordinance will not only prohibit council members from conflicts of interest, including receiving special privileges and gifts but the state Code of Ethics for municipal officials will have them also undergoing annual ethics training.

The old code was adopted after former county Democratic Party Vice Chair Jack Slowriver had confrontations with the then current councilman who, it was reported, was harassing Slowriver over a failure to support his wife for Clallam County commissioner.

Others such as Councilwoman Brooke Nelson and Cheri Kidd also had run ins with Mania.

This site never posted much about the council shenanigans or had an issue with Mania, just simply did not support his wife because this site leans republican.

Ethics codes however are not about being overly passionate about issues but about small town corruption and shutting down debate such as recently depicted on this site regarding events concerning the Port Angeles School Board of which just paid a heavy price for exercising their subsequently hollow power play after messing with the wrong person.

June 22, 2017 7:39am

June 12, 2017

Port Angeles School Board Approves Board Run Healthcare Leaving A Quack In Charge

The School Board on Thursday voted to put the district in charge of your child? health care which should scare all of you considering the recent behavior of Doctor Josh Jones.

The proposed health center at Port Angeles High School has earned the approval of the Port Angeles School District board of directors.

The effort has been led by the very liberal Port Angeles Citizen Action Network.

The issue resulted in a packed house with the majority speaking against the effort with many expressing concerns about moral issues surrounding contraceptives and abortion referrals rightly telling board members their support for the health center was the same as supporting the ?modern Holocaust.?

Many others correctly said the health center would take healthcare away from the parents. Under liberal state law, minors can see doctors for contraceptives and abortion referrals without even seeking or having consent from their parents

Very few parent spoke in support of the issue.

Vice President Sarah Methner said she ?absolutely supports? the health center and called the idea of not approving the health center ?absolutely ludicrous.?

No, Ms, Methner, you are ?absolutely ludicrous.? But then what can one expect from someone who stays home to watch over her out of control dog all day?

President Dr. Josh Jones said that because he was a doctor, he had a conflict of interest on the issue but of course voted to approve the issue which would bring in more funds for the local healthcare system.

These are the same board members mind you that are potted plants on the issue of slandering local individuals with this brain dead idiot Sarah Methner leading the way but then what can you expect from someone who is married to an insurance salesman.

This was the case in which the superintendent hurled outrageous claims that a voter was harassing the family of a board member without any proof what so ever and used tax payer funds to do so and in which the board president Doctor Jones wanted ?law enforcement notified? simply because a constituent called him a Quack.

Sarah Methner is only good for running her mouth and sitting there with her thumb up her ass.

June 12, 2017 7:09am

June 1, 2017

Forks Police Officer Back On Leave For Rape Allegations

A Forks Police Officer, who is just back to work after being placed on leave after a officer involved shooting at Lake Pleasant Mobile Home and RV Park in November, is now back on leave for an FBI investigating for allegations of rape by a local women and apparent friend of the accused.

Officer Michael Gentry has been placed paid administrative leave while local Clallam County Sheriff?s Office investigated two rape allegations against him but now the FBI has taken control of the situation my guess is to ensure justice is done and not left up to local investigators.

Mike Gentry, according to statements, is also accused of being an intimidating figure during past events not including the shooting..

Apparently the woman filed for a protection order but the court, the judge found that that she did not have enough evidence to support her claims however.

June 1, 2017 8:07am

May 1, 2017

Governor Inslee has called the legislature back and the liberals are whining yet again and about what else, having to work, perhaps they need a pair of those pre muddied jeans from Nordstroms, there has been a special session every year since 2010.

But poor little liberal babies Chapman, Tharinger and Van De Wage are used to their pussy jobs in Clallam County where they would shut down debate and liberal loons would kiss their feet.

Lawmakers must comply with a 2012 state Supreme Court ruling that they must meet the state?s constitutional requirement to fully fund the state?s basic education system. While the state has made progress since the original ruling, the biggest piece remaining of the court order is figuring out how much the state must provide for teacher salaries.

School districts currently pay a big chunk of those salaries with local property tax levies of which this site has always advocated voting against to starve the district it?s liberal way of life. Among the differences between the budgets put forth by both chambers is how they address the local property tax levies.

Unlike the Senate plan, which would replace local school levies with a statewide uniform rate earmarked for schools, the House plan would lower the local levy rate but not eliminate them completely. The two-year plan put forth by the House also seeks about $3 billion in taxes that the full chamber has not voted on, including a new capital gains tax.

Republicans have said they can?t negotiate the budget until House Democrats pass that revenue. Both chambers passed their respective underlying spending plans last month, but both sides have been accusing the other of not passing all of the bills needed to balance out their proposals.

May 1, 2017

April 3, 2017

Port Angeles Doctor And School Board Quack Josh Jones Busted For Wasting Taxpayer Funds

Once again the district has been revealed as being the most uneducated perhaps in the country but then I have not lived everywhere.

On Thursday March 30, 2017 a “cease and desist” letter was sent from the district’s legal council warning of “harassment” if a voter continued to inquire into the incompetence and quackery distributed by the likes of members like Doctor Josh Jones.

Doctor Duck is now quacking that he is being “harassed” over a phone call and email of which may have been only a bit critical of his abilities as a school board member and is now, like every other limp minded liberal, whining and crying harassment because his poor little cup cake baby feeling are hurt.…

This issue stems from the illegal bus stop in the 1400 block of W 10 St of which many have filed complaints and of which the district seemed too inept and unwilling to resolve.

A voter simply wanted more answers regarding busing and other general issues as a whole but the district seems to think each citizen is allowed only one question per lifetime.

What the taxpayers should be concerned with is the false claims toward a constituent who simply wanted answers, is that the district will now unnecessarily and perhaps illegally, pass down these costs to you for the legal actions taken to shut down simple inquiries and freedom of speech.

Not only have many in the chain of command refused to answer questions which I am sure they too will use the old liberal stand by that it was “rude” “forceful” “offensive” none of which, by the way, are legally actionable and part of everyday life, there is no constitutional right to be immune from being “offended” only to be protected by a “pattern of unlawful behavior” “designed to alarm or annoy” or much worse, a real threat but now, to shut down any additional questioning, it’s the complainants that are in fact harassed.

Doctor Duck wanted the job of school board member in fact he is the president of the board and by policy, the only one allowed to reply to constituents.

It’s perks however do not include using the district’s law firm to throw around personal harassment claims born out of a voice mail that simply hurt his little feelings, a voice mail that he claims was listened to by his wife and kids and of which he himself admitted in a subsequent email was only “borderline offensive” and in fact only simply questioned his abilities and lack of responsiveness, a voice mail stern yet benign and certainly not anything any elected official has not heard before and no where near anything criminal or even obscene.

Doctor Duck is obviously used to his like minded liberal debate classes where language that they don’t agree with is quashed.

Four inquisitive emails were sent, three to all members, all professional in nature and documented including the last email 3/9 to inform them that the issue at hand had been resolved with Debra Groff at dispatch.

Voters still had further questions that went unanswered and on 3/27 replied to an email that Jones had sent in which he had “welcomed” further communication by saying “to contact him at his email account,” the same email in which he admitted that the phone call was only “borderline offensive.”

During this time period, only one phone call had been placed to the provided 797-1844

Nether Jones, superintendent Marc Jackson or Perkins Coie, the firm that sent the defamatory notice full of unsubstantiated allegations that could never be proven in a court of law, will be able to provide any evidence to corroborate their taxpayer funded false claims of which they all could face misconduct if not criminal charges.

The attorney, Valerie Hughes, now has a complaint filed against her at the WSBA.

If the superintendent and remaining board members choose not to act and engage in a cover up, they too will also be defending against ethics charges.

April 3, 2017 7:03am

March 24, 2017

The GOP Budget, Good Or Bad??

Just as this site does on the national level both left and right are held accountable.

Washington State Senate Republicans advocate a large $1.8 billion toward education, paid for, in part, by a statewide property tax that ultimately would replace local district levies.

A bad idea for those of us that think locals should control how and where their tax dollars are spent. The good news however is that the GOP [say] their budgets cuts the budget.

House Democrats have yet to release their budget plan next week.

The Legislature albeit was forced into this because of a horrendous decision by the State Supreme Court mandates after it realized that voters did not vote [for] levies to pay for teacher and school staff salaries.

Some areas might actually see ad decease in property taxes Clallam County lets hope is one of them?

One budget proposes a raise in for all state agency employees, including those in higher education costing the state about $90 million over the next two years.

Other departments receiving a large pay increase are corrections employers and State Patrol officers are fully funded as negotiated with the governor?s office, at a cost of about $79 million over the next two years and fully funds health benefits for state employees at a cost of $18 million over the next two years.

March 24, 2017 7:18am

March 2, 2017

Karen J. Ross Port Angeles Runs Transportation Department Into The Ditch

The Port Angeles School District as I mentioned in a prior post, is being governed by either the uneducated, the willfully ignorant, the just plain ignorant or pathological liars.

Ms. Ross, not known for her intellect, which seems to be a family trait that continues to be passed down, not only may have committed insubordination but because she has refused to reply via email may also, not unlike the local Sheriff’s Department, be guilty of cooking the books.

Ms. Ross is using the neighborhood to skirt state laws RCW28A.160.117 and RCW28A.160.160.

Apparently there has been ongoing issues with a bus stop in the middle of a quiet west Port Angeles neighborhood in which parents are either being encouraged, or because of pure ineptness by the district, allowed to trespass and cause property damage.

There are no paved sidewalks in the area, those using the bus are forced to use private property for the district’s personal use sometimes standing in the middle of concrete driveways in which homeowners are then forced to honk their horns in the ears of babies in their strollers in order to obtain access to their own property.

On February 28, 2017, the superintendent responded to questions put to him regarding the issues Ms. Ross has created for the district and showed no education on the issues either because he failed to do the proper investigation or because Ms. Ross had lied to him which could have resulted in creating an act of insubordination.

The questions put to the so called superintendent were met with tens of “I don’t know.”

Ms. Ross also lied to her superior in stating that there is only “one car” waiting and two little angels that exit the bus and are not causing an issue when in fact the situation changes day to day week to week year to year and many vehicles come to the neighborhood which has forced many homeowners to file complaints.

This bus stop is not more than three blocks from Hamilton School and there are no children that live within a wide radius of the stop and if it is “just one car” why then can’t the “one car” drive just three more blocks…

Parents are told to not pick their kids up from school, according to Ms. Ross, for the sole purpose of retaining funding for the bus system and or, hard to ascertain which, to keep traffic from gathering at actual school, the source of the problems.

Complaints also include homeowners being called “old bitches” and “fucking assholes” of which the district shows no remorse or inclination to resolve by simple moving the stop just a few hundred feet to the west where another stop currently exist at I and West 10th Streets.

This site has also noticed that other stops in the surrounding area transpire at corners, where there are sidewalls, less chance of trespass and private property damage.

The district has also failed to warn the guardians that pick up the children from the stop that the children are being legally recorded because of their behavior and could very well, because of the heavy use of harmful chemical in the area by homeowners, be harmed by toxins.

March 2, 2017 7:51am

February 22, 2017

Nippon To Cut, Perhaps To One Less Tax Base?

The last remaining mill in Port Angeles Nippon Paper Industries USA have been cutting operations at the local mill since January 21, 2017 for market related conditions.

The co-generation facility is continuing to run during this period to supply electricity to their customers however.

A mill spokesman recently said that the mill ?fully understands the mill?s importance to our employees and the community as a major employer and taxpayer? but most of the 105 hourly workers have been laid off.

About 20 to 30 employees are maintaining the plant and running Nippon?s recently built $90 million-plus biomass co-generation plant, which produces steam for paper products and to generate electricity for sale.

Employees are of course whining that they have to now collect unemployment all while trying to raise their families that have school aged children, but their families are living off the taxpayers. Most of their children are bused which leads to the harassment of homeowners in quiet residential neighborhoods who are having their neighborhoods destroyed and disrupted.

Nippon has been for sale for decades really and many think should just close and be put out of it?s misery, that action would be welcomed by many to reduce the tax base which would lead to the defunding of the city and county governments including the school districts.

Apparently there is no respect directed at the union membership and there shouldn?t be, a union spokesman recently stated that ?they?re really not sharing anything with the union at all, they haven?t told us anything.?

February 22, 2017  8:09am

February 17, 2017 

Clallam County And The School District Poorly Managed

Clallam County to pay $494,157 in 2017 due to miscalculations.

Apparently “errors” a huge $331,074 error occurred in the sheriff’s operations salary worksheet during the annual budget cycle last fall, commissioners learned earlier in the week.

Another $163,083 spreadsheet error was made on a sheriff’s jail salary worksheet. 

The spreadsheet errors are among the monthly debatable budget emergencies that commissioners will consider approving after a public hearing Feb. 28.

Earlier, just a few days ago, the four stooges were touting a whopping surplus, so much so that they were patting their own back for doing such a fantastic job, probably in fact ready to give themselves a big union pay raise.

But now that the real numbers have been exposed the county is in deficit of about $2.8 million and that default in county leadership will have the county in debt for years to come

Commissioners claim to be working on what they caused and claim to be working with other county leaders to reduce their spending by $1.5 million.

This site has reported that revenue is not the problem, it is the over spending and union hours need to be cut back once again and the court house closed.

Sheriff Benedict agrees saying that because salaries and benefits are driven by union agreements and government programs he rarely negotiates for personnel costs in the budget process because salaries and benefits are driven by union agreements and government programs and that “I don’t have any control of Medicaid”

This site has argued that the county needs to go back to the reduced hours and the days the court house operates.

In an unrelated matter the local school district also needs revamped, I have recently been informed on [it’s] idiotic measures, measure that include the fact the buses need to operate within a certain distance from the schools to retain funding and that harassing quiet neighborhoods is favored by the district over having the parents drive two more blocks to pick up their kids from the school grounds.

 February 17, 2017 7:03am 

February 13, 2017

The Left Put New Voter Base Over Safety

The State of Washington like most states collect in vast computer databases all sorts of personal information about state residents but now Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates are wondering if such routine data could one day aid any federal effort to identify and deport immigrants who entered the country illegally or to require Muslims to register with the government.

Legislation filed in Olympia would prevent the state from sharing data with the federal government in short, sharing with and help President Trump?s attempts to ban immigrant criminals from entering America.

And Gov. Jay Inslee has directed his staff to identify data collected by state agencies that the federal government could use to learn someone?s nationality or citizenship status.

Democratic officials in states like California, New York, Massachusetts and Oregon also are pushing to shield state data from the federal government. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown this month announced an executive order to keep state agencies from assisting the federal government in deportations or creation of a Muslim registry.

Their concern is that they would do a wholesale request for information once the data is shared, it?s available for any purpose one just has to look back at the WWII era.

Democratic state lawmakers have introduced bills in both the House and Senate to prohibit the state from sharing information about a person?s religious affiliation for the purpose of setting up a database based on religion.

February 13, 2017 7:13am

February 13, 2017

The Left Put New Voter Base Over Safety

The State of Washington like most states collect in vast computer databases all sorts of personal information about state residents but now Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates are wondering if such routine data could one day aid any federal effort to identify and deport immigrants who entered the country illegally or to require Muslims to register with the government.

Legislation filed in Olympia would prevent the state from sharing data with the federal government in short, sharing with and help President Trump?s attempts to ban immigrant criminals from entering America.

And Gov. Jay Inslee has directed his staff to identify data collected by state agencies that the federal government could use to learn someone?s nationality or citizenship status.

Democratic officials in states like California, New York, Massachusetts and Oregon also are pushing to shield state data from the federal government. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown this month announced an executive order to keep state agencies from assisting the federal government in deportations or creation of a Muslim registry.

Their concern is that they would do a wholesale request for information once the data is shared, it?s available for any purpose one just has to look back at the WWII era.

Democratic state lawmakers have introduced bills in both the House and Senate to prohibit the state from sharing information about a person?s religious affiliation for the purpose of setting up a database based on religion.

February 13, 2017 7:13am

February 10, 2017

Outsiders Don't Have American Constitutional Rights

The liberal mistake in rejecting President Trump?s bid to reinstate his ban on travel from seven largely Muslim nations will be a blessing in disguise.

President Trump was elected due to a huge part to the left?s attempt to burn down America and using the invading aliens to help them do it?

The very liberal San Francisco three judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Seattle federal judge?s earlier restraining order on the new policy should remain in effect while the judge further examines its legality.

Apparently the very confused had pointed to ?no evidence? that anyone from the seven nations had committed terrorism in the United States which of course is not even close to reality but apparently the liberal judges also think that alien invaders have constitutional rights even if they have never even set foot on God?s American soil

The ruling also rejected the administration?s claim that courts are powerless to review a president?s national security determinations and that judges have a crucial role to play in a constitutional democracy. Mr. Trump however should never be questioned?!

The court even acknowledged that President Trump is owed deference on his immigration and national security policy determinations but the deluded think that he was asking for more.

The Supreme Court will hear this matter in one form or another and many other issues that need conservative outcomes but remains short handed which is all that much more important to keep putting forth very conservative judges.

The travel ban, one of the first executive orders Trump issued after taking office, suspended worldwide refugee entry into the United States. It also barred visitors from seven Muslim majority nations for up to 90 days to give federal security agencies time to impose stricter vetting processes.

February 10, 2017 7:09am 

February 6, 2017

President Trump (sounds good doesn?t? it?) To Cut Funding

President Donald Trump is correctly threatening to punish cities and municipalities that shelter immigrants living in the country illegally by denying them federal dollars.

Most taxpayer money is beyond Trump?s control but a relatively small portion of the federal budget involves grants distributed by agency and Cabinet department heads appointed by Trump, and those programs could be affected.

President Trump has long threatened to cut funding from sanctuary cities by taking away their federal grants. Those are cities and other municipalities that shelter immigrants in the country illegally by refusing to help the federal government enforce immigration laws.

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle as well as entire States such as California, Washington and Oregon are sanctuaries for aliens and need defunded... Local officials have said however that greater Clallam County are not sanctuary areas.

Trump?s threat was enough to prompt some cities to abandon their sanctuary status but many other sanctuary cities are vowing to fight.

Payments to individuals such as Social Security or health benefits from Medicare, Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act are off the table so are other large pots of federal money such as highway funding and aid to disadvantaged schools and subsidized housing vouchers and heating subsidies for the poor and food stamps.

There is really not much left to cut however but discretionary grant programs. The order decrees that sanctuary jurisdictions ?are not eligible to receive federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes.?

February 6, 2017 7:12am

February 1, 2017

Yes, Finally, More Military Less Liberal Education 

The City Of Port Angeles and the entire county will see many benefits from the pile driving which began today for the project on Ediz Hook

The Navy?s $25.6 million pier project will consist of a 425foot pier and trestle off the southern shore of Coast Guard Air Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles.

Apparently the fragile ears of the more liberal residents are already complaining about the possible noise but this site thinks that the more militaristic America becomes the better off everyone will be, money is better spent on military endeavors than leftist social programs like funding education?

Once completed the project will serve vessels and crews that escort Naval Base Kitsap submarines as part of the Navy?s Transportation Protection System.

The project will be a facility for an 8,200-square-foot alert forces area with sleeping quarters that will house 20 to 30 personnel; a 10,000 gallon diesel fuel marine storage tank to get America back to being hooked on beautiful oil and a 200 sq ft armory for small arms and ammunition.

Navy officials plan to have the project completed by February 2018.

 February 1, 2017 6:30pm

January 24, 2017

Vote NO On School Levy, Again

Not only did the flaming liberal Gov. Jay Inslee tell a joint session of the state Legislature on Wednesday that lawmakers must fulfill their top priority of fully paying for the state?s basic education this year now the local tax and spend nuts are after the changes in the pockets of Clallam County voters once again.

Inslee also wants to waste money on mental health system and the homelessness

The state legislature now has more republicans than it?s ever had and throughout America, republicans have gained 1000 seats and hold the majority of Governors since the liberals including obama toke the national elections in 2008.

I urge the local voters to once again vote NO and send another message that we the taxpayers will not support the spending proposed by the money wasters.  

The Gov wants to seek then spend more than $5 billion in new revenue with most of it $3.9 billion wasted for education related issues..

The Great Betsy Devos should be approved and charter schools, private schools non taxpayers funded schools are the answer.

January 24, 2017 7:09am

January 20, 2017

Republicans In Clallam County Rejoice

Republicans in Clallam and Jefferson counties celebrated the inauguration of Donald Trump as president and talked of their hopes for eased business regulations, more freedom of speech and religion, better health care and America's standing in world affairs.

James Preston, a Clallam County precinct committee officer is more than pleased after the inauguration of Donald Trump as president and being newly sworn in as president at the Clallam County GOP headquarters in Port Angeles on Friday evening.

Preston admitted that Billionaire Trump isn?t a little guy, but he thinks Trump has their backs.

Although 30 people were reserved to the Clallam County gathering, 75 people showed up for the celebration at the Highway Twenty Roadhouse in Port Townsend, said a Jefferson County Republican Party chairman adding ?they were really excited. It was an exuberant crowd,? he said.

A majority of Clallam County voters supported Republican Trump with 48 percent leaving Mrs. Clinton with only 45 percent liberal and nutty Jefferson County however went overwhelmingly for Clinton, who won 12,656 votes, or 62 percent, to Trump?s 6,037 votes, or 30 percent.

The good Dick Pilling, former chairman of the Clallam County Republican Party, spoke of his concern about the U.S. Supreme Court saying?I want to make sure the Supreme Court maintains an appropriate balance,? he said, meaning that the late Antonin Scalia is replaced with a conservative.

Jokes were made and aimed at the loony lefties during the Port Angeles gathering about themselves as ?deplorable? but this is what the true racists and sexists do name call because that?s all they have is the nutty tossing of allegations.

January 20, 2017 7:05am

January 12, 2017

Loony Leftist Attorney General Ferguson Wants Your Guns

The Attorney General of Washington State Bob Ferguson proposed legislation on Monday that would ban the sale of assault style weapons and high capacity magazines but because of the inevitable blow back he released two bills, the second one would keep assault style weapons legal but would make them more difficult to obtain by raising the minimum age to legally own such a firearm and requiring them to be licensed, similar to a concealed weapons license.

The proposed bill would ban semi automatic rifles that have a detachable magazine and a pistol grip beneath the barrel. It would also ban magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition and semi-automatic pistols with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Ferguson, a loony lefty who easily won re-election said the definitions of ?assault weapon? used in his bill are similar to those used in laws in New York and Connecticut, other liberal la la lands. The ban however would apply only to sales of such weapons, grandfathering in currently owned guns.

A second bill from Ferguson would not ban such weapons but would require them to be licensed. To get a license, a person would have to be at least 21 (rather than 18), would have to complete a gun safety class and could not have been convicted of a felony.

To buy an assault weapon, a person would need a license, an additional in-depth background check and be subject to a 10 day waiting period. Similar restrictions are already in place on hand guns, which are currently more difficult to buy than assault-style weapons.

January 12, 2017 7:02am

January 6, 2017

Poll Favors The Republicans No New Taxes

A new poll suggests voters would rather cut government than raise taxes to solve the state?s school funding crisis.

Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee however recently proposed raising taxes by more than $4 billion over the next two years (increasing to more than $8 billion by 2019-21 biennium) to fully fund basic education while avoiding cuts to other programs.

Inslee?s plan includes a new tax on capital gains, a carbon tax and a major tax increase on service businesses. Republicans have panned the proposal and do not want to impose a huge tax increase.

The New poll found a majority of respondents agree with the very smart republicans and are wary of tax increases even if that means cutting programs. Only 34 percent opposed that concept.

The poll didn?t specify which programs might face the ax if lawmakers don?t raise taxes, making it easier to say cuts are acceptable and that the results do show a resistance to new taxes.

The poll of 500 registered voters was conducted Dec. 27-29 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

January 6, 2017 7:08am

January 2, 2017

Democrats Propose Taxes On Small Business

To help pay for the "under funding of Washington?s public schools," Gov. Jay Inslee is pushing the largest state business tax increase in decades.

The Democratic governor?s jumbo wish list, unveiled shortly before Christmas, would boost taxes on tens of thousands of service-industry businesses, affecting everything from law firms and bookkeepers to beauty shops, janitors, musical groups and funeral parlors.

Inslee?s plan is already being panned by the GOP and business groups and would raise the state?s business and occupation (B&O) tax rate for such services to 2.5%, from the current 1.5%.

Inslee wants the  massive tax increase to fund unnecessary teachers and more than $700 million in pay raises for state workers and $300 million in fixes for the state?s mental health system.

Service businesses already pay a substantially higher B&O rate than retailers and manufacturers. However, most services remain exempt from the state?s retail sales tax of 6.5 percent, which reaches nearly 10 percent in Seattle once local taxes are added.

Inslee?s huge tax increase would be the biggest since 1993, when then Gov. Mike Lowry and lawmakers similarly raised B&O taxes on service businesses and others as part of a $668 million tax package in response to a budget shortfall. Those tax increases were repealed a few years later.

There?s no guarantee majority House Democrats will embrace Inslee?s B&O plan, either.

State Rep. Kristine Lytton, D-Anacortes, who chairs the House Finance Committee, praised the governor?s work toward solving the state?s McCleary education-funding obligations.

But there is possible harm of raising taxes on small businesses. ?I will look at that very closely,? she said. ?I think we have to recognize that is a real challenge for a lot of people.?

Washington State does not impose a corporate income tax. Instead, it levies the B&O tax, which is applied to gross receipts, meaning businesses pay the tax regardless of whether they?re profitable.

January 2, 2017 7:10am

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December 14, 2018

Another Result Of Loony Liberal Policies, Drugs

Heroin, Meth, Opioid pills and Suboxone are on the increase not decrease yet the liberals continue encouraging the low lifes into the county for some reason maybe so the officials can say they are ?doing something? when the drug busts happen.

Nicolas ?Nico? Orozco-Cruz, the alleged head of a local drug trafficking organization is awaiting trial in federal court after ?OPNET? worked with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to investigate Orozco-Cruz and ?his? associates.

Orozco-Cruz was a dealer for 20 years in our community dealing heroin, meth, cocaine, most recently heroin.

More Recent, September, OPNET helped to arrest Arturo A. Ramirez and Jose L. Orozco in their plot to smuggle 60 grams of meth into the Clallam Bay Correction Center in a prison worker?s lunch.

OPNET works closely with the Coast Guard, Park Service, U.S. Rangers and all other local law enforcement agencies to create task forces.

Cherie Kidd wants her other Port Angeles City Council members to sign a letter to state and federal lawmakers to restore the funding lost due to budget restraints and that ?without it, we?d be overrun with drug dealers.?

The county already is, Kidd, and it is your liberal lunatic bleeding heart wacko policies that brought them here in the first place.

Seattle, the bring one bring all lets be nice to all of the low lifes and welcome them into our communities lunatics are now regretting [their] thinking after not being able to provide simple housing for the new brown skinned arrivals and even the [liberal] tax payers are getting tired of funding all of the subsequent clean up now needed.

December 14, 2018 7:06am

November 26, 2018

West 10th Street Project Will Create More Issues

The infrastructure project is supposed to make that road, which was rough to say the least, more driver friendly and to install other needed updates including drainage and sidewalks for Hamilton School mostly and of course, bicycle lanes.

The Updates are being fulfilled by Lakeside Industries and will cost $2.5 million of which $1.25 million is a state grant.

Voters can go to the city?s website for updates and more information but what the website won?t tell you is all of the problems that the new development(s) will cause for the homeowners further east down to C St.

The improvements are supposed to guide drivers to I Street then north to W 8th St but what it will do instead is create more traffic for W 10th Street further east.

Contributors to this website own property on West 10th St and notice the increase in drivers speeding and causing havoc on the unmarked roadway.

No four way intersection between I Street and C Street is marked to stop or even yield and drivers just speed right through without a clue.

A homeowner can place a video camera on any given day and record a dozen speeders and traffic violators all within an hour. The intersection at G and W 10th streets has had many accidents, and I use that term loosely, in the past few years.

The sidewalks were a necessity because, unbelievably, Hamilton School was busing students two blocks away because the district did not want their little liberal snowflakes to have to walk more than a few blocks to and from school.

That?s right, the district was using taxpayer money to bus from Hamilton at W 7th and M streets down to W 10th and M street east to G street to let off just several riders while their parents waited in their cars outside of people?s homes instead of picking their kids up at the school because the schools needed the money and busing brought it revenue.

The district was made aware of this issue(s) as was the city including Broam who just sits back in his nice warm chair and relies on, ?studies.?

He will be contacted again and this time with videos.

November 26, 2018 7:08am

November 19,. 2018

Port Angeles City Council Covers Their Asses

As with the utility rate increase, The Port Angeles City Council is now, just days after the election, begging for a 1 percent property tax levy increase.

They have spent the local budget into the ditch and now want the tax payers to bail them out and support the resolution for the increase.

The 2019 budget is quickly coming due and the picture is not as rosy and they want all of you to believe and are now trying to cover their asses.

Council member Cherie Kidd ?fully supports? the resolution saying that, however, ?it does not keep up with our expenses.?

This site agrees!

The increase is allowed by law so of course the money grubbers will take advantage of the opportunity knowing that property taxes bring in the most revenue.

November 19, 2018 7:50am

November 15. 2018

Port Angeles School District Strikes

The para-educators of The Port Angeles School District have caused the district to strike starting today?

The hope for ?mediation? Tuesday and to reach an agreement broke down. The para-educators authorized a strike to begin Today if they could not reach an agreement with the school district over, of course, pay.

The District had hoped that school would be on schedule for Nov. 15.?

Eric Pickens, Port Angeles Education Association President, has encouraged teachers to support a strike and to honor the para-educators? picket line.

The district had offered the para-educators a 3.5 percent pay increase but the association countered with 22 percent. Para-educators voted Nov. 6 to authorize a strike to begin this coming Thursday, today if an offer is not fair and equitable.

Para-educators are among the lowest paid employees in the Port Angeles School District at $15.68 per hour, which really isn?t bad for what they do, or not.

Increasing the pay would make para-educators among the best paid in the region after the district had already approved a 4.1 percent raise for other employees.

November 15, 2018 7:53am

November 9. 2018

The Dust Hasn?t Even Settled

It didn?t take The Port Angeles City Council long to sock the taxpayers with a 1 percent rate increase for their utility bills in the aftermath of the election.

The increase is added onto the whopping amount that taxpayers will pay for their new property assessments.

Cherie Kidd was the only member that opposed the increase

The increase however only seems to pertain to water and electric rates, solid waste collections, will not change. Nor will Medic 1 rates.

Kidd was a no vote because of the 5.4 percent water rate increase for households and said
?I just personally feel that raising something over 5 percent is just out of my comfort zone because water is essential.

Council member Michael Merideth also said the water rate increase ?sucks.?

Most were concerned with the city subsidizing other utilities.

?That?s a road to nowhere at the end. So I will be supporting this, even though it does suck.?

Mayor Sissi Bruch voted for the increase and cited the need to update and maintain the infrastructure that provides the services.

November 9, 2018 7:53am

November 7. 2018

Election 2018

United States;

Congress to gain 30 to 40 seats, Senate to stay GOP with gains of several seats

Washington State; Kim Schrier leads Dino Rossi in 8th Congressional District

Maria Cantwell defeats Susan Hutchison in U.S. Senate race

McMorris Rodgers wins

Herrera Beutler leads

Initiative Measure No. 1631 NO

Initiative Measure No. 1634 YES

Initiative Measure No. 1639 YES

Initiative Measure No. 940 YES

Local;

GOP Bill Peach Clallam County Commissioner beats badly Mike Doherty

Prosecuting attorney Mark Nichols leading challenger Selinda Barkhuis

Sheriff Bill Benedict wins over Jim McLaughlin

Director of Community Development Mary Ellen Winborn keeps her seat

Dave Neupert narrowly leads Suzanne Hayden for the District Court 1 judgeship

John Black has small lead over Erik Rohrer for District Court 2

Mike Chapman, Legislative District 24 Position 1, keeps his seat

Steve Tharinger, Position 2, leads against challenger Jim McEntire

Congressional District 6;

Derek Kilmer, Congressional District 6 wins big

November 7, 2018 7:33am

October 25, 2018

The Port Angeles City Budget Is In And Balance??

The 2019 budget is a whopping $116.1 million and is a huge increase.

City Manager Nathan West told the council the reason the huge budget saw such a big increase was due to a cost of living increase for staff.

City staff claimed there was a $1.2 million shortfall but because personnel worked together to raise your taxes everything will be just swell.

As is the case for both private business and governments, salaries and benefits make up the usual three quarters of a budget especially when the city just handed out a big 2 percent cost of living increase.

Everyone is still hoping the new, retooled mill will bring in utility revenue but that won?t happen for months yet and will be less due to energy savings.

October 25, 2018 7:21am

October 16, 2018

Retiring Administrator Warns Of Overspending

?Increasing personnel costs make the budget unsustainable into the future? says outgoing Clallam County Administrator Jim Jones.

Jones said that in a meeting Monday with the commissioner and said his budget will leave the county with a ?robust? reserve at the end of 2019.

Jones also said that the overall budget is solid.

Personnel salaries and benefits, something this site has warned against for years, are expected to increase by $1.7 million and to $29.6 million, with a huge percent by automatic adjustments to county personnel.

The good news is, some employees leave for other opportunities.

Department heads whine however because they claim to be short staffed for a few days before new hires arrive.

Jones submits that the county can absorb the increased personnel costs in the near future but is concerned about years out.

So is this web site, they don?t seem to keep their hands off other people?s money.

October 16, 2018 7:21am

October 12, 2018

Two So Called Heavy Weights Vie For Legislature Seat

Rep. Steve Tharinger and Jim McEntire former Clallam County official respond to measures involving guns and taxes at a Tuesday night and word is that Tharinger was mumbling and sounded almost like he was drunk.

The worst ideas that Tharinger has was is support of a capital gains tax which would hit lower income voters but Tharinger said he doesn?t care, he wants the tax. .

His reasoning is also very, very flawed and loony like saying that he ?wants to find a way to get back that ?that 30-cent [property] tax break we gave you? and that he wants that money back so he can spend it in worthless programs.

McEntire of course as he should opposed the huge tax increase and knows that Tharinger also wants a state income tax soon and he won?t stop until he gets it.

McEntire also knows that ?when you transact business, and cash flows from that transaction, that?s income, it can?t be anything else? and that ?if the state of Washington taxes capital, businesses will move elsewhere.?

A questioner asked about the ownership of a 60 year old rifle his father gave him if the new controls pass, McEntire said its backers are trying to create fear and that it is ?blatant discrimination? and ?more should be done for mental health.

The topic of Kavanaugh was also address and Tharinger, a good little catering loon, was in full support of Ms. Christine Blasey Ford, a loon herself that had no evidence.

No one connected to this site has ever or will ever be accused of such a crime or incident but the woman had no case nor did any of the other loony tunes who crawled out of the woodwork also, with zero evidence.

By all means ladies, of all ages, if an event occurs, report it, if what?s often referred to a ?fanny tap? occurs, that too is assault.

But there is a big wide line, yet a small line between what is actionable or not, being comfortable around friends getting ?touchy? is not taking advantage, is!

October 8, 2018 7:39am

October 8, 2018

Bill Peach Wins Debate

Sitting Clallam County Commissioner Bill Peach wins debate over Mike Doherty in a contentious meeting held at the Olympic Medical Center Friday.

Has been Doherty however will have a great shot at defeating Peach in liberal Clallam County. Neither really had any ?vision? during the ?debate.?

Peach said during the short debate that he has insight about Mike?s approach, and all but called Doherty ?an elitist.?

Peach talked about his ability to have a relationship with the two other commissioners Randy Johnson and Mark Ozias since Doherty walked away and says there has been a lot ?less fighting between commissioners? and the commission is stable,

The winner will coordinate a $39.9 million annual budget that funds 22 departments and the salaries of more than 400 employees.

Peach also hit Doherty for his, lack of financial experience. Doherty has never worked in private industry or ever had to meet a payroll.

Doherty governed over explosions in local debt and tax hikes.

Other local loons are coming to Doherty?s defense however.

This site has always supported the idea of turnover with new blood libel to not let any one keep the seat too warm so long as that individual is community friendly and doesn?t resort to or support libel an internet harassment.

Electing Mike Doherty is a step backwards but no one else is stepping forward.

October 8, 2018 7:33am

September 24, 2018

Will The Fencing Provide Good Enough Barriers

Many feel that the erection of the barriers on the two eighth street bridges in Port Angeles will not do much to stop suicide in the county.

The $771,000 project now completed has those that have lost loved ones feeling however that the new barriers if completed sooner would have stopped some from dying.

The city, however, had ulterior motives to build the barriers. Though a bit cynical they had faced a lawsuit from a father who threatened to sue the city after his daughter had died from jumping off one of the spans after the city had said twice barriers were too expensive.

Many also feel that "the barrier party" is also a bad idea, even those that support the higher barriers, but point out that Cherie :Kidd never misses an opportunity to get her face in the news including the support of "homeless" people" to show ?she cares."

Suicides are on the rise in Clallam County that has seen an upward trend throughout the past 10 years and an average of 123 suicides per day across the United States.

Reagan Mead had tried to commit suicide by another avenue as many do and in 2006 drove to Crown Park in Port Angeles and shot herself with a .38 Special handgun.

She has survived however thanks to a quick ambulance call.

The conservative in me did not want to spend the money which is all too easy to do but with Gods help perhaps it will save one life, a life that can not have any other means to do the act including the easy access to a hand guns and or pharmaceuticals .

September 24, 2018 7:12am

September 10, 2018

Choice Made To Replace Administrator Jim Jones

The board unanimously decided late Friday afternoon to offer the job of Clallam County Administrator to David Fraser, a government sector consultant.

The Three Clallam County Commissioners have made their selection that seemed to be precooked, Mark Ozias, Bill Peach and Randy Johnson had their minds made up pending a background check and they indeed chose a former city manager.

Fraser seems to be clean cut, 51, married father of four, been through a number of background checks describes himself as ?a Boy Scout? in terms of what they are going to be worrying about,? and in fact is was ?a scout leader.?

Fraser has also been a city manager of three other cities which made the commissioners feel he was the better of the other three to four candidates including Port of Port Angeles Commissioner Colleen McAleer of Sequim.

Fraser also passed the other obstacle courses of a community panel that interviewed the applicants and other elected officials and department heads.

The position will pay at least $130,201 which is way to much however.

?Teamwork? seemed to be a big issue for the three commissioners, lets hope that does not mean lets all get along to raise taxes and spend money.

Jim Jones, despite my opposition and jazz, did not do a bad job really, with sites like scotttcollins.com, he did in fact keep spending and taxes somewhat under control and he also paid me a compliment a decade ago by saying ?at least? I, when I used to comment on the PDN site regarding the budgets, ?was brave enough to use my real name.?

September 10, 2018 7:22am

August 27, 2018

Republicans Hold All Three Branches, Not Democrats

Everything is perfect Clown T V finally pulled their heads out of their asses and admitted I was right, the criminal acts of DACA aged brown people are not isolated but in the tens of thousands yet passage still tops the GOP agenda.

The GOP and it?s media midgets had two years to advocate for stand alone security bills to halt rapes against young white virgins not making the national media. Voters won?t give two shits about Fox's tax scams, stocks or dossiers.

I had advocated that President Trump give an address, he came close by making a video but he needs to give it from the oval office to have an impact. He should take one giant leap for mankind and take a measure no one including me has advocated before.

August 27, 2018 6:40am

August 20, 2018

Keep Your Pussies Home

The recent outbreak of pussy cat crimes is because owners either do not know of the ordinance that also pertains to cats as it does dogs or they do not feel they have to abide by the law.

The same can also be said for dog owners that let their dogs roam.

I can witness that personally, there are those in my neighborhood that walk their dogs unleashed, I guess because they feel their dogs are too special to be leashed, even when walking with, alongside of, the owner.

When asked to put their dog on a leash to keep the filthy things out of other people?s yards the response is an attitudes like, how dare anyone suggest their precious dogs are causing anyone else issues.

Just recently a man was walking his dog past my home and purposely on my green grass which is well off the road, I had asked if his dog has ever seen grass before and he acted like he and his dog had a God given right to be on my grass.

There is a city ordinance that pertain also to cats and the same rules apply. If you do not want your cats maimed or worse, perhaps, dead, then keep your stinks on your own properties. It?s The Law?

The city council should also pass a ?no feeding the wildlife? ordinance as most other municipalities are doing, and they don?t just pertain to lions tigers and bears.

Birds, especially pigeons, should have a ban. Pigeons are a major problem and create quite a mess on $30,000 roofs not to mention any one or thing, below their path.

Deer too are causing issues including making insurance rates skyrocket not to mention for residents such as myself that can no longer have flowers at my own home due to the heard that should be severely thinned.

Not everyone think it cute to have Bambi in their downtown neighborhoods.

August 20,, 2018 6:40am

August 13, 2018

The Loony Liberals Will Tie Suicide To Education

Contractor are installing a 10-foot barriers to the two eighth bridges costing $771,000 yet that will not stop suicides, committed by the mentally ill and depressed.

Suicides on the North Olympic Peninsula including both Clallam and Jefferson Counties are beating last year?s numbers.

There were approx 30 suicides combined in both counties of which include other ways other than jumping off the eighth street bridges of which we are all paying for although that will not stop hanging one?s self nor, the million other ways?

Is The City Council going to now ban rope, pillows, guns and prescription drugs and make the taxpayers pay for all that too as they have plastic bags. Gunshots are the most common method of suicide, followed by hanging.

Voters, not a loony liberal court, voted against all levies for all educational activities yet The Port Angeles School District however is increasing it?s pay to it?s teachers 3.1 percent some of which is mandated after the very bad McCleary decision but even that has those like President Eric Pickens, of the Port Angeles Education Association, screaming out that ?we want the money that is here for our raises,?

Pick Pocket Pickens whines that the administrators offered relatively nothing to the unions and others want the state legislators to get involved with the negotiations but that would be inappropriate.

Since 2015 the school district has been spending down it?s reserves considering that the district, in the last three years, has had to pay the costs for all personnel and benefits which has increased by tens of millions of dollars and approx 90 percent.

The very poor liberal McCleary decision promised to increase Washington State?s liberal educator?s pay and make the taxpayers pay for all of it.

The local district should now then take a hard look at all of its programs and staffing.

August 13,, 2018 6:44am

August 8, 2018

Nothing Ever Changes At Least Not Locally

The establishment can chalk up another victory, again, and the same old faces will be littering the scene for years to come.

Doherty, Neupert, Nichols, Chapman, Tharinger and Cantwell can all thank incumbency and voter lack of imagination and simple mindedness for their victories.

The big losers are Pam Lindquist and Dale Wilson.

Word around the neighborhood is that even the mother of Lindquist ?didn?t even think she had a chance.? Wilson?s M O apparently rubbed the county the wrong way although a little stirring of the pot is always good so things do not stick to the bottom as is the case with the current establishment.

The report by Major was fair regarding Wilson and reports regarding Lindquist who couldn?t possibly have been serious considering she hadn?t even practiced law for years and although many had complained, the PDN did if fact, report on Mark Nichols.

As I always have said and the main reason I started this site, and though it is not full time due to the fact I have a full time job, is due to the same ole establishment way but unfortunately, and I am not admitting defeat, the voters again are afraid of change.

The main victories remain, however, no uncesessary funding to rebuild the outdated schools and, Craig Fulton, father of The Rain Garden disasters, resigned.

August 8, 2018 6:33am 

July 13, 2018

City Of Port Angeles Again Takes My Advice

Faced with past overspending problems The City of Port Angeles has now finally admitted that cuts are now necessary and taxpayers are exhausted.

But be under no illusions, these so called cuts will not be in pay or benefits but to public services of course, then officials will wait for the voters to stare whining about the cuts then will ask to raise taxes to pay for the bloated local Government.

One cost cutting measure would have been to not spend a million dollars on the eighth street bridge fencing project Another huge waste of taxpayer money was those stupid ?rain gardens? which reduce productivity by slowing traffic to a crawl which is a requirement now so that drivers can avoid accidents.

Anyone using the west end roadways surrounding the west Shane Park Hamilton School area knows what I am taking about, to make a turn or even passing coming traffic drivers now have to come to a near stop to allow other vehicles to pass.

They promise to eliminate positions but that is really not even necessary if all pay and benefits are reduced to a more reasonable level in a ?depressed county.?

All governmental bodies are guilty of this, they do not plan well for the future and find it easy to vote for expensive projects but take a clue from the voters who have voted down many attempts to spend hundreds of wasted dollars of local schools.

I have mentioned just two projects that never should have been funded, as sad as suicide is, that is an isolated issue that will never be eliminated and the ?rain gardens? were totally unnecessary in all areas where they were installed except in the immediate Shane Park area where the city had allowed homes to be built on a swamp without proper drainage back in the 1960s and 1970.

All other road narrowing curbing complete with ?environmental? vegetation? seems to be causing more issues than it solves including attracting more deer.

One additional issue is The Homeless issue, stop the funding and do what the Seattle area liberal loons are doing, ship them out of Washington State.

July 13, 2018 8:05am

June 29, 2018

Homeless Shelters To Close, Taxpayers Save One Million

Serenity House has previously announced that it would close it?s shelters because taxpayers are tired of providing funding and seeing the homeless being encouraged to come to Port Angeles and roam, if not sleeping, in our streets and now that reality has come and will close it?s doors and hopefully for good.

Clallam County would need to collect a Million Dollars a year to keep the shelters operating per year.

The county government could do the citizens and taxpayers a great service by not having bleeding hearts and reject any attempt to provide more funding.

Serenity House recently said it?s shelters will now close after it was unable to secure funding from Clallam County.

This was one of the best decisions, although I can not give credit to the county government because the funding was not available to them, that they have made. By not providing funds is like not feeding a stray dog, it will go away once you stop putting free food out and giving the animals an incentive to hang around.

June, 29, 2018 7:09am

May 30, 2018

Child Poked By Needle, You Asked For It You Got It

A discarded syringe poked a 3 year old near a playground and was rightly described by the local police as ?unfortunate and unacceptable.?

Corp Clay Rife said the child went immediately to Olympic Medical Center and officers will comb playgrounds, parks, schools and vulnerable areas when possible.

Wood chips weren?t the problem but playgrounds covered in the chips will be replaced with rubber matting to make the parks safer by not allowing objects such as syringes to hide thus giving parents and children the peace of mind.

The local police are not engaged in an active investigation into the syringe but have checked surveillance cameras however no evidence was obtained.

Of course the parks are not the only place needles can be found, unfortunately it is a sign of the times and policy, those prone to be users of the needles are encourage to move and then loiter here in Port Angeles via low income housing shelters etc.

In short, bleeding heart policies are too blame.

Wake up people, the nicer you are to these low lives the more you encourage to move here and leave their needles.

Look at Seattle, yes, nice welcoming liberal Seattle, once dubbed ?The Emerald City? portraying the we are nice up here in the Northwest attitude is now the bring us your hungry, poor, illegal brown alien rapists and drug addicted, now has illegal human trash scattered all along the roadways and the bleeding heart?s answer seems to be, ?well just add more money to the system.

I hate to be so jaded if not cruel or even psycho to suggest just wait until it is liberals and their desires and policies that lead to their children being raped or pricked by a needle left by a homeless person or newly arrived immigrunt that they love so much.

May 30, 2018 7:05am

May 18, 2018

Same Old Tired Liberal Lunatics

Mike Doherty, Former Clallam County Commissioner, is making another run at his old position in the Nov. 6 general election against incumbent Republican Bill Peach.

Doherty is a 75 year old leftist democrat that is giving it another shot after failing to seek reelection after criticizing the body in which he served and now seeks.

He filed Thursday for the District 3 position, Forks, which he had held for 4 terms and is now currently held by Bill Peach.

A frequent speaker at public meetings on the dangers of climate change, Doherty supports climate change as does this web site though not to the extent as the leftist loons. He also does not think the problems will be there this go around because the board will consist of two other leftist loons this time with the absence of Jim McEntire who was only there to create a buffer not to actually be a good conservative?

Mark Oasis and Randy Dandy Johnson will be the other two leftist lunatics.

Doherty has been peeking in on board meeting and thinks he can work with the other two lunatics and pledges "to do a lot more and be more active on liberal issues.?

May 18, 2018 7:10am

May 10, 2018

The Great Tim Eyman Wants $30.00 Tabs Again

Tim Eyman, the anti-tax crusader and serial initiative filer, is putting $100.00 of his own money behind his latest effort to cut car tab taxes and cripple funding for Sound Transit and has pledged an additional $400,000 loan to the campaign but has not yet handed over the money, according to his latest report to the state Public Disclosure Commission.

A similar $30 car tabs initiative that Eyman led last year failed to collect enough signatures, a result that he attributed to lackluster fundraising that kept his campaign from hiring paid signature gatherers.

Perhaps try voters outside the liberal King County.

Eyman said I?m putting the money on the line because I think there?s plenty of people that want to sign petitions.?

Sound Transit 3, which more than tripled car tab taxes in the Puget Sound region, passed with about 54 percent of the vote in 2016, as voters chose to fund a massive expansion of public transit. But since then, voter umbrage over the increase and the way car tab taxes are calculated has led the state Legislature to try to make changes.

My tabs haven?t been $30.00 for decades, since the reduction was passed at that time.

Eyman has since twice previously gotten initiatives passed to cut car tab taxes to $30.

Voters Want More Choices has raised about $162,000 this year, including Eyman?s $100,000 loan and the $20,000 from last year?s campaign.

?Please help me bring back our $30 tabs, stick it to Sound Transit and show Bob Ferguson, Washington State?s Attorney General, who is suing Eyman, that his attacks have only inspired us to work even harder,? Eyman has wrote.

May 10, 2018 7:09am

May 4, 2018

The Brain Child Behind Rain Garden Craig Fulton Resigns

Port Angeles Public Works and Utilities Department director Craig Fulton resigned from his position without notice late Friday.

This comes after Fulton was being put on administrative leave for supervisory performance issues within public works, Michael Cyr, manager of the City Light Operations Division also recently quit.

City Manager Dan McKeen did not say much else only that Cyr?s departure was ?not directly? related to Fulton?s resignation.

Fulton also would not comment much on the administrative leave only that ?my wife and I had been talking about this for a long time? and that ?it?s just time.?

Fulton said he will explore the possibility of opening a private consulting company.

Fulton was highly thought of for overseeing the $47 million Combined Sewer Overflow project and others but also criticized heavily for the West Port Angeles Rain Gardens which left many residents no room to park in front of their own homes and barely enough room to pass oncoming vehicles.

Vehicle traffic now have to, in most cases, stop in the middle of the road in order to make a simple turn and slow to a crawl in order to avoid a collision due to the bottlenecking at numerous corners that now extend out into the road way.

May 4, 2018 7:07am

April 27, 2018

Yes, Pull The Plug On the Homeless Shelter(s)

The local homeless shelters, Serenity House, faces closure if $200,000 can not be gifted by the community.

The local shelters are a stepping stone to a permanent living arrangement, single people are usually handed a studio apartment and families are given a voucher for a Section 8 housing which are usually two to four bedroom houses.

The local shelters as other government funded entities can no longer afford to continue throwing around out funds to keep the shelters open nor does the county taxpayers to fund all the agencies requesting funds.

Only half of the nearly one million dollars as asked for $409,000 was available which comes from recording fees.

The shelters will close by May 15 is magic does fall from the sky, magic meaning taxpayers that just love to hand their money over to worthless causes.

Not only has the federal program U.S. Housing and Urban Development?s Emergency Solutions Grants program ended prior to November 2016, Clallam County also is struggling to balance its general fund budget, which is increasingly burdened by decisions made at the state level.

It has always been this site?s contention that ?if you build it they will indeed come.? Welcoming and ultra liberal Seattle is now a tent city with no housing to put all of the illegal immigrants they have welcomed into the area.

It should be discouraged not encouraged to be homeless.

April 27, 2018 7:07am

April 20, 2018

The Port Angeles School District Admits I Was Right

District officials are worried about this years budget and is now realizing I was right and are reduced by this site and will now have to reduce it's budget.

But loony board members like Cindy Kelly say ?we should not tighten our belts.?

Director of finance for PASD, David Knechtel, admits that the district is on par to bust the budget this year by over $450,000 leaving the district?s rainy day fund also low.

The district is on par for a $1.2 million deficit this year.

Part of that deficit is because the district had to pay out for attorney fees over a make believe story concocted and put forth by Head Quack Joshual Jones.

Jones had made up stories about being harassed and called on his ?home and office phone? from a taxpayer simply wanting answers from a board member that then made the district hire an attorney to send ?cease and desist? letters.

The false allegations turn out to be totally false, he had lied to his superiors and the law firm had to then subsequently send an apology letter.

Officials are now admitting that that was a blunder along with other mismanagement by both the Superintendent and the district?s board members such as Sarah Methner.

Sarah Methner also seems to only be worried about salaries and benefits.

Board Director and Quack Josh Jones also said the district will need to consider saving even more money because voters voted down construction levy and bonds issues.

Damn those pesky voters?

April 20, 2018 7:09am

April 12, 2018

Clallam County Officials Trying To Pull A Fast One

Clallam Administrator Jim Jones on his way out the door and others are tying to pull a fast one and rework their salaries to closely match their Superior Court cohorts.

This latest attempt to screw the voters into handing over more of their hard earned money is meeting with much resistance however with my mail through the roof.

Elected officials concocted this great idea for a ?fair salary? to help Clallam County remain ?competitive? with other jurisdictions as if voters give a damn.

Commissioner and main lunatic Mark Oasis is at the forefront of this scam.

Clallam County Administrator Jim Jones will present three options to the elected officials during a ?special? meeting and will try and lie his way Jones through the attempt by saying that he ?is trying not to influence the officials? decision and that his options are not recommendations? and that, ?the commissioners may mix and match.?

Jones is ?confident? that the Board of County of Commissioners will approve a resolution during its April 24 meeting for the outrageous increase.

Commissioner and main lunatic Mark Oasis during Monday?s work session, questioned whether the director of the Department of Community Development should be paid more than 50 percent and wants you voters to pay him 60 percent.

The new salaries, voted by those who would benefits from socking it to the taxpayers, first would not see their self voted raises until they are reelected.

Clallam county Administrator Jim Jones has been arguably the worst administrator in the history of Clallam County.

April 12, 2018 7:15am

April 4, 2018

Mike Chapman Cries Like A Loony Little Baby

Liberal Leftist Rep. Mike Chapman is whining, if not threatening freedom of speech by lashing out at his opposition by saying ?don?t come into my district, talk to [my] newspaper and say I?m not representing my district when you voted against tax breaks that directly benefit my district.?

The Port Angeles Democrat said those words to the Port Angeles Business Association meeting on Tuesday. What are his plans, to also ban freedom of travel?

Typical liberal lunatic, ban the speech that you, as an individual, disagree with while using the same media and his platform to spout the anti first amendment rant.

He went on to say that he ?found that,? their freedoms, ?highly offensive and would not do that to another legislative district.?

Apparently his opposition had spoke to the local newspaper and Chapman now wants to ban anyone from ever speaking their mind(s) to anyone ever again.

This is a growing issue, not ?protecting? freedom of speech but an outright ban, advocated by the loonies who only want [their] side heard.

This is also a growing problem online and it's being more and more exposed where the irresponsible loonies create posts that libel and slander "with no legitimate purpose" which [is] unlawful then cry like little babies when the favors are returned.

April 4, 2018 7:11am

March 26, 2018

Anti Constitution Liberals Out In Force

Though in very small numbers, the loony left were out showing their support for the George Soros way of thinking, protest in large numbers in an effort to destroy America as well have known it and make it more loony, bitter and angry.

The local school district and it?s loony leadership has also contributed to this goal by supporting the liberal protests.

There will never be a full repeal of the Second Amendment, get that through your tiny little heads you uneducated, brain washed and angry little dead beats.

There may be little adjustments regarding purchasing as well there should be but no more, guns will not be restricted, and all of this is all being said by someone who has never owned a firearm or even discharged one in my life.

What all of these angry idiots don?t seem to mention is that more have died on the Peninsula from suicide than from gun violence. What is also not being mentioned is all of the perpetrators have all been young liberal men with mental issues.

The more educated of the protesters were speaking to the problem of drugs, illegal and prescribed. Mostly prescribed, as a Laura Fierro had said, ?psychiatric drugs kids are prescribed are part of the issue, too,? ?we need to look deeper into what these kids are being prescribed.?

I personally know of psychopaths that should be sent to a rubber room.

Back to the issue of firearms, I had called a local gun dealer recently and the employee had told me that since his employ, ?three years,? the store had sold 3000 AR-15s.

I found that number alarming and surprising but he did say that local law enforcement and other enthusiasts buy them for sport competition.

Should an enthusiast under the age of 21 purchase an AR-15, probably not, but also keep in mind that there are many other weapons that do the same thing.

March 26, 2018 7:11am

March 30, 2018

Finally A Victory For Landlords

The courts, at least for now, have finally realized that landlords are in fact, property owners that have a right in choosing who lives in their homes.

The recent ruling against Seattle?s first come first served law for renters means that those less desirable can be more scrutinized as it should be, after all it is our home(s).

Liberal Seattle is where the action is, and it?s City Council had adopted the First Come First Serve law in 2016. The city council approved law has allowed landlords to screen for characteristics such as credit scores while requiring them to publicize their criteria and accept [the first] qualified applicant.

Judge rejected that Seattle?s First Come, First Served? rental law as unconstitutional.

The ruling now simply allows landlords to make a choice regarding their own property(s). Those liberal groups opposing the ruling think the government should choose who the property owners can and should allow as occupants and complain that the ruling will result in discrimination and liked the old law saying it cut down on the cherry picking. Heaven forbid, a property owner actually having a choice.

Choosing a tenant ?is a fundamental attribute of property ownership? the judge wrote, while siding with landlords who accused the city of violating their rights to property, due process and free speech rights under the state constitution.

March 30, 2018 7:18am

March 16, 2018

Teach The Constitution Not How To Destroy It

Clallam County students skipped classes Wednesday with the blessing of the district to show support for gun control, an issue most of those protesting probably have no clue. Although I have never owned or even possessed a firearm, I will defend that right or any right that is long engraved in The Constitution.

The rabid rodents in Cuba North also have no clue about The Constitution and are being used by the loony left in the effort of further destroying America as we know it and now the local school district is encouraged their enrollees to participate.

Marc Jackson, soon to be removed liberal Port Angeles School District superintendent, told the students he was proud of them as did most of those who are supposedly adults in charge of the students enrolled to learn in schools not walk out.

In fact not one dissent was reported throughout the district, a district apparently teaching it?s students how to destroy the constitution and not how to protect it.

Jackson had said previously that students would not be punished for walking out of school and said that ?protesting is a powerful learning experience.?

So how do the local schools and enrollees rate in education levels?

Local students carried signs and committed malicious mischief by using chalk to write on the sidewalks around the front of the school the names of those who had died.

The students did do one thing right, which may not have been encouraged or performed around the nation and certainly not in increasingly liberal Cuba North, they gathered around the flagpole to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Perhaps there is hope yet for Making America Great Again?

March 16, 2018 7:11am

March 12, 2018

Let Only The Bleeding Heart Idiots Pay For Barriers

Ex Clallam County money waster Rep. Mike Chapman now spends your hard earned income from Olympia, but don?t blame me, you are the idiots that kept voting for him. Now he and other leftist feel good loons secured funds for the bridge barriers to try and stop suicides as if banning guns will also stop shootings.

Now, I do not own any firearms and never have but will always support the Constitution and, the notion, that someone, anyone, will find a way to do harm.

The state is providing $350,000 from the state?s transportation budget to erect barriers to halt those prone to jumping from do so from the Port Angeles bridge(s)

Chapman admits that this is [an emotional issue] which is all it is just like the firearm debate and the banning of said firearms as if no one will ever get their hands on a weapon ever again of any kind if only guns were ban.

Those wanting to commit harm to others or themselves will find a way. There has been seven people that have jumped from the bridges over the Tumwater and Valley creeks since they replaced the old bridges

The City Of Port Angeles needed the state funding because of McKinley Paper Co. putting it?s reopening plans on hold which was a big punch in the gut to those who like to spend taxpayer money, the mill was a big contributor to city coffers in the form of electric utility taxes that went into the city?s general fund annually.

I do however like the fact that donations have been collected and pledged which is how this issue should handled, let those who have bleeding hearts pay for it, those who think that placing barriers will stop the those from committing the unthinkable.

March 12, 2018 7:09am

March 5, 2018

Homelessness Made Up Of Mostly Immigrunts Costly

Washington State along with the entire west coast has a problem with homeless immigrants and now a new task force wants to tax all of you so the homeless will be homeless no more, homeless that treat their dogs better than themselves.

The $75 million per year ?head tax? proposal would be implemented on high grossing businesses and was defeated already once. It would have taken 6.5 cents per employee, per hour, from companies grossing more than $10 million per year.

Those against the plan say taxes ?should not be increased lightly? and that the some amount of money needed to combat homelessness ?can and should be located by making cuts to public spending outside the homelessness services sector.?

Rather than say exactly which businesses should be taxed and how, the task force is recommending the council chose from several options.

The companies most likely affected would be those with more than $10 million in gross revenue would pay the bulk of the tax, while under the second and third options, the threshold would be $8 million.

All of the new collected funds would be split, 80 percent of the new tax money to low income housing and about 20 percent to emergency shelter and services.

Some of this has been tied up in the courts and pertains mostly to the King County area but will in some way affect all of you in Washington State.

March 5, 2018 7:22am

February 27, 2018

Even Democrats Advocate Not Paying Your Taxes

The top democrats urging property owners to not pay their property tax bills until more information and corrections are made at the end of the legislative session on March 8 2018.

Property owners are confused about how much their burden is after the impacts of the Republican property tax plan of 2017.

It is not often that elected officials advise to not pay your taxes but citizens are fed up with their taxes going up hence the outcome of the local school levy.

Revenue increases from projected state growth is said to offset the size of the tax hikes approved in 2017 by the Senate, which was controlled by the GOP and pushed the tax hikes to fund basic education as ordered under the very bad McCleary decision.

The tax reduction plan is expected to be voted out of the Senate Rules Committee before heading to the Senate floor, and then to the House by the March 8 end of the session before being signed by Gov. Jay Inslee.

Using a baseline of the median value of $230,000 for a Port Angeles home, the state school levy in 2017 was $481, will increase this year to $690, and would be reduced to an estimated $600 if the new Senate bill passes..

Even republicans mess things up, not all counties are the same nor want the same things, some may vote for levies and others reject them as was the case in Clallam.

February 27, 2018 7:04am

February 21, 2018

Port Angeles Paper Mill Still Mothballed City Has No Money

McKinley Paper in Port Angeles has scaled back it?s plans to refurbish the old Nippon Paper Mill located on the shoreline of west Port Angeles.

McKinley purchased the Japanese owned Nippon in March of 2017 for $20 million including it?s $100 million biomass electricity cogeneration plant after Nippon had ceased production of it?s telephone book paper, it? main function.

The company purchased the plant with in mind it would manufacture cardboard but the market has since gone south, literally, to other world producers.

Company spokespeople are delaying the previously planned month of December 2018 as a startup date, ?that?s not going to happen,? said one, ?we are taking it a day at a time? ?but do hope for a production startup in 2019.?

The City Of Port Angeles is pissed of course because the mill generates $500,000 a year in electric utility taxes into the city?s general fund which is, if only temporarily, in jeopardy and according to city management could lead to layoffs.

The city is working on it?s next budget and the mill was a big revenue producer which is concerning for spenders of other people?s money such as Mayor Sissi Bunch who sadly states that she may now have to finally live within her means and cut out services and, the free donuts and long coffee breaks.

Good thing the small minded, short term thinking idiots did not get their way and the local school levy failed! As I have always advocated and advised, time does not stand still, good times including the good economy, do come to an end.

The ?retooling? of the old mill is still a desire but no company has be hired as of yet to complete the projects needed to bring the old mill up to snuff.

February 21, 2018 7:07am

February 19, 2018

Taxpayers Fed Up With High Property Taxes

Washington Democrats are getting an ear full from homeowners with concerns about the McCleary decision which relies too much on property taxes.

A Senate budget proposal coming this week will include about $400 million in property tax relief and lawmakers vow to pursue legislation next year that would make property tax deferrals available to more homeowners in high cost areas thanks to the McCleary decision, those taxes are becoming way too costly for homeowners.

There?s a proposal in the Washington State House for a capital gains tax that would raise new money to reduce property taxes. Big business is doing very well in the current economy and should be made to contribute a little bit more.

The local voters have sent a clear message that they do not want their taxes raised just so Sarah Methner and other loons can act as though they actually contribute to society. Thank God there are enough educated people to vote the taxes down even if they can?t manage to vote her and the rest of the liberal idiots, out!

February 19, 2018 7:05am

February 14, 2018

Remove Your Sign, You Got Your Ass Kicked, Levy Failed

At the present time the six year proposal for a costly levy for the Port Angeles School District is failing but it is close and more votes are to be counted Friday.

Apparently most voters think as I do and this website which has received hundreds of emails not supporting the loony leftist proposals.

Port Angeles voters do not support a levy that cost the taxpayers millions and do not care about over crowded schools created by illegal aliens.

The loony levy would cost property owners a whopping $2.47 per $1,000 of assessed value from 2019 through 2024.

The supporters claim the extras funds would ease traffic etc but the real thoughts should be to decrease not increase illegal immigrants.

The district?s voters have already been asked several times to pass the loony liberal tax increase and it has failed every time. The loony liberal supporters with these signs in their yards need to get it through their heads you lost again, big time.

February 14, 2018 7:09am

February 9, 2018

Amnesty Loons Crying Foul Over Wanted Immigrunt

Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno, 32, came to the U.S. illegally from Honduras around 2004 and some say has led a criminal free life but was arrested himself when he called police when his car was broken into.

The Honduran immigrant was arrested Thursday himself when Tukwila officers see a warrant from immigration authorities. Now sympathizers wonder it was legal according to liberal Washington State Law and his attorney.

Rodriguez Macarreno called the police regarding the suspicious behavior around his car and officers found a man who they determined to be trespassing but they didn?t have probable cause to arrest him so he was not detained.

The officers did though detained Rodriguez Macarreno. They had run him through the federal National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, which highlights various forms of information including warrants which is SOP.

Liberal Seattle Police however don?t care about ICE care, Tukwila police don?t usually act on ICE information they see in NCIC either, nor do they ask about immigration status but something was different was different regarding Rodriguez Macarreno?s name to dispatchers, who ran it through NCIC, this was federal.

The situation overall different and local officers took the illegal alien Honduran Rodriguez Macarreno and put him in the car, where he should be.

An ICE spokeswoman, Lori Haley, said she could not yet provide information about why it was issued or about Rodriguez Macarreno generally.

Meanwhile, the attorney is trying to figure out a legal strategy for Rodriguez Macarreno and said the Honduran immigrant may apply for asylum as well as pursue his freedom on the grounds that his arrest by Tukwila police was improper.

Can real Americans skirt law and order in this manner?

February 9, 2018 7:29am

February 1, 2018

Liberal Love Flowers and Barriers Won?t Work

An estimated 50 people gathered at the Valley Creek Eighth Street bridge located in Port Angeles and do what liberals who have way too much time on their hands do, bring flowers and candles and wallow in other people?s sorrow.

The vigil was organized by Siouxzie Hinton who lives near the bridge and while wiping tears from her eyes she described a time several years ago when she nearly jumped from the bridge and talked about all of that was just from suffering depression, fighting with her husband and, attempting to quit smoking.

Her mental state seems to be very fragile and hinges on engaging in conversations with another human and that just a hug might keep her from jumping. I hope she gets help!

Port Angeles seems to be filling up with sorry soles, a Greg Kapitan, who recently moved to Port Angeles from Utah, told the crowd he had ?never been touched by suicide until he moved to town? and ?two weeks later, a young girl named Ashley took her life which prompted him to cry for two weeks.?

Poor sole, I wonder if he has a job.

Port Angeles Mayor Sissi Bruch is once again promising to spend millions of dollars ?to try and help the sorry soles and to spread the love, that is what we all need.?

Love is cheap, perhaps that is only what it will take.

February 1, 2018 7:09am

January 26, 2018

Immigration And Customs Need More Tools To Deport Not Less

Washington State, as a sanctuary haven, will no longer ask where a person was born as a precursor to obtaining a driver?s license.

This is a horrible idea and just part of the liberal agenda to protect anyone not legally in America and by any means possible.

The anti-American?s carrying the Mexican flag will not be required to answer any questions pertaining to their status which will also extend to permits and ID cards in an attempt to not subject the illegal people to ICE.

The only ?outrage? being referenced is by the brain dead open border psychos. Real Americans do not think that illegals should even get driver?s licenses much less be protected against Immigration and Customs Enforcement of which need that information so it can be used to help arrest and deport illegal people.

Where the issue may rest is in the area of foreign passport or other documents used to obtain the license applications that might reveal that someone does not have legal status and probably has no rights in real America in the first place.

January 26, 2018 7:05am

January 22, 2018

Port Angeles City Council Votes For Huge Levy

The money grubbing donut eaters are once again asking for your wallets in fact a whopping $46.7 million to fund an unnecessary levy measure of which will be decided again in a special 2018 election to be held in February.

The Port Angeles City Council is in lockstep with the major renovations at Stevens Middle School of which would provide more space at the elementary schools.

Mike French, the biggest idiot to hold a membership since the late 2000s, is a big voice on the issue and wants to spend your money immediately by saying that this can?t wait and that he wants to spend your money as quick a possible.

The levy would add a gigantic $2.47 per $1,000 of assessed valuation to property within the district. The owner of a $200,000 home would pay an additional $494 per year from 2019 through 2024 should the levy pass by simple majority.

?We have to think of our children now and our future generations,? said Councilwoman Cherie Kidd, a Port Angeles native and considered a good council member by those who are not on the run and actually have credibility.

This proposal will be another tax burden on the lower income however and pay for children not theirs. Some can apply for a tax discount but that is also a burden

The good Marolee Smith spoke against the levy along with Dan Shotthafer who is also a good anti tax advocate and states that the council should do what it did in 2015 and stay silent as it did regarding the replacement of Port Angeles High School.

Smith said at the meeting that ?we?ve been taxed to death? ?this hurts. I can?t afford to heat my entire house.? This site agreed with her.

The Clallam County Commissioners also support the measure of course yet all claim to be republicans. Screwy eyes Peach can even see numbers straight.

The levy is also, no surprise, supported by most of the liberals in the community such as Superintendent Marc Jackson who is in full support and Sissi Bunch and her reservation clan who of course support anything taxpayer funded.

Speakers testified in support of the levy, including Steve Methner leader of the pro- tax pro-tax at any cost loons whose wife, gee, is a board member.

New council member and liberal social nutcase Kate Dexter, is also in full support.

What is clearly evident is that all of those who support reaching into your wallets have children in the schools and want you to pay, for their mistakes.

January 22, 2018 7:05am

January 16, 2018

Former Clallam Commissioner McEntire Did One Thing Right

Ex Clallam County Commissioner Jim McEntire will once again throw his hat into the political arena by challenging Democrat Steve Tharinger for the 24th District Position 2 seat, Tharinger had alread defeated McEntire once.

The Republican Party went to McEntire after word was that the Democratic Party is weak in Clallam County and perhaps elsewhere.

Tharinger, Rep. Mike Chapman, Sen. Kevin Van De Wege of Sequim, all left wing loons, have the upper hand in a liberal Washington State.

This site never supported McEntire in the past but will this time though it is still, despite the wishful thinking, an uphill battle in a liberal area and state.

McEntire will campaign on the platform that Tharinger is not serving the district well and
?is not paying too much attention to the economic needs of the district at large,? and he, Tharinger, ?has some things to answer for? including the fact that Washington has the sixth highest per capita [debt] in the country.

One reason this site was and is frustrated with the local GOP is it?s spending habits. This site has always operated under the idea that first have a huge savings account in which to draw then spend from that account instead of raising taxes. Jim McEntire was a huge part of that spending during the years he was a commissioner.

This site has though become somewhat of a fan of the county since it has rid the county of those who file phony lawsuits and for keeping overall spending levels under control.

McEnire is happy that President Trump is in the White House and hopes to ride the strong numbers of the great president who enjoyed high numbers in Western Washington.

January 16, 2018 7:33am

January 9, 2018

Washington State And America Agree With Me

Washington State is now supporting what this site as advocated for years, spend more money and put more effort and resources in its high schools and community colleges which provide a much better life preparation service than do expensive and liberal brain washers which are a waste of time and money.

The state auditor?s office just put out specific recommendations for how to improve the state?s system of ?career and technical education,? or CTE.

Society as a whole is now realizing this and now recognize that not all students need a four six or eight year college degree to get a good job.

The state is now currently going broke paying illegal immigrunts to sit in class rooms all day and not learn anything, the report not only states that the state?s education department could help schools offer classes that teach high demand skills but that this could start at the seventh or eighth grade level.

This used to be known as vocational education and is referred to today as CTE courses but the liberal way of doing things took dominance and thing went down hill from that point by offering every program to every illegal immigrunt in the country and the cost is just becoming way to expensive as most liberal programs do.

The country as a whole is now coming around to my way of thinking with reports admitting that ?providing every student with an academic education in high school is too much of a good thing.?

Previous state audit reports found that students who took two or more CTE courses in high school often landed better jobs, even if they didn?t go to college.

Last week I reported on the debt racked up by the liberal education system which hurts these taxpayer funded looters more than the programs help.

January 9, 2018 7:19am

December 20, 2019

Port Angeles City Council Picks Socialist For Vacant Seat

The already loony liberal Port Angeles City Council picks another loon to fill the seat of the now dead Jim Moran.

LaTrisha Suggs is a 49-year-old who works for the Jamestown S?Klallam Tribe and could not be a better fit for the radical leftists and affirmative action minded council that was looking, not for qualifications, but someone who is an uneducated big spending rubber stamp to help bring in more taxes and homeless to Port Angeles.

The same thing happened back in 2006 when I actually applied for the open seat when Lauren Erickson vacated and the council had picked Edna Peterson, a loony and demented old woman that would do everything she, was told.

The only good news is she can be voted out as was Peterson.

Cherie Kidd, who seems to be the only sensible and sane member these days voted no, saying she favored fellow council member Michael Merideth for the vacant seat, Merideth, though not the perfect conservative, if at all, was a thorn.

Lunatic City Manager Nathan West said ?we are very grateful that LaTrisha has stepped up to serve the citizens,? ?it is not an easy job and we greatly appreciate LaTrisha?s insightful answers reflecting on the promising future of our city.?

Speak for your self you ignorant moron, you should be in jail along with your city clerk and brain dead city attorney who should be told bow ties went extinct centuries ago but perhaps his boyfriend likes demented old men in bow ties.

Two others who were actually ?elected? will add to the other lunatics Mike French who can?t seam to keep employees around and lunatics Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin and the uneducated rubber stamp puppet, Kate Dexter.

Kidd was impressed with Matthew Rainwater and ?his commitment to this community and what he does, and how he does it, and why he does it,? her concern with the tribal member is ?she has never been to any meetings.?

Gee, what does that matter, she is a liberal rubber stamp build more housing for the homeless including for her relatives who probably don?t even speak English.

Suggs brags about managing a multi million dollar budget which of course is real easy to do when she is working with other people?s money. She also thinks income inequality is an issue, perhaps she can start in immediately taking other people?s money so her family can actually finally be able to have a house.

December 20, 2019 5:51am

December 16, 2019

Two Brown Brothers Found Guilty, Big Surprise

Two Seattle brothers, James and Jerome Taafulisia, now 21 and 20, were found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault in connection with the January 26, 2016, shooting spree and also firearm violations.

The fatal shooting was of two people and wounding three others during a January 2016 robbery at ?the Caves,? a former homeless encampment.

The brothers? previous trials had been held at the Maleng Regional Justice Center (RJC) in Kent, while this one was at the King County courthouse in downtown Seattle before a different judge. The previous mistrials were declared in August 2018 and in March, with juries split 8-4 and 9-3 in favor of conviction.

The shootings took place during a robbery of a prolific drug dealer at the encampment, when the brothers were 16 and 17. The Jungle was shut down by the city in October 2016. A younger brother,13 at the time of the shootings, was convicted in juvenile court of murder and assault charges in the case in May 2018.

The convicts are obviously minority as is most crime now committed in the United States and most are deeply involved in other criminal activity such as drugs and during the robbery, the jury heard the Taafulisias didn?t get the haul they anticipated, leaving the camp with only $100 worth of black-tar heroin and $200 or $300 in cash.

This is what Port Angeles has waiting for them due to the liberal feel good let?s invite then feed and give worlds homeless population free homes.

They should not be catered to but castrated, then deported.

December 16, 2019 5:55am

December 2, 2019

Anti White Anti Free Speech Zealots At it Again

The loony liberal socialists and brown ass lovers are now after Spokane Valley and it?s politicians which include the Mayor and Matt Shea.

The anti free speech Skanks are now foaming at the mouth and at the mayor who recently told an audience of fellow conservatives that police should have shot Rodney King and because the crowd did not shout him down the libs, are livid.

Nor was there dissent when a popular pastor urged his congregants during a recent Sunday sermon to gird for war with an anti-Christian government.

Spokane keeps reelecting Matt Shea and that angers the anti free speech zealots. The six-term Republican, who counts the mayor and the doomsday pastor as close allies, wants Eastern Washington to secede and form a 51st state called Liberty embodying his style of Christian values. There is certainly nothing wrong with that!

The state lawmaker who distributed a document last year telling Christians to ?kill all males? if gay people and abortion advocates don?t yield to fundamentalist religious law after the U.S. government collapses commands more influence than his state legislative role would suggest, speaking nationally and attracting wide attention.

The militia proponent and participant in the so-called patriot movement describes the United States as a Christian nation under siege. ?The real threat that we face in this country is Islamists and Marxists and their sympathizers at the local level.?

Shea also told constituents recently. ?We need to reclaim our Christian moral foundation and not be ashamed of it. Gee, can?t let that happen..!

But Shea may be losing his grip in his district and in Spokane Valley, a city of almost 100,000. In elections this month, he lost majority backing on Spokane Valley?s City Council, one of several local bodies that critics describe as having followed his direction and provided political support so now they self castrate and go left.

Washington House Republicans have the same small nuts as the DC GOP, they have stripped him of a party leadership position and some donors have abandoned him.

Shea, who has been in office since 2008, hosts a ?Patriot Radio? talk show on the American Christian Network, but avoids speaking to reporters and addressing the general public in his district. He did not respond to repeated requests for an interview.

Greater Spokane, where Shea was born, combines with Coeur D?Alene, Idaho, to form a region of 720,000 people, more than 85% of whom are white, gee I guess we have to change that real quick, let?s bring in a few thousand Mexicans

December 2, 2019 6:33am

November 4, 2019

Dangerous Destructive Socialist Infest The :Northwest

City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and other socialist are literally calling Bezos and other business owners enemies over the defeated head-tax proposal.

Sawant however did not target the corporation, Amazon she went at the person, Bezos, making it as personal as possible as all good lunatic socialists do.

Bezos though has now caved and are now making donations.

This is a dangerous road that will destroy America and it?s businesses but that apparently just fine with the left coast upper west lunatics.

Every single democrat candidate all want new taxes on everyone.

Now I do not agree with the politics of the Washington Post or Bezos but in the case of Bezos, he might just leave Washington State and relocate in a low tax State such as Texas or Florida if the leftist loons drive away even their own kind.

All of this is caused by immigration, my one main issue I harp on because it is the most destructive force America faces. It is way to liberal and not even halted by President Trump fast enough. Deportations are way down in recent years.

Opening up our borders to a bunch of brown skin low lifes and others to be fair, other liberal globe trotters that have nothing to do but travel around on other peoples money, not only have no loyalty to America they have no way to ever become wealthy themselves so of course they like the idea of free everything.

Port Angeles is also swayed by the liberal loons, a ditzy women spoke to the city council weeks ago and made the lunatics, (and yes I am calling the city employees names, what are you going to do about it) promise to invite more homeless to Port Angeles to fill our streets then use your tax money to build them housing.

November 4, 2019 6:09am

October 14, 2019

Ban Affirmative Action, I Thought ?We Are All Equal?

The Affirmative Action loony left wants attitudes to change and pass this fall a ballot measure that will test whether attitudes have changed in the past 20 years since liberal WA St believe it or not approved I 200 which banned Affirmative Action.

In Nov voters will decide whether to repeal I 1000 which passed the Legislature and that restores affirmative action programs to the state. A yes vote on Referendum 88 would maintain the affirmative action law, while a no vote would abolish it.

This site support repeal.

Allowing those women and minorities gain access to public colleges withour the ability to pay is why the loons are now talking a huge bailout for student loans.

Local residents who are part of the Reject 88 campaign argue that I-1000 would impose what amounts to racial and gender quotas.

Although the text of I-1000 bans quotas or preferential treatment based solely on race, arguments are that its effort to set goals for hiring and contracting amounts to the same thing and the law would be harmful to, Asian Americans.

Most still reject the idea that affirmative action is needed to remedy historical wrongs including slavery and Jim Crow laws despite ongoing disparities in contracting and education and are nothing more than ?government sanctioned discrimination.?

October 14, 2019 6:15am

October 1, 2019

Vaccinate Please, Immigrunts Carry Diseases

Washington State?s new state law could ban thousands of Washington K-12 students from classes if they are not vaccinated from those that carry diseases.

The new law stops loony families from claiming exemptions from vaccinations for many diseases including the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.

With Washington State being a sanctuary state that fights deportations together with the loons that think vaccinations are harmful, the state is now, as with all other loony leftist ideas and policies, making the loons live with their own policies that brought on all of the infections and by the people that had carried the diseases into the state.

Gee, we are nice people up here in Washington State, come one come all, even all of you dirty infected immigrants. Well now health officials have reported 86 cases of the measles so far, the highest number the state has seen since 1990.

California is dealing with outbreaks of diseases not seen in a century.

7,000 students around the sound didn?t have up to date paperwork pertaining to vaccinations in August because personal exemptions are no longer accepted.

School administrators in Vancouver, Washington, which faced a significant measles outbreak with 71 cases earlier this year, are also scrambling to file updated paperwork.

I am still waiting for the Port Angeles School District to respond.

All of this could be solved by allowing and advocated for more, not less, home schooling. This would solve almost all problems raised and caused by public schools.

Public schools no longer educate they indoctrinate and of course, with liberal lunatic ideas with most parents, even conservatives too busy to spend time fighting it.

October 1, 2019 6:14am

August 24, 2019

City of Port Angeles Abbi Fountain Is Biggest Waste Of Funds

When The City of Port Angeles is not sending out extortion letters and violating your property rights it is signing needless and expensive multiyear contracts.

This latest one is a four year contract and with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 997 and gives the local city workers a 2.5 percent cost of living adjustments and annual hourly wage increases not to mention other goodies.

Human Resource and Risk Manager Abbi/Fountain/Gates/Whitehead, who knows what name she will go by next week, is the biggest waste of tax funds however.

Does anyone know what it is exactly she does, the city pays out hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance claims so apparently she is not a very good risk manager.

The ass sitter said the new contract will keep the city ?competitive? and ?up to speed? and that ?these are the guys keeping our lights on??

Perhaps the City should think about that when they vote to prohibit and ban property owners from topping trees on their own property.

Council member Mike French, who use to live by a contributor to this site and whose kids used to trespass through neighboring properties, said at the meeting that, ?I know that the citizens of Port Angeles very much appreciated the IBEW Local 997 during our windstorm and our winter storms over this last season.?

French himself is an electrician and should have recused himself!

City Manager Nathan West agreed however stating ?it?s extremely important that we?re consistently maintaining trees that are adjacent or abutting our power line system.?

Others mentioned the windstorms yet most members also support banning tree topping on private property after a tree hugger paid a visit.

Meanwhile, they voted a $125,000 contract to Asplundh Tree Expert Co. of Woodinville to trim trees around electrical lines, something this site has advocated.

Perhaps they can start with the trees on North M St and with the power lines that run to the mill before that all comes down and shorts thing out.

But the questions remain, why can?t home owners choose whether or not to top trees on their own property?

Perhaps this is another case of a contradictory ordinance and unenforceable mandate.

On one hand the ordinance mandates to maintain vegetation in right of ways yet now they are telling people to not, maintain trees and shrubs!

The nuisance ordinance also states ?property owners ?are to ?abate? defects? including ?naturally occurring holes? ?in the city right of way parking strips,? yet no municipality including Port Angeles can or does, enforce the concept.

Cities do not enforce the ?abatement? mandate but that did not stop Port Angeles from sending out an extortion letter over a ?naturally occurring hole? in the right of way nor Abbi Fountain/Gates/Whitehead from threatening them that it is they, the property owners, that are to repair sidewalks of which could require permits.

Because one extortion attempt did not work however the city now refuses to fill a car size sink hole in the city right of way parking strip and directly in a walking path.

August 24, 2019 6:53am

August 15, 2019

Landlords To Pay For Domestic Violence

It?s not uncommon for landlords to bill for property damage even for domestic violence, holes in walls, broken windows in rental units costs from this kind of damage can mount until they?re in collections, or turn into evictions.

Some domestic advocates and anti landlord loons want to protect tenants against such bills. Proposed legislation would bar landlords from charging abused tenants for this kind of damage if they have documented evidence that it resulted from a domestic violence abuser, even if it didn?t occur during an act of domestic violence.

What ever happened to personal responsibility, life?s choices?

Among people experiencing homelessness who were surveyed in this year?s regional one-night count, 13% of families with children identified domestic violence as the cause of their homelessness after facing court ordered evictions.

After the evictions, nearly 90 percent reported living with friends or family, in shelters or transitional housing, or without other forms of shelter.

Advocates claim that those accused of abuse sometimes deliberately damage property to exert control over their victims. State law allows survivors to break a lease if necessary but people experiencing domestic violence often lose their security deposits, or get stuck with enormous bills, when they do thus also hurting their credit.

Tenant and abuse advocates want to keep landlords from charging tenants who experience abuse or deducting the money from their security deposits so long as a qualified third party files a written report describing the cause of the damage.

The landlord doesn?t seem to get any respect.

Under proposals, the landlord could only recover up to $5,000 in damages and allow survivors to keep their entire security deposit. Landlords seem to be few in numbers but criticized the idea as a ?blank check that the landlord has to pay.?

The advocates for this new proposal(s) are looking to see if this bill can create a path that facilitates the ability of a landlord to pursue damages against the abuser.

Advocates want the legislation to apply to damage caused by the abuser regardless of whether it occurred during an act of domestic abuse.

This site take the position that it takes two to sign the rental agreement.

August 15, 2019 6:33am

August 2, 2019

Loony Liberal Anti Tim Eyman Nuts At It Again

News reports are that a fall ballot measure to cut car-tab costs across Washington state would blow a $4 billion hole in local and state transportation funding.

It claims that local governments could lose about $2.3 billion and the state could lose about $1.9 billion over the next six years if Initiative 976 is passed.

I-976 is backed by perennial anti-tax initiative sponsor Tim Eyman and will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. Eyman who said, ?there?s just a tap-out moment.?

In past years lawmakers from both parties have said they support reducing car tabs but failed to reach an agreement on how to do that.

By cutting car tabs, vehicle sales taxes and other fees, the initiative would hit multiple state accounts. Among them: pots of money that fund some Washington State Patrol activities; state ferry maintenance; highway construction; county roads and bridges; and bike and pedestrian projects.

Opponents also claim the measure also threatens projects at the local level as routine as building sidewalks, repaving streets and installing flashing yellow lights in school zones.

Dozens of cities across the state that use car-tab fees to fund transportation projects. The city raises about $3 million a year from a $20 fee, which local governments would no longer have the authority to impose if the initiative passes.

Tacoma, for example, has used the money for paving and maintaining streets, building missing sidewalks and installing beacons near public schools. The car-tab money makes up about 12% of the city?s street maintenance budget and is enough to fund about 40 blocks of street paving a year.

Eyman objects to transportation benefit districts created by local governments without a public vote, and argues other revenue sources are available.

?If the initiative doesn?t pass, it?s essentially a validation of state and local governments jacking up car tabs,? Eyman said. ?There?s no reason to think they?re going to stop where they are now.?

This site supports Tim Eyman and the anti tax initiative.

August 2, 2019 6:33am

July 23, 2019

Port Angeles City Council To Make You Pay For Housing

Loony Liberal City Council member Mike French wants a sales tax increase that would be in association with a sales tax credit from the state.

Local State Reps. Mike Chapman, D-Port Angeles and Steve Tharinger, D-Port Townsend supported and signed into law May 9 House Bill 1406 which encourages ?investments in affordable and supportive housing.?

Tax credits are not the panacea the loony French and the rest of the loons think it is, taxpayers still have to pay the tax and receive very little credit

The tax would need to be put on the ballot and the voters would have to approved it, the city would then create an affordable housing fund.

Loony Council member Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin also wants to sock it to taxpayers to pay for her homeless friends and family that need ?affordable housing.?

Council member Cherie Kidd it seems is the only normal member left and said a proposal to raise taxes would require ?a lot of explanation.?

The housing crunch is state wide because the liberals in Washington State bring in more and more low lives immigrants thus are creating a vicious circle.

July 23, 2019 6:31am

July 16, 2019

Port Angeles City Council Wants To Control Your Property

The council was asked by a tree hugger to hire a code enforcement officer to enforce how and when a property owner can trim a tree and wants them, a property owner, to replace trees that they, a property owner, removes and no longer wants.

All of this came about when The City of Port Angeles staff performed an early morning raid on January 3 2019 to remove a 110 foot sequoia from Lions Park.

Never mind the fact that the tree the City officials removed posed a safety risk and its roots were causing damage to nearby property.

But none of this was mentioned at the last meeting to avoid the action being televised on a local access channel, the city is the one that removed a tree.

The tree hugger mentioned that ?many cities limit the number of trees a property owner can remove in a single year.? Some, such as Port Angeles, also have ordinances that state adjacent property owners must ?abate? city right of way defects which is also unlawful.

More on that later!

This tree hugger, Bornsworth, is mad because a property owner dared to remove 15 large and healthy trees from his own property without Bornsworth?s permission.

Liberal Nut Mayor Sissi Bruch, a fellow tree hugger, seems to be in the pocket of Bornsworth and is also upset that ?a rash of trees were being topped all over the city.?

Could it possibly be that the trees were getting into power lines?

Bornsworth states that ?topped trees significantly raise the risk of tree failure and property damage, reduce property values, create a negative public perception and decrease neighborhood character.?

As a man who has been a landscaper and contractor and more importantly, a property owner, I am concerned about my rights and let me tell you that big trees are a major problem in many areas and should be removed to avoid, property damage!

A code compliance officer needs to be hired but not to stop the tree topping along city streets and sidewalk of which are causing all of the issues by dropping needles and leaves in the streets, but they also then force not only the city crews to use my tax money to sweep and clear out drains but also cause me to clean up after my neighbor?s trees.

July 16, 2019 6:29am

July 12, 2019

Liberal King County Once Again Protects Aliens

In February 2018, King County passed a pro illegal immigrunt law prohibiting the sharing of information with immigration officials without a warrant.

Over the next year however Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers continued to access an online jail database more than 1,000 times.

In doing their jobs, the officers were able to see photos, physical descriptions, addresses and aliases etc for many bookings into King County jails.

In some cases, jail officials also collected citizenship information but the information was not obtained with informed consent and could be subject to a data breach anti ICE advocates hope.

In addition, the county sheriff?s office gave ICE two dozen unredacted case files between January 2018 and May 2019, according to the report.

The state Department of Licensing was routinely sharing photos and driver?s license applications with ICE, unbeknownst to Gov. Jay Inslee, who had ordered state officials not to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

?ICE does not comment on investigation techniques,? ICE spokeswoman Tanya Roman said in a statement. It also criticized sanctuary policies, such as the ordinance passed by the County Council. ?ICE maintains that cooperation by local agencies is an indispensable component of promoting public safety.?

ICE should be allow and given all available methods to jail then deport all illegal brown people that illegally crossed our border.

July 12, 2019 6:39am

July 8, 2019

Local Education Gap(s)

The high school education gap between rural and urban residents narrowed between 2000 and 2015, but the college completion gap got wider. Students in rural areas nationwide are now about as likely to earn their high school diplomas as their urban peers.

Washington state?s move to make college free for many low income students will help more of them complete degrees, but officials also want to make sure more students of color can get those degrees and, ultimately, high paying jobs.

Colleges across the state aim to help these students get enough information about all the credentials they can receive, and the careers they can pursue with them.

Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the United States. Despite how widespread it is, very few people understand it. That?s why the folks at NPR Ed launched the ?Unlocking Dyslexia? series to explore how it affects people?s lives.

No one I know has the infliction but it is very common. Places and areas like Port Angeles and Clallam County as a whole are not testing for it nor have a good track record for educating their students as the more urban school districts are.

July 8, 2019 6:33am

June 28, 2019

Meth Not Going Away, Worst Than Ever

Cheap meth is back and bigger than ever in Washington State particularly western Washington. The needles proliferating the sidewalks are usually from heroin use however, a bigger proportion of those needles in recent years is actually from people injecting methamphetamine and leaving the remnants behind.

Now, more people are dying in Washington from methamphetamine than during the height of the last meth wave in the early 2000s. Rates of death from meth were four times higher in 2017 than in 2005, right before Congress passed regulations to stop its production. The increase has almost entirely taken place in the last seven years.

In recent years, more meth has been smuggled into Washington in secret compartments,
such as the one hidden in this tire, seized in the Tacoma area. (DEA)

While heroin has dominated the drug conversation in King County, meth has crept up and quietly surpassed it. Last year, for the first time, more people in King County died with meth in their systems than heroin, 164 versus 156. (That doesn?t include illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, which was found in another 65 dead people last year.)

Meth is incredibly pure, cheaper and more available than heroin.

What?s distressing is as the meth epidemic has risen to stand alongside the heroin epidemic, those that shake heroin?s addiction get themselves hooked on meth.

Mexican Drug Cartels have also stepped in, making more and more meth in ?superlabs? in Mexico and shipping it, along with heroin and fentanyl, up Interstate 5 hidden away in tires, paint cans and hidden compartments in semi-trucks.

In one fourweek period this spring, the DEA seized 400 pounds of meth in the Pacific Northwest.

What used to be primarily a drug used by white people in the Western United States is moving eastward and into American cities, seeing more use by people of color and people living on the streets.

While many people who use meth are not homeless, homeless drug users are using more meth because it?s cheap and easy, and because the stimulant helps them survive, users can stay vigilant at night when they?re scared of being robbed.

All horrible thoughts!

June 28, 2019 6:57am

June 20, 2019

Tariffs Will Hurt Northwest Industry

The site has never supported tariffs and other than the current stock market rise, President Donald Trump?s trade war is chilling business investment, confidence and trade flows across the world, a development that foreign leaders and business executives say is worsening a global economic slowdown that was already underway.

Weakness in China, driven in part by fallout from the trade war, has spread to Germany, Australia and other nations, raising supply chain costs, chilling exports and worrying political and economic leaders.

The president?s aggressive approach to trading partners comes as developed and developing nations are already pulling back on the rapid globalization that dominated two decades of economic policymaking.

Trump has made steady use of tariffs to punish trading partners like China, Europe, Canada and Mexico that he says have destroyed American jobs by flooding the United States with cheap products and erecting unfair economic barriers at home.

Trump has repeatedly cited China?s slowdown as proof that his trade war is working, telling reporters last week that the United States has ?picked up $14 trillion in net worth of the United States.?

But a slowdown in the world?s second largest economy one that?s deeply enmeshed in global trade networks affects other economies.

China is the biggest trading nation in the world, the idea that you could slow down the global growth engine and not affect other countries is just not credible.

Washington State and the entire northwest is being hurt in it?s fishing, grain and dairy industries.

The tariffs that are in place now, and which may be in place for some time, are a significant burden on U.S. businesses and farms.

We are experiencing the biggest decline in the world auto market in 20 years.

June 20, 2019 6:33am

June 7, 2019

A Great Local Sheriff Will Continue Arresting Immigrunts

A Spokane County Sheriff, Ozzie Knezovich, has said he won?t follow a new state law that prohibits local officials from helping federal agents enforce immigration laws.

Knezovich, a Republican, also contended Monday that Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee should be arrested for obstruction of justice after signing the law last month.

The new law was passed by the Legislature this year on a mostly partisan vote and was designed partly to support the role of immigrants in the state?s economy.

But Knezovich said the new law sets up Washington as a ?sanctuary state? and would prevent his officers from working with federal officials in preventing crime committed by people in the country illegally.

The law gave immigrants certain employment rights regardless of citizenship status. It also directed state law enforcement not to assist in enforcement of federal registration programs that target residents based on immigration or citizenship.

The Legislature found that it is not the primary purpose of state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce civil federal immigration law and that a person cannot be arrested or detained solely for determining their immigration status or held on a civil immigration warrant.

Knezovich said local loony Democrats mad at President Trump drove lawmakers to pass it but Federal immigration law is the same as it was under Presidents Barack Obama and will instruct Spokane County deputies to continue contacting federal officials.

While Knezovich has said Inslee should be charged with obstruction of justice for signing the law, he hasn?t provided details over how that should happen.

That?s unfortunate!

June 7, 2019 7:12am

June 3, 2019

Students Love Charter Schools, NO To Levies And Bonds

Far from any school board meeting, courtroom or rally about who controls public education, the students at one of Washington?s most contested schools spent a recent morning much like their peers across the state.

Shrieks of terror, followed by peals of laughter, filled a biology lab where ninth graders dissected frogs and sketched their findings. Upstairs, seniors gathered in small book clubs to discuss ?The Color Purple.? The Color Purple???

And before nearly 400 hungry teenagers poured into the cafeteria, Kamaria Lyles sat at an empty table and pondered what it meant that in just 17 days she would join about 100 of her classmates as the first ever graduates of a public charter school in Washington State.

Since the Summit Sierra high school opened four years ago in Seattle?s International District, ?founding? students like Lyles have been exposed to a different kind of education, not necessarily because of the school?s unique structure. Different because they spent the past four years fighting for their school?s survival and in the process gained what they described as a sense of leadership and self advocacy.

Lyles, for example, will host a financial literacy workshop for her classmates so they know how to build good credit and pay off student loans quickly after college. As of Friday, about 97 percent of the school?s graduating seniors received acceptance letters from a four-year college or university, founding principal Malia Burns said.

As a freshman, Lyles said, ?I remember all the arguments about whether our school is constitutional. Nowadays, it?s more like, come on, we?re just here. We?re just trying to learn and reach the goals we set for ourselves four years ago.?

Currently, 3,300 students are enrolled at Washington?s 12 charter schools, according to the Washington State Charter Schools Association.

The Washington Supreme Court only last year granted its blessing to charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run. But even as that legal victory and the first class of graduates at Summit Sierra and a sister campus in Tacoma symbolize a triumph for charter school supporters, the nascent sector?s future isn?t entirely rosy.

In less than a month, financial constraints will shutter a separate charter school in Tacoma. A legislative proposal to secure more money for charter schools died in Olympia after the powerful state teachers union weighed in. And nationally, Democratic Bernie Sanders recently pitched his plan to cut taxpayer funding.

At Summit Sierra, each grade level splits into smaller groups of students that regularly meet with the same mentoring teacher through all four years. Many seniors credited those intimate groups for providing the support they needed to succeed.

But that level of support may not be easy to find on a college campus, especially for students who are the first in their family to seek a higher degree, said Burns.

June 3, 2019 7:15am

May 24, 2019

Tim Eyman Has Shady Friends

The signature gathering firm Citizen Solutions and one of its officers have been found liable in a lawsuit that claims they secretly paid antitax crusader Tim Eyman from funds they received to gather signatures for Eyman?s initiative drives.

Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon granted a motion for default against Citizen Solutions and William Agazarm, after they ?willfully and deliberately? failed to follow court orders and discovery rules over the course of 18 months. Neither Citizen Solutions nor Agazarm appeared at the hearing at which Dixon announced his order, nor did they send an attorney on their behalf.

Eyman, who is also a defendant but has been more cooperative with the court?s orders, is not affected and has been representing himself in the case.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued Citizen Solutions, Agazarm and Eyman in 2017, alleging a years long scheme in which Eyman solicited more money for his signature-gathering campaigns than was needed, and then secretly ? in violation of campaign finance laws ? got paid kickbacks from Citizen Solutions.

In his May 17 order, Dixon says Citizen Solutions and Agazarm have essentially ignored court orders and obligations since the lawsuit was filed. Citizen Solutions has been in contempt of court for 15 months, racking up $175,000 in fines.

Those fines ?have had no appreciable effect?so the greater sanction of a default is warranted,? Dixon wrote. He also granted Ferguson?s request for Agazarm and Citizen Solutions to cover the state?s attorney fees in the case. Other potential sanctions will be considered at a future hearing, Dixon said.

?This order finds Eyman?s associates liable for their role in Tim Eyman?s kickback scheme,? Ferguson said in a prepared statement. ?This sends a message that you can?t deceive Washington voters and get away with it.?

This site though reports the facts also still supports the Great Tim Eyman!

May 24, 2019 7:15am

May 17, 2019

Once Again Liberal Loons Anti Property Owner

The affordable housing crisis is spreading beyond Seattle so liberal loony Washington lawmakers this year took steps to spur building and improve laws for renters to help prevent them from becoming homeless.

They also passed bills intended to reduce evictions and require landlords to give longer notice to tenants being told to move.

This is total socialism and anti property owner.

And the new 2019-21 state capital budget provided $175 million for the Housing Trust Fund, which goes toward building or maintaining affordable housing units.

Senate Bill 5600 extends the eviction notice period to two weeks, up from the current law of three days and it bans eviction for nonpayment of fees, and directs that payments go to rent before fees.

The bill, signed last week by Gov. Jay Inslee, also provides new authority to judges that would allow them to temporarily halt evictions based on factors like a tenant?s good faith effort to pay.

Gee ?good faith,? so how can landlords take that to their creditors.

All of this is going to do is force landlords to quit the rental business.

May 17, 2019 7:09am

May 8, 2019

H-1B Visas Decline Under President Trump

President Donald Trump?s promised crackdown on the H-1B visa had a dramatic impact last year, federal data that shows immigration officials denied nearly one out of every four requests for new visas for skilled foreign workers.

That?s the highest denial rate for new H-1B visa applications in nearly 10 years and almost double the 13% rate in the prior fiscal year.

The data, which tracks H-1B visa approvals and denials since 2009, was released by the Trump administration last month as it seeks to carry out a pledge to reform the visa to better protect American workers under the president?s ?Buy American and Hire American? executive order.

?It appears that the administration?s efforts are working,? said Sarah Pierce, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

However, after comparing the 2018 denial rate for new visas with 2016, the last fiscal year under the administration of former President Barack Obama, Pierce said the increase is not being ?felt evenly? across firms that seek new visas.

Looking at the nation?s top 30 H-1B employers, Pierce?s analysis found that among so-called H-1B dependent companies, where at least 15% of the workforce has the visa, denials of new visas increased from about 4% in 2016 to 42% in 2018. The majority of those H-1B dependent companies were outsourcing, staffing and consulting companies, which traditionally receive huge numbers of new H-1B visas every year.

?The Trump administration has taken some positive steps to clean up the program,? Hira said. ?They should be taking much more significant steps. We haven?t had the major overhaul of the H-1B program that President Trump promised in his first 100 days.?

The federal data shows that the total number of new H-1B visas approved last year declined almost 9% from the preceding year, to 87,900. Although there is an annual cap on H-1Bs, it does not include exempt employers, such as universities and research nonprofits.

In addition to visa totals, denials and approvals, the new data contains information about whether each application for a new H-1B visa or an extension received an initial approval or denial. Applications for which a decision is still pending are not included.

May 8, 2019 6:20am

April 30, 2019

Finally, Reduction In Enrollment, Schools Closing, Good

The Clallam School districts have recently cut costs which of course is a good thing but others are also facing not only cuts in costs but reductions in attendance.

The North Kitsap school board on Thursday approved a resolution authorizing up to $3 million in cuts, including 20 teaching positions, if necessary.

Despite increased state spending last year on K-12 public education, North Kitsap School District is among a number of Washington state districts projecting a shortfall for the upcoming school year.

Other local districts coming up short in 2019-20 are Bremerton and Bainbridge Island. South Kitsap is budgeting "conservatively" in anticipation of declining local revenue and lower enrollment. Central Kitsap School District is projecting a balanced budget.

Declining enrollment in North Kitsap is one factor in the dreary budget outlook and hopefully that will be the case here in Clallam County.

District officials are waiting for the Legislature to finalize the state budget so they can make a more firm projection for the upcoming school year. The House and Senate reached a budget agreement Thursday, but details weren?t immediately made available.

In addition to the 20 teaching positions (some of which could be eliminated through teachers retiring), the package of potential cuts includes two administrative positions, two "student support" staff, reductions in copying and curriculum budgets, transportation efficiencies (including "staffing to need") and fee increases.

With declining enrollment, the districts lose money the state allocates per student, resulting in declining revenue. At the same time, the district faces increasing personnel costs. Salaries and benefits make up nearly 85 percent of the district's budget.

The state last year however added funding for school salaries, of course and North Kitsap negotiated wage packages with its unions that district officials say are competitive with market conditions in the Puget Sound region.

Just when things were going good, now the loony libs just passed a huge tax increase!

April 30, 2019 6:20am

April 22, 2019

MAGA Hats May Be The Next Ban In Port Angeles

Port Angeles Council Member Schromen-Wawrin seems upset that a taxpayer actually dared to utilize his first amendment rights.

The liberal loons have responded to a loony snowflake who apparently melted and now needs to go visit her shrink because someone somewhere, wore a t shirt.

The ?Firm 22? insignia on a t shirt is apparently a sign of the end of the world by the Anti-Defamation League, a gang who are also embroiled in controversy.

The Port Angeles Police Department received no reports of residents being confronted by ?racist? groups? but apparently the local liberal loons are so into inclusion they are excluding everyone but the most far out far leftist and real terrorists, Antifa.

This lunatic Schromen-Wawrin said recently that ?when a group of people walk through our town opening displaying white supremacist or neo-Nazi insignia, we need to speak up and say that is not OK.?

Question for the lunatic, so what is your next move, an all out ban for all attire except for clothing approved by you and the rest of the local far out far left lunatics?

Apparently ?a large group? of very intimidating people? were being, obnoxious?

Heaven Forbid!

But if being simply obnoxious is now ban from society because the loony snowflakes might melt and if a business gets upset because someone is not on their best behavior then why then is it not o k for the right leaning businesses to refuse to serve gays and or ban brown people or blacks or anyone for ?hoodies? from businesses in America?

Here is a comment on the PDNs website under this report, is speaks volumes.

?Being obnoxious is now a "hate crime"? A group of skinheads walking down the street is now a "hate crime"? Despite the egregious "hate crimes" blatantly and openly committed in town this weekend the police received no reports? Hmm. I think this may be another example of there being such a shortage of hate crimes that the left has to manufacture them. Was this called in by Jussie Smollett??

April 22, 2019 5:20am

April 15, 2019

Home Schooling No Longer Just For The Rich And Christian

The school system that seems to be set up to elevate students from more traditional white and middle class households are being explored by some black families, swearing off both public and private schools and have chosen to home school their children.

In fact more and more families and kids are feeling devalued and are a part of a nationwide trend as more families of colors choose home school.

Across the U.S., the number of home schoolers reached 1.69 million as of 2016, the most recent year of data available from the National Center for Education Statistics. The number of white home schoolers grew about 56% between 1999 and 2016, while the number of black home schoolers grew a bit faster at 57%.

What about Hispanic students? Their participation in home school soared nearly 500% since 1999. The count of home-schoolers identifying as an ?other? race climbed more than 300%.

Once seen as the exclusive domain of right wing Christian families, the group of families who are choosing to opt out of traditional public schools is growing more diverse.

Though no data is available, preliminary research suggests that students who identify as LGBTQ are taking advantage of home schooling as an opportunity to escape the bullying, peer pressure and shaming that are endemic to many public schools.

The same is true for some Muslim families here in Washington State and among three specific communities, black families, families of students with disabilities and Muslim families have pulled their children out of public schools to avoid bullying.

The liberals are the ones that wanted a more diverse country and now they realize what happens once the loonies get their wishy washy wishes.

April 15, 2019 6:47am

April 8, 2019

Levy Bill Implodes

A bill that might have given Washington school districts some flexibility about how much money they can raise locally imploded following a series of late night votes Tuesday.

The powerful and over paid state teachers union responded swiftly, and with ire. And now, the fate of the original proposal remains unclear as lawmakers work against the clock to reach a final budget agreement before the end of the month.

Teachers are angered that the bill Senate Bill 5313 is likely doomed. That legislation would allow districts to raise their local property tax levies, but the amendments would have funneled more money to charter schools which are publicly funded but privately run and set new teacher pay restrictions.

The latter move although an attempt to avoid resurrecting the decade long McCleary school finance case drew immediate criticism from the Washington Education Association, which represents teachers.

A union spokeswoman said that for the first time in years, their folks began to earn professional competitive wages and that this takes that effort backward.?

In 2017, a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to cut local property tax levies in order to offset a statewide tax hike to boost spending on public schools. But districts have warned the cut went too far, and as of late 2018, 85 percent of districts expect to face a budget shortfall.

Still, some lawmakers have blamed financial stress on the double digit pay raises that districts negotiated with their teachers unions last summer.

The reliance on local levies to fund a state responsibility prompted the Supreme Court?s ruling in the McCleary case, which ended last year after lawmakers added billions of dollars to the K-12 budget.

But many Republicans, and some Democrats, worry that lifting the local levies without restricting TRI pay will spark ?a McCleary 2.0.?

Who cares, just don?t raise new taxes levies or bonds!

April 8, 2019 6:33am

March 28, 2019

Lead In School Water

A new national report says Washington and many other states are not doing enough to remove lead from drinking water in public schools and preschool centers.

And once again, the Legislature has failed to act to fund testing at the state?s schools.

This refrain is getting old: Every school should test its water for lead and other dangerous substances and then spend whatever it takes to mitigate the problem.

The state Health Department made a rule in 2009 calling for environmental testing in public schools but decided it wouldn?t be enforced until the state paid for it. Exposure to lead in old plumbing and paint is particularly dangerous to children. This problem is too important to ignore any longer.

Many local districts are testing water inside their schools, despite the lack of state money. Since 2004, Seattle has voluntarily tested all sources of drinking water at each school at least once every three years. Seattle parents who worry about recent reports of lead in the water at district schools should recognize that knowledge of a problem that can be fixed is infinitely preferable to the lack of information in some districts.

While the Legislature should have fixed this years ago, school districts also need to take responsibility for the health of their students and prioritize water testing for lead.

State health officials have estimated lead testing would cost about $2,270 per school, or about $5 million statewide. Most school districts have a budget for building repairs and maintenance. Lead testing, replacing old water fixtures and installing filters should take priority over other maintenance that is not crucial to the health of children.

Disappointingly, the Legislature failed to enact House Bill 1860 this year, which would have mandated testing in every school building every three years and would have required installation of special filters on all faucets, fountains or other water outlets used for drinking or cooking, after elevated lead levels are found. The bill never even received a hearing.

This proposal from Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-Seattle, is exactly the kind of action called for in the report released last week by advocate groups Environment America Research and Policy Center and U.S. PIRG Education Fund. Those groups gave Washington and 21 other states an ?F? for failing to protect students from drinking lead contaminated water.

Lawmakers have failed to act on similar proposals nearly every year this past decade.

So what else is new??

March 28, 2019 6:33am

March 21, 2019

No New Levies Or Low Income Housing

The Port Angeles City Council wants to raise your property taxes again and has voted to do just that including a levy to pay for new programs.

The targeted program is a new code enforcement officer, department, but can?t figure out how to pay for it but we all know how they will?

Their plan would bring in over $135,000 per year.

The good news is it will go to the voters in November.

Those members that do not want this huge tax increase site affordable housing as the excuse to vote against it and those in favor say it is ?fairly reasonable price to pay for improving our neighbors? livelihoods by having some code enforcement.?

Those in favor say the council should own up to the ?revenue failure? but what they should own up to is the spending failures of which is mostly salaries of which do not get a vote by the taxpayers.

The double talkers say they are opposed to higher property taxes but, of course support the current levy lid lift.

Other funding options did not get much debate, one would use fines and fees to implement the new code compliance program and the other is traffic safety camera program, meaning red light traffic tickets.

Some oppose these other options and some approve saying this is more big brother as if tax increases and levies are not.

Officials say they need the tax increase to pay for the code compliance and that ?individuals and businesses already pay in the form of diminished property values.?

Properties diminish because of the city?s same open door lets be nice and bring in more rodents policies that are now destroying Seattle of which The SPD strongly oppose.

March 21, 2019 7:15am

March 15, 2019

Liberal Loons Want To Change Time

The state Senate approved a measure to get Washington off the time changing seesaw and adopt DST year round.

A Bad idea for those who are morning people.

A similar bill passed the state House on last Saturday.

The bills, which have ?broad bipartisan support,? passed both chambers easily. They differ from one another primarily in that the Senate bill calls for voter approval at the next general election.

Apparently people think it is too cumbersome to change their clocks.

Another reason they want to match the rest of the loony west coast.

Experts in depression and sleep science aren?t as jazzed about the idea however.

Law Makers however say they understands the concerns raised by academics but studies have shown the negative health effects of daylight saving are minimal.

Washington state will need ?buy in? from Congress to make this change. Federal law allows states to opt into standard time permanently, as Hawaii and Arizona have, but staying on daylight time as Washington is proposing would require congressional buy in.

Lets hope congress doesn?t have the money for the, ?buy in.?

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump tweeted that making daylight saving time permanent is ?O.K. with me!?

Another reason, when conservatives include the Amnesty he just signed on February 15 2019, to not vote for the brain dead idiot.

March 15, 2019 7:22am

March 7, 2019

WA ST Further Cracks Down On Guns

Attorney General Bob Ferguson warns county sheriffs in rural areas that have said they would not enforce the new stricter gun laws approved last year.

Gun dealers are still responsible for following the law, which bars the sale of semi-automatic rifles to anyone under 21 and requires enhanced background checks for those guns despite what the sheriffs say they will not enforce.

The sheriffs claim the new law approved by voters, Initiative 1639, is ?unconstitutional? but a letter sent to all dealers, approx 292, by both the AG and Governor explains that there is to be no misunderstanding of the law caused local elected officials.

In fact any law is in effect until a [court] declares it ?unconstitutional.? No court has declared Initiative 1639 unconstitutional.

The letter further explains, warns, that ?we have a Supreme Court who will make a decision about the constitutionality of this law.?

The NRA and the Bellevue based Second Amendment Foundation have since filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming the law violates the U.S. and WA ST constitutions.

In the mean time, sheriffs in 13 counties, could be held liable if they refuse to perform the enhanced background checks required by I-1639 and someone who shouldn?t buy a gun is able to buy one and uses it in a crime.

At least 13 county sheriffs have said they won?t enforce I-1639, although few have been clear on which parts of the wide ranging law they?re referring to. Several sheriffs who?ve said they won?t enforce the law have said they have no problem with the enhanced background checks and will conduct them without objection.

The new law also can hold gun owners responsible, in certain circumstances, if their gun was stored carelessly and is used in a crime.

Most of the new law has not yet gone into effect. Only the higher age limit raised from 18 to 21 is now in effect; the rest of the law goes into effect July 1.

Earlier this week, Ferguson sent a second letter to county sheriffs intending to clear up widespread misunderstanding regarding the requirements and status of the new law.

The new law does not require guns to be stored in a specific way and does not require law enforcement to investigate how guns are stored. It also does not hold gun owners liable for a stolen gun that is then used in a crime, provided the gun is reported stolen.

This site is not a firearm enthusiasts and does not object to the new law as whole, as always however, far reaching unconstitutional liberalism is a concern.

March 7, 2019 7:03am

February 26, 2019

Good News, Port Angeles Schools To Lay Off Thousands

The Port Angeles School District has to address a $2.6 million budget deficit in the coming year(s), thus the Superintendent, Martin Brewer has announced that the district will eliminate a multitude of staff that will not include sports.

Officials claim this will reduce classes and increase the sizes of the class rooms.

The new administrator, who had replaced the old one who, had ran the district into the ditch, is doing the right thing in cutting instead of asking for more money.

Personnel will be cut , I would also suggest closing schools and further restrict busing, the poor little snowflakes do not need a 30 second ride to their front doors. I had to walk two miles to and two miles from school and look how I turned out.

The county voters, as the new administrator has quickly learned, do not want and will not vote for higher taxes and he can thank the other local governments for that, they raise every time Cheri Kidd and or others loons want to increase liberal programs making school fund then suffer the consequences, there is only so much!

Administrator Brewer has to deal with ?McCleary? and the teacher?s unions who have also been a big thorn in the side of, all Americans. Brewer said he rightly made a commitment to announce to each affected employee, well in advance.

McCleary capped local levies, some like the decision some do not, if it closes schools and rids the counties of clogged roads and trouble causers, I support it.

I have stressed through the years that personnel is always the biggest costs, unions being the problem and Brewer who says he is ?totally against? raising local levy rates as a remedy to the unintended consequences, seems to agree, with both thoughts.

Clallam voters have also rejected many attempts by the local loons to raise levies and bonds for old dilapidated building of which should not be tried again.

When voters have a straight stand alone vote, they vote against taxes.

Brewer should perhaps consider closing one taxpayer funded school and turn it into a private and or charter for those that want and choose to pay for education.

February 26, 2019 7:11am

February 21, 2019

Liberal Law Makers Focus On ?Universal? Health Care

Democratic voters are going nuts now, again, trying to get other tax payers to fund their bad habits that lead to illnesses and state legislators, the liberals are complying, introducing bills to make substantial health-care changes.

But lawmakers have limited time, political capital and money to put toward priorities in this year?s regularly scheduled 105 day legislative session and there is a debate even within the Democratic Party that?s playing out around America.

Lawmakers are scheduled in June to receive a final report of a state study on universal health care but groups are looking to find agreement on how best to actually implement a ?universal coverage? though Gov Inslee was cool to the prospect of implementing universal coverage anytime soon. He said lawmakers should concentrate on a public option because, ?It?s something that?s achievable now.?

Inslee has said he supports universal coverage but he is now running for president and has described his proposal as only a ?first step? toward universal coverage.

Public option has experienced double digit premium increases and efforts by Republicans and President Donald Trump to roll back the Affordable Care Act.

Currently, 14 Washington counties have just one insurance option on the exchange. Those are: Asotin, Chelan, Clallam, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield, Grays Harbor, Island, Okanogan, Pacific, Pend Oreille, San Juan, Skagit and Wahkiakum counties.

This site supports either no government or all government, involvement.

February 21, 2019 7:11am

February 15, 2019

Late Charges Overturn Manslaughter Conviction

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the manslaughter conviction of a Spokane man because the charges against him were amended near the end of the trial, violating the defendant?s constitutional rights.

A 33 year old man in 2016 was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for stabbing a 35 year old to death with a knife during a street fight in Spokane.

Though the accused said the killing was in self defense he was charged with second degree murder and the case went to trial in 2015.

Immediately before the state rested its case, the trial court allowed the state to amend its charges to include first degree manslaughter.

The jury found the man guilty of manslaughter, but not the murder charge.

The Supreme Court was asked to vacate the conviction for first degree manslaughter arguing that allowing the amendment violated his constitutional right to be informed of the charges against him.

The Supreme Court agreed and reversed a decision by the Court of Appeals.

During the trial, the state waited until after calling its final witness to move to add the manslaughter charge. The defense objected on the grounds that Gehrke did not mount a defense to manslaughter, which would have been different than the defense for murder.

But the trial court granted the state?s motion to amend the charges and the jury then found the accused guilty of manslaughter.

The accused then appealed and the Appeals Court affirmed the conviction. The Supreme Court however ruled that the fundamental rights were violated when the charges against him were modified at the end of the trial.

?Criminal defendants are entitled to receive notice of the nature of the charges and an opportunity to present a defense,? ?it is a central right.?

?The prosecutor also mistakenly indicated that first degree manslaughter was a lesser offense to felony murder? the opinion was written by Justice Charles Wiggins.

February 15, 2019 7:33am

February 7, 2019

Huge Raises For Government Workers

The Washington Citizens? Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials handed out raises Monday to statewide elected officials, judges and lawmakers.

Anti-tax activist Tim Eyman, who has vowed a referendum that would put the raises before voters this November is not happy.

To qualify for a referendum, Eyman would need to gather 129,811 valid signatures within 90 days after the salary changes are filed with the Secretary of State?s Office, according to a spokesman for that office.

The salary commission poured ?gasoline on the fire of enthusiasm for our Give Them Nothing referendum,? Eyman wrote Monday in an email. ?We will work really hard to let voters decide politicians? massive salary bonuses in November.?

In addition to raising base salaries the commission approved cost of living raises for all those positions of 2 percent in 2019 and another 2 percent in 2020.

The raises came as part of the commission?s regular salary adjustments, which occur every other year. The commission, established in 1987, was created by a state constitutional amendment as a way to remove politics from the setting of salaries.

For state lawmakers, the commission approved raises of $3,000 for 2019 and another $3,000 for 2020.

That means in 2020, rank and file lawmakers will earn $56,881 a year, up from their current salary of $48,731. Legislative leaders will make several thousand dollars more.

Judges who include state Supreme Court justices and judges sitting on appeals, superior and district courts also got big raises of course The commission approved raises of 8.5 percent for 2019 and 2.5 percent for 2020.

Those raises were geared toward keeping judicial salaries close to the pay scales for federal judges as if that is a big concern. Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst?s will now make, in 2020, $226,589, up from the current $193,162.

A trio of statewide elected officials Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Treasurer Duane Davidson will get $1,500 raises in 2019 and again in 2020.

Inslee?s salary will be $187,353 by 2020, up from the current $177,107. Ferguson in 2020 will have a salary of $172,259, up from his current $162,599.

February 7, 2019 6:22am

January 30, 2019

Sheriff Bob Dislikes New Gun Law

Local officials have yet to speak out but not Sheriff Bob Songer of Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer who says he is and will not enforce the state?s new initiative that places stiff requirements on the sale and ownership of semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15s and calls it unconstitutional.

Songer also said the age limit isn?t fair to servicemen under 21 who come home after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, where they toted a rifle.

Now, I have made it clear over the years that I am not a firearm enthusiast but like the good sheriff, think it is a bad law and violates people?s rights and do nothing to stop crime or do anything to make our communities safer but what it will do is make criminals out of our honest citizens.

The Initiative, 1639, approved by voters statewide in November, raises the age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21, calls for enhanced background checks, and requires buyers to complete a firearm safety course. The initiative also holds gun owners accountable if someone else uses their firearm to do harm.

Klickitat County is one the State?s more Conservative Counties thus not all law-enforcement agencies in the state are taking a stance as hard as Songer?s.

Many are concerned however about the constitutionality of the measure and the additional background checks workload when the initiative soon takes affect

The Lewis County Sheriff?s Office and Republic Police Chief Loren Culp announced shortly after the November general election that they wouldn?t enforce the new law.

In November, the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation filed a joint lawsuit in U.S. District Court challenging the constitutionality of I-1639.

Those like me simple want to feel safe on their own homes and locking a gun up prevents a homeowner from responding quickly to a home invasion.

And the background checks also probe whether someone has had any mental health problems, a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

I have no issue really with the mental health issue, if someone is questionable then a little extra time may save a tragedy though the initiative only requires law enforcement agencies to determine whether a person ever had been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, certainly reasonable.

What I do have an issues with is the keeping a gun locked up which is intended to make communities safer and prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands..

The departments more against then support the initiative they will comply with the initiative but use discretion in enforcing it saying they all have discretion and because of active crime it will be looked at on a case by case basis.

January 30, 2019 7:44am

January 21, 2019

Fentanyl O Ds On The Rise

Fentanyl overdoses on the rise in Washington State and responsible for seven just in the last week.

The drug is injected using syringes of which leave traces.

Overdose deaths due to fentanyl have risen dramatically in Washington. In King County, officials have connected 57 deaths in 2018 to fentanyl so far, compared with 33 deaths the year before, according to Public Health.

Fentanyl, which can?t be seen, smelled or tasted, can potentially be in any illicit drug. The amount can vary even within the same batch, health officials said.

Health officials are advising people who use drugs to have naloxone on hand, which can be obtained at needle exchanges and other locations. To prevent overdose, Public Health is advising people who use drugs not to do so alone and to start with small amounts. Fentanyl is fast-acting.

Those who suspect someone has had an overdose should call 911 right away and administer naloxone, according to Public Health. State law protects people who overdose and those who call 911 from drug-possession charges.

Administer naloxone even if in doubt, as it?s not harmful if given to someone not experiencing an overdose, according to Public Health. Then, monitor the person for several hours.

Most overdose deaths are due to respiratory failure, according to Public Health. If someone who has overdosed stops breathing, they should be given mouth-to-mouth breathing every five seconds. If their pulse can?t be detected, CPR should be used, according to Public Health.

China is a huge source of the drug and a lot of it comes across the southern border with Mexico and one big reason the wall needs to be built.

January 21, 2019 7:33am 

January 14, 2019

Charter Schools Outperform Union Teachers

After studying three school years? worth of data, charter-school students? scores on state math and reading exams grew at a similar pace compared to their peers enrolled in traditional public schools.

That finding was true for almost all student racial and demographic groups, with English learners being the notable exception. Students learning English who were enrolled in charter schools performed considerably better. Compared to English learners in traditional public schools, the report found they gained the equivalent of 83 more days of instruction in both reading and math. For that, the report had no explanation:

Charter schools in Washington state are publicly funded, but privately run. Charter-school opponents in Washington and beyond claim the schools take money away from traditional public schools as both receive funding from the state based on their enrollment and aren?t directly accountable to voters because they are not controlled by elected school boards.

The researchers used a method called ?virtual control record,? in which they analyzed and compared a little over 1,000 charter-school students with how their virtual academic and demographic ?twin? in a traditional public school would have performed on state assessments.

Charter-school students specifically in Washington State had the highest one-year gains in learning. Another blow to the self professed socialists and loony liberals that think union run businesses in the answer to everything.

January 14, 2019 7:08am

January 7, 2019

The Great Anti Tax Anti Loony Liberal Tim Eyman

The great Tim Eyman announced Thursday that he has collected more than enough signatures to send his $30.00 car tab tax measure to the Legislature and hopefully to the voters in November but of course loony liberals are whining.

Those that support Sound Transit say the reduction would hurt their cause of taxing people and claim that the higher car tab costs are justified to fund its expansion of light rail and bus service throughout the Puget Sound region.

This site submits that the rest of us around the northwest are not and should not be responsible for loony liberal King County or any other county that want us all to ride buses and mopeds.

?Hopefully people recognize this for what it is,? said Kelsey Mesher, advocacy director for the pro-transit Transportation Choices Coalition. ?This would affect communities all across the state. The revenue that would be cut funds everything from bus service to park and ride to pretty much any transit, walk or bike project.?

Eyman has submitted more than enough signatures to the secretary of state for this measure so the loons should just shut up about it.

?I?ve done initiatives on a million different topics, but $30 tabs is really the defining issue that voters identify with us,?

This initiative is to the Legislature, which means the Legislature could approve the vehicle registration and renewal fee cuts as written in the initiative, but if it declined to do so, the initiative would go to voters in November 2019. The Legislature also could write an alternative and put that on the ballot along with Eyman?s initiative.

This year?s initiative would require Sound Transit to ?retire, defease or refinance? any bonds that are backed by car-tab tax revenue.

January 7, 2019 6:55am

January 2, 2019

The Departure Of Clallam Administrator Jim Jones Leaves Void

I certainly was no fan of Jones in the beginning but I must give him credit and perhaps only because he read my site but he did however in fact try to keep the county budget and spending level under control.

Since and because of his departure, the county commissioners have now requested that a Clallam County lawyer be present for any and all meetings of which will begin after the first of the year and at current time, will continue until further notice.

This was invited because of past issues with the three stooges not knowing the difference between their assholes and eyeballs couple with control spending of late.

Board Chairman Mark Oasis recently said that he thinks ?it?s a good idea to have a lawyer present ?to answer questions coming in real time? though claims that ?there was no one particular occurrence or situation that initiated the change.?

This site agrees, God knows it took Jones to keep an eye on these idiots. I never ?hated? Jones? like I said I just think he was too inherently liberal for my liking.

Even the current stooges admit that there was and are problems that could be avoided by having an adult in the room of which that seat now has to be filled by an attorney that knows contract law etc of which Bill Peach should already know however.

But this is not unusual, most other government meeting require having a lawyer present.

The good news is the extra body won?t cost the taxpayer anything extra and the board of commissioners are in fact starting a new search for a new administrator.

Let?s hope that he too, as Jones did late in his term, not waste money and is as conservative as they can get. With the clear defeat of the ultra liberal loon Mike Doherty, the republicans have control and should make good use of that fact.

January 2, 2019 7:05am