Sitting on a Gold Mine?

What if public agencies were sitting on a gold mine, a mineral deposit worth potentially billions? OK, not gold, but a large quantity of a valuable element? The Department of [...]

Vote Like Your Life Depends On It

Almost everyone agrees that health care in USAmerica is broken and too expensive. Our costs are higher than other developed nations but our outcomes no better. In some cases they [...]

Jail Tax: Third Time’s a Charm?

The County Council has started their third attempt to pass the fourth tax since 1998 earmarked for repair or replacement of our jail - effort seven for four taxes. Sheriff Elfo’[...]

"Ah! But, judging from the chemfix slab DOE findings (http://www.skookum.us/fowcweb/GP/chemfix/pages/76.9.17.GP.htm), and assuming this “influent sludge” was generally characteristic, the concentration was [...]

" Oh, plenty keen, Larry.  I was just poking you. And I agree with your as usual well formed thinking on the subject. I keep wondering if we wouldn’[...]

"Ha ha, Larry.  Call me out!I agree there should be a more uniform framework for n’hood associations.  Zoning should be returned to the n’hood elements [...]

"Indeed, when our first Comp plan was adopted, neighborhood elements of the plan included the zoning and often specialized, site specific prerequisite conditions.  MNAC was designed to get started [...]

"The City with (Almost) No Limitshttps://urbanland.uli.org/industry-sectors/city-almost-no-limits/“Imagine a boomtown of 2.1 million inhabitants that sprawls jaggedly over 600 square miles (1,600 sq km), but without a multicolored [...]