August/September 2020 Get this month's issue and find out more about our plans for the next couple months and how you can get involved.
Candidate Q&A: 16th District State Senator Candidates who did not respond: Perry Dozier, Danielle Garbe Reser, William “Bill” Jenkin. None of them. Literally none of them responded.
Candidate Q&A: Benton-Franklin County Superior Court Judge Candidates who responded: Talesha "Tali" Sams, Dave Petersen, Shelley Ajax. Candidates who did not respond: Shawn P. Sant, anyone with the last name "Brown", including a Sharon and a Bronson.
Candidate Q&A: Benton County Commissioner position 3 Candidates who did not respond: Will McKay, James R. Beaver, Joe Lusignan. None of them. Literally none of them responded.
Candidate Q&A: Franklin County Commissioner position 2 Candidates who responded: Ana Ruiz Peralta. Candidates who did not respond: Rocky Mullen, Cliff MacHugh, Terry Ryan Cissne.
Candidate Q&A: Franklin County Commissioner position 1 Candidates who responded: Kim Lehrman. Candidates who did not respond: Lowell "Brad" Peck, Matt Beaton.
Candidate Q&A: Benton County Commissioner position 1 Candidates who responded: Jeff Smart and Justin Raffa. Candidates who did not respond: Jerome Delvin, Michael Alvarez, Donnie Landsman
Poetry and Prose: July 2020 “On this particular day, they were startled to find themselves cheek to beak, admiring the very same flower. They just smiled and laughed, and with a warm ado they hummed and buzzed away.”
Columbia river shoreline reconveyance targets 2020 bill, has begun including tribes in the process Nearly a year after the last public meeting on the topic, Monday's Pasco council workshop provided a status update on the initiative to transfer Columbia River shoreline ownership.
Kennewick council gets an ethics policy Kennewick’s City Council is getting some new guidelines and accountability to go along with it. The new policy, enacted in August, comes after an incident earlier this year where councilman John Trumbo was censured for “misuse of office” in using his city business
Public health policy should be based on science and data (needle exchanges included) In 1988 after working with heroin addicts for more than 17 years, in East Harlem, Greenwich Village and Hell's Kitchen, I was recruited by the New York City
Getting the story straight on needle exchanges On February 12, 2019, without an agenda item and in spite of the evidence presented by the public and Blue Mountain Heart to Heart the previous week, the Franklin County
Securing firearms in households reduces accidental shootings and suicides Last month, Saturday February 2nd, in Skyway, WA, a four-year-old boy shot his mother, who was 8 months pregnant, in the face while she laid on the bed watching TV
