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    Only winners get to vote on campaign finance reform. The losers have gone back home. The winners are the ones who profited from the current system...
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    Clark County activist Michele Cotner dies

    With great sadness I have learned that Michele Cotner died yesterday after a brief hospitalization with a heart related illness.

    I met Michele back in 2003 shortly after moving to this area at a Howard Dean Meetup at the Salmon Creek Brewpub. We both were very disturbed with the direction of our country and the Iraq war.

    Michele was the one that took [...]



    Fifth Annual Legislative Review Forum

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    Event: Fifth Annual Legislative Review Forum When: Tuesday- June 10, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m.(Evening) Where: Water Resources Education Center 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver Admission: Free and open to the public Services: Refreshments provided RSVP by: Friday- June 6, 2008

    Clark County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to sponsor our Fifth Annual Legislative Review Forum. State Senators and Representatives from [...]



    Moeller will kick off campaign at The Academy

    State Rep. Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver, running for a fourth two-year term in the 49th Legislative District, will kick off his campaign from 5 to 7 p.m. today at The Academy, 400 E. Evergreen Blvd. Suggested donation is $25 per person. [...]



    Bill allowing public funding of local office campaigns passes the WA house today

    HB 1551 allowing local cities, towns, counties and districts to enact public financing of campaigns passed the Washington State Legislature today.

    Here is the role call:Yeas: 56 Nays: 38 Absent: 0 Excused: 4

    Voting Yea: Representatives Appleton, Barlow, Chase, Clibborn, Cody, Conway, Darneille, Dickerson, Dunshee, Eddy, Ericks, Flannigan, Fromhold, Goodman, Grant, Green, Haigh, Hasegawa, Hunt, Hunter, Jarrett, Kagi, Kelley, Kenney, Kirby, Lantz, Liias, Linville, [...]



    Praise for The Columbian impeachment piece, effort continuing at local, state and federal levels

    Local activist Celia Louderback has praise for our local paper in today’s reader opinion section for spreading George McGovern’s article about impeachment:

    Spread McGovern’s insight

    Every citizen who read George McGovern’s Jan. 13 opinion, “Time is ripe for impeachment,” owes The Columbian a huge debt of gratitude for publishing it.

    The newspaper dared to print the truth about overwhelming crimes at a time when [...]



    Annual Town Hall – Moeller, Pridemore, Fromhold

    49th District legislators, Democratic Reps. Bill Fromhold and Jim Moeller and Sen. Craig Pridemore, will have their annual pre-session town hall in the sixth-floor commissioner room at the Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin, from 10 a.m to noon On Jan. 12. The session is wide open to the public including residents of legislative districts that suffer a paucity of Democratic legislators. Info [...]



    Event cancelled – Clarkblog.org to Sponsor Vancouver City Council Debate

    www.clarkblog.org has launched a grassroots effort to sponsor a debate among all of the candidates in the upcoming Vancouver City Council races this August. Three incumbents have filed for reelection; Councilmen Tim Leavitt, Larry Smith and Dan Tonkovich. To date, Tonkovich is the only incumbent who has not agreed to the debate, while Leavitt and Smith have enthusiastically endorsed the idea and agreed to [...]

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