Arne Mortensen News Today

The League of Women Voters of Cowlitz County is asking the public to help create questions for candidates ahead of the August primary.

If the council cant even agree when they need to start looking for candidates, how will they ever be able to select one as the permanent city manager?

Our editorial board weighs in on recent issues in Cowlitz County and abroad. Each week, we take notice of the noteworthy and poke the pompous.

Rick Dahl was the only commissioner who came to the city and county workshop, where the focus was on a local severe weather shelter, not HOPE Village.

The measure will be nonbinding, but commissioners said they will use the outcome to weigh the publics opinion on the tax that pays for programs like drug court.

Longview mayor says the vote on control of local document recording fees will be held at this weeks meeting.

Mortensen hasnt filed yet, and the seven-year commissioner has already backed Rader.

A smaller faction of local Republicans held a Saturday fundraiser featuring opponents of the main local partys endorsed candidates. For about nine years, the seven-board member Lower Columbia …

Is a push further right by the official county party creating less electable candidates? A local political action group thinks so.

Now, the countys millions of dollars in state-collected money to pay for housing projects is down to hundreds of thousands of dollars.