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Clark County lawmakers split along party lines on police use-of-force bill Published: April 18, 2021, 6:02am Share: Police at the scene of the fatal shooting of William Abbe on Fourth Plain Boulevard and Stapleton Road on April 28, 2020. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) A bill establishing a state office to investigate police use-of-force incidents passed the Legislature last week and is on track to be signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee before the session concludes. House Bill 1267 will create an Office of Independent Investigations to look into officer-involved cases involving deadly force...

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: Manufacturing jobs; COVID-19 The Columbian Share: Cheers: To manufacturing. United Precision Corporation, a California-based aerospace manufacturer that counts Boeing, SpaceX and the U.S. military among its clients, is expanding to Clark County. The company has purchased land from the Port of Camas-Washougal, where it will build two manufacturing buildings over the next five to 10 years, according to the Camas-Washougal Post-Record. Construction of restaurants and retail outlets typically comprise the bulk of local economic news, in part because suc...

Washington State House health bills that passed before the house of origin cutoff Sydney Kurle | Mar 8, 2021 Share this: The past two weeks have been busy ones in the Washington State Legislature. The cutoff for bills to move from their house of origin is on Tuesday, March 9th. Legislators spent the last two weeks in floor sessions from morning until night, and sometimes even on the weekends, working to move bills into the next house. There were 33 health-related bills that managed to make it from the House to the Senate in the past weeks. Here are the 13 we are watching.     The...

All Politics is Local About this blogWe go to meetings so you don't have to. Rep. Vicki Kraft, R-Vancouver, reintroduced a bill last week that would establish a $7,000-per-child grant program for families who homeschool or send their children to private school. The fund would be called the K-12 Education Scholarship Program. Her bill has since been referred to the House Education Committee. “We’ve seen how students have been affected this past year from a lack of education choices. Students should be allowed to be in a learning environment that works for them,” Kraft said in a...

On the opening day of Washington’s 2021 legislative session, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate devoted their time to establishing the rules that will dictate an unprecedented amount of remote work in the coming months.