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🍽️ Splitting the Dinner Check - a Property Tax Explainer

Your reassessment notice feels like a bill. But it's really your share of a fixed check that WA law lets grow just 1% a year. What does that mean? Here is how property taxes actually work, with real numbers, just in time for election season.

🗳️ Your Klickitat 2026 Primary Ballot Preview - 7/9 & 7/14 Candidate Forums

Bob Songer is stepping down after three terms, and three career lawmen want his badge. Where Bruce, Warren, and Matulovich stand, who is funding them (the sheriff himself among them), the wide-open commissioner race, and why the sheriff's contest is the only one that drew its own forum.

🚦 A Green Light for the Quiet Zone - Bingen June '26 Round-up

Bingen's council saw the new Hood River-White Salmon Bridge at 60% design, hired an engineer to push the rail Quiet Zone forward, stood up a free e-bike library at Daubenspeck Park, and learned which of Olympia's new housing rules it does (and doesn't) have to follow. Here's your June.

🔥 Smoke, Weeds and Fireworks: Goldendale's June '26 Round-up

Goldendale named a temporary Planning Commission to rescue its stalled ADU rule, locked in a $221,000 grant for the library elevator, and spent fire season arguing over dry weeds, a smoky downtown burnout event, and Fourth of July fireworks. Here's June, meeting by meeting.

🏛 An EV Mandate, a Denied Appeal, and the 30% Rule - White Salmon June '26

White Salmon's council made every new home EV-ready, adopted its six-year road plan, and retired the old cluster mailboxes. The CDC reworked heritage months and hit a $10,000 parade-closure wall, and the Planning Commission denied a Wyers Street appeal. Here's your June.

🩺➡️🔒 County Cuts Care as Jail Fills the Gap - Klickitat BOCC 6/9-6/23

Klickitat County moved a public-records job to the Prosecutor, weighed data centers at the old aluminum site, heard a sobering jail update, and absorbed a $400,000 public-health cut. Four meetings, June 9 to 23, in plain language.

🔌 The Northwest Is Nine Gigawatts Short - EFSEC June 2026

Washington's energy-siting council heard a sobering forecast: the Northwest could be 9 gigawatts short of firm power by 2030. Plus a new Commerce councilmember, a finalized tribal-consultation policy, a solar-farm brush fire, and two ownership transfers headed for a July vote.

🏗️ Tracking childcare land in Bingen & White Salmon - Klickitat BOCC 5/26 & 6/2

The East District Court faces a critical public defense attorney shortage, six county bridges are slated for summer closures, and the Board eyes property in Bingen and White Salmon for early education expansion.

🛑 Bridge Test Piles Halted by Insurance Hurdles - HRWSBA 5/27 - 6/8

The HRWSBA adopts a $66.9M budget, navigates thorny liability insurance hurdles for an upcoming test pile program, and debates how to handle federal park mitigation at Marina Park.

💧 Protecting the Watershed - Goldendale May '26 Round-up

Goldendale secures over 100 acres of watershed property from logging, police seize nearly a pound of fentanyl, and the council navigates new public record fees and park funding strategies.