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Levy Scissors

A collection of 3 issues

🖥 The County That Didn't Pause Data Centers - Klickitat BOCC 7/28 to 8/18

Yakima, Spokane and Skamania all hit pause on data centers this month. Klickitat took up a moratorium request and chose something else. Plus: the county's land use map still dates to 1979, a mental health program that can't open for want of one hire, and $380,000 gone from public health.

🪨 The 1872 Rule Hiding Under Skamania's Mining Fights

Skamania has two mining fights at once. But under the copper one sits an 1872 law that quietly decides who gets paid for the metal: nobody. Here's how a Grant-era giveaway still shapes what our county can ask for, what other places have won anyway, and what to ask before July 30.

🍽️ 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.