Hargen: those "rich" schools don't have to take SPED kids, or crappy kids or "behavior disorder" kids, or retarded children. Require them to take them and abide by Title I criteria and ADA standards and see how much it costs.
JAKEBOOM: "Private sector employees have had to deal with much higher levels of pay cuts." They have also had the much higher pay levels during boom times. It evens out, but you don't get it because you are myopic.
too bad the eastside doesn't get all the subsidies like DT, but it succeeds nonetheless. Kind of tells you something about how wasteful city government is.
"To avoid overloading the power grid, and also to comply with federal rules protecting salmon, BPA on Wednesday morning briefly told fossil fuel and wind generators to power down."
Washington state bank is shut; 44 failures in 2011
Well said, Herchel.
May 28, 2011 at 6:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Fitness companies to open Vancouver office
Columbian, please follow up on how many jobs are created.
May 25, 2011 at 9:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Popular Washougal educator gets reprieve
you can "like" all you want, but is he effective in his job?
Ineffective administrators are even harder to get rid of than ineffective teachers, and they don't even have a union.
May 25, 2011 at 9 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State budget deal relies on massive education cuts
Hargen: those "rich" schools don't have to take SPED kids, or crappy kids or "behavior disorder" kids, or retarded children. Require them to take them and abide by Title I criteria and ADA standards and see how much it costs.
JAKEBOOM: "Private sector employees have had to deal with much higher levels of pay cuts." They have also had the much higher pay levels during boom times. It evens out, but you don't get it because you are myopic.
May 24, 2011 at 9:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Commissioners approve increase in 911 excise tax
I have a landline. fifty-two percent of the monthly bill is taxes. We've called 911 four times in twenty years.
How about tax frequent callers or erroneous callers ata rate of 200%?
May 24, 2011 at 9:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Changes are coming to comments on Columbian.com
Facebook tracks you. Does the Columbian?
So long and thanks for all the fish.
May 24, 2011 at 9:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
PeaceHealth moving HQ to Columbia Tech Center
too bad the eastside doesn't get all the subsidies like DT, but it succeeds nonetheless. Kind of tells you something about how wasteful city government is.
May 23, 2011 at 7:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
We're still here. Apocalypse believers express confusion
the world will end when I die, at least for me.
May 21, 2011 at 9:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Clark Public Utilities on sidelines of wind power battle
"To avoid overloading the power grid, and also to comply with federal rules protecting salmon, BPA on Wednesday morning briefly told fossil fuel and wind generators to power down."
What does this mean, exactly?
May 18, 2011 at 7:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Crowd pulls few punches at Herrera Beutler town hall
just a little note on NPR: Federal government gives 400 times more money to Jerry Falwell's ultra-conservative Liberty University than it does to NPR.
Ha!
May 17, 2011 at 7:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )