All politics is local

By Andrea Damewood, Marissa Harshman, Stephanie Rice and Ray Legendre (Columbian Staff Members)

Bringing you the most interesting and humorous tidbits from local government in Clark County.

Everyone welcome to serve on commissions

To an untrained ear, a sentence spoken at a Clark County commissioner work session would sound like this: "What's deeb think?" That would be DEAB, ...

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Blazer Banter

By Matt Calkins (Columbian Staff)

Batum's routine changes, and now shot-making is routine

Practice, most certainly, does not make perfect. But it does make franchise-records and NBA season highs. Just ask Blazers forward Nicolas Batum, who knocked down ...

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Greg Jayne

By Greg Jayne (Columbian Staff)

LaMarcus Aldridge or Blake Griffin?

Really good analysis from Bill Simmons, writing about LaMarcus Aldridge. Simmons was explaining who he would pick for the All-Star Game, and he compared Aldridge ...

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High School Sports

By Paul Valencia and columbian_sports (Columbian Staff Members)

2012 Mat Classic area first-round pairings

Here's the list of the area wrestlers who qualified for state and their first-round matchups: Class 4A (24 area competitors) 106 — Daniel Rice, so, ...

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Life

By Ashley Swanson (Columbian Staff)

Try This: The Week Ahead

Film Festival with purpose The fourth-annual Northwest Conference Against Trafficking and Film Festival will feature four film screenings that bring attention to human trafficking, one ...

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Live Well Blog

By Libby Clark and Marissa Harshman (Columbian Staff Members)

The Live Well blog is part of The Columbian’s new portal for health news and information in Clark County and Southwest Washington. Reporter Marissa Harshman ...

Hunger blogs

“I came into 2012 fat but I’m going to leave it skinny.” “Your stomach isn’t grumbling, it’s applauding.” “I like images that show skinny, happy ...

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Outdoors blog

By Allen Thomas (Columbian Staff)

News, notes, field reports and other information from Southwest Washington and the Northwest

Trout fishing flop 10/18

I did my annual fall trout-fishing trip at Swift Reservoir last week. Normally the bite is so good that we have a rule requiring changing ...

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Political Beat

By Stevie Mathieu (Columbian Staff)

George Takei helps Olympia’s gay marriage debate go viral

If Star Trek star George Takei mentions you on his Facebook page, you’re bound to get some attention. Take the speech on marriage equality given ...

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Strictly Business

By Aaron Corvin, Gordon Oliver, Courtney Sherwood and Cami Joner (Columbian Staff Members)

Behind the news from Clark County’s leading reporting team.

Start of waterfront development at least two years out

It could take at least two years, maybe longer before construction of a fancy waterfront development starts on the former Boise Cascade site in downtown ...

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Your Neck of the Woods

By Ruth Zschomler (Columbian Staff)

The good, the bad and the…notes about your neighborhood. What’s going on in your neck of the woods? Join the conversation.

Clark County barns on the Washington Heritage Barn Register

These barns can also be found on an interactive map at http://www.columbian.com/heritage-barns-map/. For more information on the Washington Heritage Barn Register visit http://www.dahp.wa.gov/heritage-barn-register. Birrer Farm ...

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