What do you want to know about Clark County, its history, people or economy? Is there a place, a person or an issue that mystifies or intrigues you? Something that you've always wondered about? Clark Asks is your chance to get the answers.
Share your question with us, then join in as readers vote on which stories they want The Columbian to investigate.
Clark Asks is a project guided by readers and their interests, so the next step is up to you.
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We will be opening our next voting round soon.
We'll be in touch if we look into your question.
Thanks for submitting your Clark Asks question. If we're able to investigate it further, we'll get in touch with you. Feel free to encourage your friends to ask questions, too!
We collect questions through the "Ask a Question" form above on this page.
The newsroom team identifies questions that have potential to be answered by staff in stories, the podcast or blogs.
We think the most successful questions have at least one of these qualities:
Well, first off, congrats! We will notify question submitters when their question is selected so they can ask friends, family and social networks for support during voting.
If your question wins a voting round - double congrats! Columbian staff will discuss options for how you might participate in the investigation, depending on your interest and schedule, as well as the schedule of reporters.
There is hope for your question! Editors and reporters could still decide to investigate questions that never make it into a voting round -- or they may find that a question has already been answered through a previous story.
We edit some questions for clarity and brevity. We want questions to be specific enough to answer in the course of a story but broad enough to gain general interest among readers.