Wow. This one hurts. Port Angeles is going through a 20 year self inflicted suicide. I collect a lot of data and I struggle to find one positive metric where we are outperforming similar sized towns. We are continually lagging in growth in wages, jobs, housing, sales tax collections, and school enrollment and outcomes. The only things growing faster are layoffs, crime, drug use, and vacant and blighted properties. I increasingly find myself wondering if I should continue to spend so much time and money here. Are we a lost cause? Do I have to vote with my feet and move?
It’s the same story in Sequim. The major growth in Clallam County seems to be in the size and scope of government and NGO influence, as well as the power of the tribes to influence and control policy and their own empires — and, of course, our growing property tax bills. The fact of the matter is, you cannot help someone who refuses to take ownership of their addiction and help themselves.
What I see is a near exclusively Democrat political leadership that has created the lost cause you reference. Rather than voting with your feet, try voting anything other than the historically dominate political party.
The state is corrupt, so no chain of command to follow up regionally.
The DJT admin is up to its neck in legal and spiritual battles...they are challenging Ferguscum and his minions at the legal level but legalism has corrupted Law, so uncertain outcomes there.
There are a few places that are pro-Constitution and pro-2A but corruption is in every system to some degree...the places (in the U.S.) I've perused have climatological and biological challenges such as storms, floods, tick/mosquito-borne diseases, poisonous insects and dangerous animals...this planet is an iffy place at best...and criminality is rampant even where law-enforcement/justice is doing it's job.
Interesting times, indeed!
Overseas would be a one-way move for us and nothing has 'popped' up!
Seventy-two in the drunk tank would help. Withdrawls are painful. Help is at the MAT center. A simple “move along. You can’t sleep here” is needed. Cut off the suppliers, cut off the demand, cut off the enablers (county). Enforce the laws. Attack this problem from all angles. City leaders do your jobs so we don’t have to depend on our useless County leadership. Clean up our streets.
With addiction to opiates, even prior to widespread fentanyl, it takes at least 30 days to regain some clarity in thought processes. When a loved one was badly strung out on heroin I read quite a few research papers that found a year of confinement was optimal for the patient to have best odds of staying off the drugs because it took that long for brain to recover to the pre-addiction state. Family advocated with the federal prosecutor for court ordered treatment which we were told was highly unusual, but he took our request seriously and that extra time incarcerated saved a life and provided effective behavioral therapy. Prison therapy is not perfect and can come with it's own traumas, but I will forever credit it for saving the life of someone I love. Thank heaven for neuroplasticity. Even meth detox is more complicated now due to most street drugs being mixed with at least some fentanyl or even xylazine
Thanks Susie. Have never been an addict or had a close associate as one, I'm no expert. Seventy two hours is a start. Seventy two hours they are not out there stealing, buying, using, and accessing free stuff on the streets.
Your money and resources is their "jones", personally. Politicians send their children to the best liberal colleges money and influence can buy; remember "aunt Becky" (Lori Loughlin)?, so that they can slide their kid into their vacant seat when they "retire" on your money. It isn't rocket science, just a decent memory at election time, based on performance of the incumbent, or their impending successor.
It takes just one Ginny story and we have people giving harm reduction programs 100% weight and 0% to consequences. We've got a handful of people controlling the narrative and tax dollars to manage walking corpses, the rest of us have no say in this.
Don't kid yourself; unless your tongue is cut out, with your legs useless, you have a voice and a spine. Two things that seem to be in short supply, until after-the-fact, 'til very recently.
Very powerful, Jeff. Thank you for being a strong voice for what is wrong with our community. We've seen how badly cities decay once drugs are allowed to be freely "discreet." The users become prominent and seriously threatening to the public. We, as a nation, a state, and a county cannot allow any excuse from anyone regarding drug addiction, drug trafficking, and drug rehab. The gov't's answers and profits are resulting in crime and chaos. We, the majority, who fund these money laundering schemes are disgusted with our leaders. They don't respect us, and as long as the money and power from the drug trade keeps their coffers full and their egos inflated, they never will.
Thank you @Tozzer (and associates) for this critical review of the state of the local homelessness industrial complex!
It is ever clear to me that we will not see any change unless the supporting organizations are publicly lobbied against, and defunded! This requires that we do the same against the three despotic Boys ( Ozias, French, Johnson) that support the disingration of Clallam's social fabric
Great interview. Our streets need to be swept and the addicts, involuntarily detained, then offered the choice of voluntary rehabilitation or moving on. Our civil liberties are being encroached on by street encampments and vagrants. Supplying drug paraphernalia and free pizzas is like offering this alcoholic a beer and telling me to drive home. Our elected should watch this interview and implement this strategy through the non-profits they support.
Moving on to some kind of containment...It's unholy to just move them along when they are so disruptive...making them someone else's problem is not socially acceptable.😎
The reality is Clallam county is a dirty, filthy, unhealthy slaughterhouse! Romanticising the results of the liberal democratic 'leadership' only prolongs the suffering. Bring some Media into this place. Show the world how rampant drug use, paid for by taxpayers, and led by belligerent, liberal talking heads, has destroyed a county, community and lives.
MK, thank you for the links. I doubt that any news outlet in Washington state will show the poor leadership and high taxes in this county/state. They show the addicts and mental illness - the results. Throw more money at it. Build housing so they can continue down their drugged path.
Might I add Lie, Accuse. And hey, remember what the left did to that mayor of Sequim (that was when we first moved here - what an intro) they had the NY Times reporting on Q connections with him! Same story was repeated everywhere. Embarrassed the whole town and made us a laughing stock. Fight fire with fire. An eye for an eye...
satan is celebrating..pray...even if not religious...prayer is not religion...it's a dialogue with the Infinite Intelligence we all have access to. Ask for help with the confidence you will receive it...sit quietly and 'listen' for the small-still voice for guidance...Feel what it is like to have a peaceful and loving society...difficult I know...but the alternative is bleak!😎🙏🏼😇
Geez Louise, Call me ASAP as I am holding my breath in amazement. Am beginning to turn blue. please call with the good news. maybe you should just buy them out, Your subscribers definitely outnumber their subscribers!!
I was wondering why the Health Dept has not taken a more active role protecting the community’s well being. Now I know.
The lack of municipal jurisdiction enforcement has sent us backwards to a new 21st Century definition of Hunters-Gatherers. They are MAT nomads who live a life foraging the territory of Clallam County under Lord of the Flies behavior.
Hunter-gatherer
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food and life
When people are addicted to.drugs you can't reason with them.because the addiction controls their mind .You can't reason also to radicals because they too are addicted to a idea .That their way is the only way to see things and the end can justify the means ? They aren't open to see does this work in the real world and maybe if we don't see improvement let's try a different approach ? Radicals won't admit they are wrong so they are fanatics which is someone that is a fan of a ideology .Which is a thought system that says this is how the world should work and we have to keep following this system no matter what happens .
.Instead of using observation ,intuition,wisdom on how things in life really work .Washington State spent 500 million ilast year on jury payout for the mistakes that where made maybe the reason we now can be proud of having the highest gas prices in the country to pay for this ?
So far this year it's 87 million 42 million to a woman that was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child .Because the dept of corrections didn't put him in prison ,but let him out ? Her mother was a alcoholic
Can you imagine anybody in their right mind leaving a child in that situation only a system that is run by radicals could do such a thing ?
The tribal mentality is people who are stuck in a mindset of us vs them We see that so clearly in the Middle East where they have been fighting for 5000 yrs .Same thing in Africa constant fighting between the tribes.Here too some minority groups not willing to be part of the whole country ? .Living in past some perceived wrong that happened so long ago ? Their leaders to.stay in power keep the hate rhetoric up to indoctrinate the next gen never looking at the real actual history of those times ? Because today our system has been corrupted by lobby money where it's pay to play it's easy to find politicians to push their agenda on the public .
Thoughtful people should really consider too where we live ? Right next to a huge forrest hundreds of thousands of acres of timber .According to LA fire dept a third of all fires are started by homeless encampments .What's to stop the same thing happening in Ca. because of their failed policies where entire communities are burned out from happening here ?
I could not make up a more counter productive policy toward drug abuse. Government is accommodating, encouraging, rewarding and promoting drug abuse. It is functioning as a marketing arm of illicit drug trafficking. Nurturing the very thing you do not want is completely without logic. Regardless of any amount of effort made to help the drug addicted, they too ultimately die. Government is only serving to possibly change their chosen time table. It is not the business of Government to take the results of people's choice away from them.
not just a marketing arm, also a supply house for dealers. when dealers and customers can get all the tools needed from the health dept, more $ is left for narcotics. The government is actually increasing the demand thereby increasing prowling, shoplifting, burglary, etc. Don't even get me started on how keeping people addicted is keeping vulnerable humans captive in the sex trades
"Port Angeles Police Officers now have support from a Social Worker and a team of case managers. The REdisCOVERY team conducts community outreach, connects individuals to resources and services, responds to mental health crises and collaborates with various Clallam County agencies." Where is this? Where is the proof!? Like to hear from those police officers how it's working?
And another one: "The city adopted the Complete Streets Ordinance in 2018, which improves the city’s design method to make streets safer and more accessible for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders and drivers. "
It's not working and they blame the citizens, lack of funding, the addicts, the far right, the Trumpies, the environment - everything and every person but themselves. Oh it must be soo dis-heartening, so cruel for them to have to deal with it all. Dexter is another Peninsula College graduate.
Wow. This one hurts. Port Angeles is going through a 20 year self inflicted suicide. I collect a lot of data and I struggle to find one positive metric where we are outperforming similar sized towns. We are continually lagging in growth in wages, jobs, housing, sales tax collections, and school enrollment and outcomes. The only things growing faster are layoffs, crime, drug use, and vacant and blighted properties. I increasingly find myself wondering if I should continue to spend so much time and money here. Are we a lost cause? Do I have to vote with my feet and move?
It’s the same story in Sequim. The major growth in Clallam County seems to be in the size and scope of government and NGO influence, as well as the power of the tribes to influence and control policy and their own empires — and, of course, our growing property tax bills. The fact of the matter is, you cannot help someone who refuses to take ownership of their addiction and help themselves.
What I see is a near exclusively Democrat political leadership that has created the lost cause you reference. Rather than voting with your feet, try voting anything other than the historically dominate political party.
The question on every rational mind, Steven!
The state is corrupt, so no chain of command to follow up regionally.
The DJT admin is up to its neck in legal and spiritual battles...they are challenging Ferguscum and his minions at the legal level but legalism has corrupted Law, so uncertain outcomes there.
There are a few places that are pro-Constitution and pro-2A but corruption is in every system to some degree...the places (in the U.S.) I've perused have climatological and biological challenges such as storms, floods, tick/mosquito-borne diseases, poisonous insects and dangerous animals...this planet is an iffy place at best...and criminality is rampant even where law-enforcement/justice is doing it's job.
Interesting times, indeed!
Overseas would be a one-way move for us and nothing has 'popped' up!
Best wishes!😎
Seventy-two in the drunk tank would help. Withdrawls are painful. Help is at the MAT center. A simple “move along. You can’t sleep here” is needed. Cut off the suppliers, cut off the demand, cut off the enablers (county). Enforce the laws. Attack this problem from all angles. City leaders do your jobs so we don’t have to depend on our useless County leadership. Clean up our streets.
With addiction to opiates, even prior to widespread fentanyl, it takes at least 30 days to regain some clarity in thought processes. When a loved one was badly strung out on heroin I read quite a few research papers that found a year of confinement was optimal for the patient to have best odds of staying off the drugs because it took that long for brain to recover to the pre-addiction state. Family advocated with the federal prosecutor for court ordered treatment which we were told was highly unusual, but he took our request seriously and that extra time incarcerated saved a life and provided effective behavioral therapy. Prison therapy is not perfect and can come with it's own traumas, but I will forever credit it for saving the life of someone I love. Thank heaven for neuroplasticity. Even meth detox is more complicated now due to most street drugs being mixed with at least some fentanyl or even xylazine
Thanks Susie. Have never been an addict or had a close associate as one, I'm no expert. Seventy two hours is a start. Seventy two hours they are not out there stealing, buying, using, and accessing free stuff on the streets.
It's the gov't bureaucracies that need their fix.
Your money and resources is their "jones", personally. Politicians send their children to the best liberal colleges money and influence can buy; remember "aunt Becky" (Lori Loughlin)?, so that they can slide their kid into their vacant seat when they "retire" on your money. It isn't rocket science, just a decent memory at election time, based on performance of the incumbent, or their impending successor.
City/County...same-same...infiltrated by socialist/communists.😵💫
It takes just one Ginny story and we have people giving harm reduction programs 100% weight and 0% to consequences. We've got a handful of people controlling the narrative and tax dollars to manage walking corpses, the rest of us have no say in this.
she is a strong advocate against harm reduction policies.
Don't kid yourself; unless your tongue is cut out, with your legs useless, you have a voice and a spine. Two things that seem to be in short supply, until after-the-fact, 'til very recently.
And we thought the zombie movies were just fiction!😱
Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Very powerful, Jeff. Thank you for being a strong voice for what is wrong with our community. We've seen how badly cities decay once drugs are allowed to be freely "discreet." The users become prominent and seriously threatening to the public. We, as a nation, a state, and a county cannot allow any excuse from anyone regarding drug addiction, drug trafficking, and drug rehab. The gov't's answers and profits are resulting in crime and chaos. We, the majority, who fund these money laundering schemes are disgusted with our leaders. They don't respect us, and as long as the money and power from the drug trade keeps their coffers full and their egos inflated, they never will.
As the conservation leaders said to a knowing bocc, the money is out there we just have to go and get it.
Thank you @Tozzer (and associates) for this critical review of the state of the local homelessness industrial complex!
It is ever clear to me that we will not see any change unless the supporting organizations are publicly lobbied against, and defunded! This requires that we do the same against the three despotic Boys ( Ozias, French, Johnson) that support the disingration of Clallam's social fabric
Great interview. Our streets need to be swept and the addicts, involuntarily detained, then offered the choice of voluntary rehabilitation or moving on. Our civil liberties are being encroached on by street encampments and vagrants. Supplying drug paraphernalia and free pizzas is like offering this alcoholic a beer and telling me to drive home. Our elected should watch this interview and implement this strategy through the non-profits they support.
Moving on to some kind of containment...It's unholy to just move them along when they are so disruptive...making them someone else's problem is not socially acceptable.😎
Get clean, stay clean, be productive. No substitute drugs.
Great goal; but it takes personal convictions to work. Each individual must take responsiblity, obviously. But, stop the free stuff!
Agree. Moving on to other communities means shipping them to Clallam County didn't we just see that in this column a few days ago?
The reality is Clallam county is a dirty, filthy, unhealthy slaughterhouse! Romanticising the results of the liberal democratic 'leadership' only prolongs the suffering. Bring some Media into this place. Show the world how rampant drug use, paid for by taxpayers, and led by belligerent, liberal talking heads, has destroyed a county, community and lives.
Most media can't even give enough attention to the mess that is Seattle/King Co.
Future 42 posts so many stories that seemingly only KOMO news will air about the problems our region is facing.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1SULpzqqnD/
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ACnq6an3m/
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14JgcsJGkrT/
MK, thank you for the links. I doubt that any news outlet in Washington state will show the poor leadership and high taxes in this county/state. They show the addicts and mental illness - the results. Throw more money at it. Build housing so they can continue down their drugged path.
That Renton video is unbelievable! We are next!
It really is a scary video, and all because of government inaction so likely won't happen around here 🤔
Be a “citizen journalist”.
record.
snap shots and sound bits right?
😎
Expose! Speak out! Demand! Persist!😎
Might I add Lie, Accuse. And hey, remember what the left did to that mayor of Sequim (that was when we first moved here - what an intro) they had the NY Times reporting on Q connections with him! Same story was repeated everywhere. Embarrassed the whole town and made us a laughing stock. Fight fire with fire. An eye for an eye...
That fiasco was REALLY about the MAT clinic.....
satan is celebrating..pray...even if not religious...prayer is not religion...it's a dialogue with the Infinite Intelligence we all have access to. Ask for help with the confidence you will receive it...sit quietly and 'listen' for the small-still voice for guidance...Feel what it is like to have a peaceful and loving society...difficult I know...but the alternative is bleak!😎🙏🏼😇
Maybe today's article with Jeff's permission will be printed in the SG or PDN or Leader?
They have permission! They always have permission :)
Geez Louise, Call me ASAP as I am holding my breath in amazement. Am beginning to turn blue. please call with the good news. maybe you should just buy them out, Your subscribers definitely outnumber their subscribers!!
I was wondering why the Health Dept has not taken a more active role protecting the community’s well being. Now I know.
The lack of municipal jurisdiction enforcement has sent us backwards to a new 21st Century definition of Hunters-Gatherers. They are MAT nomads who live a life foraging the territory of Clallam County under Lord of the Flies behavior.
Hunter-gatherer
Peoples who forage or hunt for most or all of their food and life
Free fentanyl...but you have to live in a 'compound' away from decent society!🧟
When people are addicted to.drugs you can't reason with them.because the addiction controls their mind .You can't reason also to radicals because they too are addicted to a idea .That their way is the only way to see things and the end can justify the means ? They aren't open to see does this work in the real world and maybe if we don't see improvement let's try a different approach ? Radicals won't admit they are wrong so they are fanatics which is someone that is a fan of a ideology .Which is a thought system that says this is how the world should work and we have to keep following this system no matter what happens .
.Instead of using observation ,intuition,wisdom on how things in life really work .Washington State spent 500 million ilast year on jury payout for the mistakes that where made maybe the reason we now can be proud of having the highest gas prices in the country to pay for this ?
So far this year it's 87 million 42 million to a woman that was repeatedly raped by her stepfather as a child .Because the dept of corrections didn't put him in prison ,but let him out ? Her mother was a alcoholic
Can you imagine anybody in their right mind leaving a child in that situation only a system that is run by radicals could do such a thing ?
Satan...it's real!😱
This is my land. It may have been their land but purchases and treaties make it my land.
The tax dollars taken from you and spent by the agenda driven crowd disagree unfortunately.
I think pharmaceuticals may outlive cockroaches. Even the elected representatives.
Tribe USA
Which you rent from the gov't!😊
The tribal mentality is people who are stuck in a mindset of us vs them We see that so clearly in the Middle East where they have been fighting for 5000 yrs .Same thing in Africa constant fighting between the tribes.Here too some minority groups not willing to be part of the whole country ? .Living in past some perceived wrong that happened so long ago ? Their leaders to.stay in power keep the hate rhetoric up to indoctrinate the next gen never looking at the real actual history of those times ? Because today our system has been corrupted by lobby money where it's pay to play it's easy to find politicians to push their agenda on the public .
Tribe kicks them off the Res
Thoughtful people should really consider too where we live ? Right next to a huge forrest hundreds of thousands of acres of timber .According to LA fire dept a third of all fires are started by homeless encampments .What's to stop the same thing happening in Ca. because of their failed policies where entire communities are burned out from happening here ?
there have been multiple encampment fires under the 8th st bridges from encampments in the Tumwater and Valley creek areas
or government-assisted suicide --- Sadly assisted suicide just to make money off of them.
At OUR Expense.
Yep and it is so disturbing they are willing to treat folks like this.
I could not make up a more counter productive policy toward drug abuse. Government is accommodating, encouraging, rewarding and promoting drug abuse. It is functioning as a marketing arm of illicit drug trafficking. Nurturing the very thing you do not want is completely without logic. Regardless of any amount of effort made to help the drug addicted, they too ultimately die. Government is only serving to possibly change their chosen time table. It is not the business of Government to take the results of people's choice away from them.
not just a marketing arm, also a supply house for dealers. when dealers and customers can get all the tools needed from the health dept, more $ is left for narcotics. The government is actually increasing the demand thereby increasing prowling, shoplifting, burglary, etc. Don't even get me started on how keeping people addicted is keeping vulnerable humans captive in the sex trades
Regarding Nov. Election Kate Dexter has been in office since 2018 and La Trisha Suggs has been in since 2019. How's that working?
https://electkatedexter.com/accomplishments/
"Port Angeles Police Officers now have support from a Social Worker and a team of case managers. The REdisCOVERY team conducts community outreach, connects individuals to resources and services, responds to mental health crises and collaborates with various Clallam County agencies." Where is this? Where is the proof!? Like to hear from those police officers how it's working?
"listening and responding" bahahahha hogwash
And another one: "The city adopted the Complete Streets Ordinance in 2018, which improves the city’s design method to make streets safer and more accessible for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders and drivers. "
the actual outcomes and money spent to not achieve them would be laughable if it wasn't so damn sad
always anecdotes from those folks, never data
It's not working and they blame the citizens, lack of funding, the addicts, the far right, the Trumpies, the environment - everything and every person but themselves. Oh it must be soo dis-heartening, so cruel for them to have to deal with it all. Dexter is another Peninsula College graduate.
It was disturbing to read about her grand plans to bring businesses to PA during her debate with Mimi.
Dudette you have had since 2018 but we have more empty now than we did then! You are clearly doing a super poor job.
It sure appears that way. That is the reality!
Maybe Dexter and Suggs are reading the inspirational messages...
Sad , a travesty , not to mention a waste of tax payers money.
No more enabling !