Homelessness is created by clallam county government, they don't want to help the workers here, they continue to support addicts through harm reduction..what a joke!
LIVING BEYOND MY MEANS, BEYOND YOUR MEANS, AND BEYOND RATIONAL COMPREHENSION The curb appeal of Permanent Supportive Housing
$842,105 for an Apartment in Sequim
When Mike French says he is bringing affordable housing to Sequim, this is what he means: bulldoze 17 apartment units, build 36, spend $16 million—mostly taxpayer money—and call it progress. Net gain: 19 units. Average cost: $842,105 per apartment. Permanent supportive housing for the homeless...typically 3–5 bedrooms, 2,100–3,200 square feet, often single-level living, 3–4 baths, half an acre to an acre, frequently with mountain or water views.
Have we all lost our minds? If you work, or your spouse works, and suddenly become disabled either mentally or physically, you would never get these kinds of luxury benefits. Perhaps you could apply for a wheelchair ramp to your front door, but to get the ‘full monty’ and live better than where you presently live, you’d have to become a monetarily unproductive member of society.
Come on Mike French, build within our means, supply help within our means, not what is beyond rational, basic and affordable support care.
(33) "Permanent supportive housing" is subsidized, leased housing with NO LIMIT ON LENGTH OF STAY that PRIORITIZES people who need comprehensive support services to retain tenancy and utilizes admissions practices designed to use lower barriers to entry than would be typical for other subsidized or unsubsidized rental housing, especially related to rental history, criminal history, and personal behaviors. Permanent supportive housing is paired with on-site or off-site voluntary services designed to support a person living with a complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health condition who was experiencing homelessness or was at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into housing to retain their housing and be a successful tenant in a housing arrangement, improve the resident's health status, and connect the resident of the housing with community-based health care, treatment, or employment services. Permanent supportive housing is subject to all of the rights and responsibilities defined in chapter 59.18 RCW.
What i’d like to know, don’t you think many of the senior citizens who can’t afford their homes now love to live in a $ 842,000 apartment.
All they care about is the homeless don’t get me wrong there is a need for OUR LOCAL HOMELESS but what about all the seniors who are one step out the door to homelessness?
4PA has it right, build tiny homes, this also helps them move to a better step forward at a fraction of the cost. There’s a company in Seattle making homeless shelters cabins that can be put up in a flash, withstand our weather etc, that would save millions
THE HOSPITAL GETS ANOTHER WARNING: IT WAS PREDICTABLE
Nov 2, 2025 “The following article was developed primarily from the substantial research and writings of Steven Pelayo, whose detailed analyses and community discussions have helped illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Olympic Medical Center. His work—shared across public forums, community groups, and with the Port Angeles City Council—provides the foundation for nearly every insight contained here”
Stop it! You mean tribes are raping and pillaging a threatened fishery?? Aren’t they supposed to be the ultimate stewards of the land and all its natural resources? Must be an AI-generated spoof, right?????
I bought fifteen salmon from a white commercial fisherman a couple of years ago. He lives in Sequim and uses gill nets like everyone else (commercial).
I don't know where you find the time to be SO expertly vigilant, however many here in our community are grateful for your excellent work! I am sure that the small number of your loud clueless detractors will remain as blind as rabid bats in a blender, where they find some sick kind of comfort willfully ignoring the devastation being wrought upon our community by their "feel good" criminals in our local governmental systems here. Your greater work is in reaching out to those who care not for "political badges and sick bragging rights", but who love and respect our beautiful community and actually care about those within it~! It takes a "special kind of evil fiend" to put their politics and criminally perverse anti-American agenda ahead of doing the right things for folks. There is very obviously a well-coordinated assault upon our community that has, and continues to be, cloaked by a thin disguise of "politics as usual" that these cowardly underhanded socialists are orchestrating to usher in their communistic dictatorial Hell on earth here. You and many here can see, smell, and feel it, as these Treasonous criminals push our beloved community more & more towards their insane notion of a "nirvana" that will NEVER materialize. Those of us who have studied REAL history well know that there has always been a small number of Individuals who, for a wide variety of serious mental issues, believe that they are Intellectually superior to everyone else AND that they therefore know better how to rule over all others~! They ALWAYS believe that they can do it better than the last evil criminals of humanity who dramatically failed... They are THE wannabe "Kings" who ALWAYS work to trick the impressionable weak-minded folks into believing that they are against Kings and dictators, when they are themselves the very dictator wannabes. By hook AND by crook, by any devious means necessary, they constantly conspire to work to undermine the good well working aspects and the good folks of society, blaming everything but themselves for THEIR dirty dealings and path of evil destruction~! Yes, the absolute proof of this is currently in all of our faces right here in Clallam County, however for those who are also paying attention to the bigger picture, this same process of evil destruction by those with criminal Intent is literally EVERYWHERE in America and the world today~! The evil ones are screaming because they are being exposed for what they REALLY are, which exposes them even more~! I can see the good folks everywhere who are fighting their own local battles for the greater good, which has been a long time coming and none too soon~! The "climate change cult" is just another tentacle of the evil old octopus that seeks to destroy and devour its prey, just like the manufactured California "desert tortoise" scam, the California "river smelt" scam, the Pacific Northwest "spotted owl" scam, and the many other completely insane violations of REAL science that have weaponized nature against our Individual freedom and rights~! Always remember the way that these criminals of humanity weaponized the traditional "cold and flu season" to trick good folks into becoming panicked enough to accept ALL of those completely unscientific "mandates" and to also lure them into taking the highly dangerous and deadly so-called COVID "vaccines"~! That mass murder atrocity actually briefly pushed back the curtain that the evil Wizard of Oz was hiding behind, so Americans and folks all over the world MUST never forget that horrific lesson that came at such an epic cost to all of us~! I extend a very special thanks to Patrick Murphy for his Patriotic strength to take a stand against the local cabal of Treasonous fiends who well know the crimes and injustices that they have been, are, and plot to continue committing~! Who else but an insider like Patrick Murphy would know better, about the criminal and unconstitutional behavior of the very Treasonous ones in our community and governmental systems here~? My wife and I met Patrick Murphy (and his supportive mother) at the Clallam County Fair last August and after talking with him we were favorably impressed enough to now have one of his signs supporting him in this November's midterm election along with two Jake Seegers signs in front of our property here~! Many Americans know that the election system throughout the US has been terribly compromised for quite a while, however I can see that most still don't realize how deeply our elections have been rigged and in how many ways. Long ago now President Trump issued an Executive Order for ALL states to clean up their voter rolls and election systems. Not one state has done so~! This automatically gives President Trump and/or The US Military, the full Constitutionally lawful authority, duty, and obligation, to halt this November's midterm election, or its fraudulent results, as a VERY serious matter of national security, until clean and honest elections can resume. I and some others believe that this is in fact part of "The Plan" of President Trump and The White Hats that has been unfolding for many years now. ALL Americans need to understand that ALL of our freedom and rights hinge upon our absolutely critical right to vote in our representative Republic~! This right of the LEGAL Americans to vote has been terribly compromised for many decades now, more so in some jurisdictions that in others, so I strongly encourage everyone to remain calm, do NOT jump to false conclusions (especially the usual false conclusions and lies pushed by the usual suspects of the evil political cabal), stay as healthy as possible, enjoy every day as much as possible, and to be well stocked up with food, water, medicines, and any other things that will be necessary to comfortably make it through any supply line issues that could arise~! Don't forget the chocolate treats! HA~! A one-month supply would be very good and don't forget the needs of your animal family... We here always try to have a little more for others in the community just in case, but that is what proper country folks always do because we know that there is more safety in having a little buffer of necessary items. I do NOT have a crystal ball, and my "inside information is limited, however the potential of supply line disruptions is undeniable in the foreseeable future, so it would only be prudent to take some minimal precautions. Emergency provisions MAY come in handy, but in our decades of experience it is first best to buy and store only what you usually normally intend to actually use!
The more I learn the more disgusted I become! Sisk obviously is in a different income bracket than anybody most likely in Clallam County. Perhaps if she was knocked down a few notches and lived within the means of the rest of the population in Clallam County things would be decidedly different? Yet, this is the person in charge of deciding how our tax dollars should be spent. I thought the last group home at $350K per unit was ridiculous and now the green light on another build per unit of over $800K per unit! The city & counties are way over taxing home owners if there is this amount of money available to be spent on housing for homeless. I’m having a real hard time wrapping my brain around it all & so should every tax payer in Clallam County. People worried about “No KING’s” need their heads examined when they are being over taxed for this kind of help & support for the down & out people in this county! The cheaper solution would be to transport them out of here. Let Seattle deal with it rather than continue to roll out the welcome mat to homelessness here providing a place for the Seattle homeless to land. Tax payers here have it tough enough with lack of adequate health care, aging processes, cost of living short of actual increases, etc., etc., etc. The county is strained, it is struggling, last year it was on life support & had to cut back 7% and people lost their jobs! Why would we allow this type of strain to occur? What are the other alternatives?
One thing is for sure, this county needs new leadership. What has happened the last 10 years has been worse not better.
There is a particular brand of local political punditry that operates like a rogue strip-mall tax attorney: full of loud, dramatic hand-waving, utterly terrified of the fine print, and deeply reliant on the assumption that nobody reading will ever bother to check a single underlying law or fact.
When an opinion writer throws a fit because a local official dares to use the word "complex," what they are really mourning is the loss of a simple, outrageous fairy tale. Explaining how municipal governance actually works is a threat to the outrage machine. Pointing out the boring mechanics of state-level tax credit covenants, jurisdictional boundaries between cities and counties, or regional utility impact fees spoils a perfectly good rant. Defining policy bottlenecks is providing necessary administrative context. Throwing up hands and treating a single anonymous Facebook comment as an epic thesis on systemic political cowardice is just lazy performance art. Equating an official, (French), who takes forty-five minutes to explain inter-governmental funding streams with a candidate, (Jake), who simply shrugs and points wildly at a nearby park is a grand exercise in false equivalency.
Then comes the great short-term rental debate, where the local narrative treats vacation rentals as a sacred constitutional right while portraying any attempt at municipal zoning as a communist plot. Reclaiming a handful of vacation rentals for the long-term housing market is obviously not a silver bullet for extreme poverty, because a converted coastal rental is going to re-enter the market as a high-end single-family property, not a subsidized apartment. Yet pretending that a dense concentration of mini-hotels inside residential neighborhoods has zero effect on rental vacancy rates requires a total suspension of basic arithmetic. Regulating vacation rentals is a standard, run-of-the-mill planning tool to keep a town’s working class from being priced into pitching tents in the woods, not a moral crusade against second-home owners. The grandest irony of the whole holy war, of course, is that the very folks preaching this sermon of unfettered market purity always seem to have skin in the game, conveniently forgetting to mention the cute little vacation cottage or short-term property deed sitting comfortably in their own portfolio while they rail against regulation.
Which brings us to the beloved $842,105 apartment headline, a number specifically engineered to make local taxpayers choke on their morning coffee. To arrive at that terrifying figure, one must engage in a glorious mathematical sleight of hand: take the entire multi-million dollar capital cost of a multi-family construction project--which includes land acquisition, utility main extensions, commercial environmental reviews, ADA accessibility, and prevailing wage mandates--and divide it exclusively by the net new units created. In doing so, the math completely erases the seventeen aging, end-of-life structures being replaced with modern, permanent housing stock, assigning their replacement a value of absolute zero. Comparing the per-unit construction cost of a multi-story supportive housing facility to the purchase price of an existing, thirty-year-old single-family house on the open market is like comparing the cost of building a public hospital to buying a used station wagon. Buying an existing house adds zero new beds to a starved housing pool; commercial construction creates permanent infrastructure. Toss in the reality that multi-family impact fees in Sequim are higher by municipal design, reflecting local development standards rather than wild government waste, and the entire outrage falls apart under the weight of basic building codes.
The paranoia extends right down to the mailboxes. When a resident complains about a late ballot, the local commentary machine immediately sniffs out a dark, deep-state election plot inside the county auditor’s office. They conveniently ignore the fact that the United States Postal Service rerouted rural mail collection to regional processing plants miles away, meaning a ballot dropped in a blue box on election afternoon might not get a physical postmark until it hits a sorting hub the next morning. Framing a federal mail-routing headache as proof of local election fraud requires ignoring strict, bipartisan drop-box audit trails and chain-of-custody logs that have been enshrined in state law for years.
To top off the circus, the Watchdog and Patrick Murphy drag out third-party internet scrapers like Crimebycity.com to declare the area a lawless wasteland ranking in the bottom percentiles for safety. These automated lead-generator sites exist for one single purpose: to trick anxious home-buyers into clicking on real estate ads. They run raw, delayed FBI data dumps through secret, proprietary algorithms that take a tiny numerical crime shift in a small population of twenty thousand people and mathematically blow it out of proportion to make it look like a war zone. Citing a real estate ad-farm as an authoritative police audit is the political equivalent of citing a horoscope to prove the weather forecast.
It is an exquisite addition to the local feedback loop: an aggregator site scrapes outdated FBI data, The Olympic Herald writes an alarming headline, Clallamity Jen spins it into a Substack treatise on municipal doom, Murphy cites the blog post as independent proof of a crime wave, and Jeff packages the whole incestuous routine into a newsletter headline. Nobody in this human-centipede of political commentary ever pauses to ask a single police chief for an actual local incident log. They just keep passing the same scraped, recycled numbers around in a circle, mistaking the sound of their own echo chamber for a public mandate.
When you strip away the secondary Substack echo loops, the scraped internet statistics, and the manufactured cost breakdowns, you are left with a very familiar play: convert the dry, highly regulated, and often frustrating friction of local government into an easy, emotional story about villainy. It makes for great clickbait, but it makes for terrible policy.
“The Olympic Herald writes an alarming headline, Clallamity Jen spins it into a Substack treatise on municipal doom,”
And your last article is from January. You don’t have to like what the rest of us publish, but that is something we’re doing that you are not doing. Publishing, writing, memeing, and creating local content.
Again, just say “Jeff, I don’t like you” because that’s shorter to read and more honest than the ‘familiar play’ drivel you post in comments. LOL.
Wow PM you almost made a record for your comment today. 19 people took a nap during reading such a long winded lecture on Jeff and CCWD. You honestly make no sense out of your essay today, all over the place. We don’t need a history lesson your critique of Jeff’s articles as we have our own brains to digest what we read.
Regarding ballots perhaps Gayle Baker could chime in on this thread to explain the process or any investigative information regarding the excessive 200 votes not counted?
It is my understanding, having been a vote observer, the original ballot envelopes are retained for a retention period, like 2-5 years and an electronic copy of the front and back of the envelope is created. The envelopes contain signatures & should have postmarks or not on them. There is a lot of room before the ballot reaches the table at the county for invalidity. I would suggest if using the USPS to physically go inside & request your ballot be postmarked & photograph the stamped envelope with a cell phone. If you can not do this your PCO (Precinct Officer) can pick up your ballot & do it for you. If you don’t know who to vote for your PCO can be of assistance in helping to cast votes. If you don’t know who your PCO is contact the county GOP & they can give you the contact info. Also, the PCO can assist with the online voter site to check if your ballot has been received at the county, VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Who knows the location for the next PBH project? Will it be another premium real estate location? How much property tax would a privately developed and owned condo building at the Northview site have generated? Which neighbors are next to have PBH shadows blocking the sun?
When I was in school, the carpentry class built a house, wouldn’t that be great on the job training, of course they learned from the beginning , house plans, permits etc, wouldn’t that be great and cheaper plus learn a trade
Wow, Jeff, a great collection of topics. But, given my attention span, let me comment on the first before I read on. Climate change. If you look at https://web.archive.org/web/20190807214029/http://www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html you will see a graph showing 500 million years of DRAMATIC climate change. Note that humans only existed in the final division of the graph. The rising temperatures at the end-- due to urbanization confounding temperature measurements-- is due to the ending of the current ice age. Climate change is a slow, 10,000 yr to 1 million year process, not 200 years like the corrupt money grabbers want you to believe. It is caused by solar variations and Milankovitch Cycles. Human activity is imperceptibly small and our mitigations even if we killed off all humans on the planet, would not offset the solar variations. Climate Change is being used as a scam to suck tax money from us and justify Draconian suppression of our rights. In other words, it is pure, unadulturated horseshit, perpetuated by grant whores whose careers depend on "proving" the politicians' lies.
Jeff, You must have screen grabbed my comment before I deleted it. I promised Mike French that I would double check my notes when I return from a work trip (that I am still on). I did find an old email to Drew Schwab on March 16, 2024 where I said something very similar…. however, I want to do more research and look at my old meeting notes to reverify. I may not be remembering all of the details precisely. What is likely is that sometime before March 2024, there was a discussion where I asked Mike about his views on STRs. His response led me to send an email suggesting Mike agreed with Lindsey. Again, I have a huge file from way back then. I need to double check my notes. I don’t want to mislead anyone. French once accused me of lying on another topic but I was proven correct. He apologized to me but not to the multiple people he said it too. The last thing I want to be accused of is slander. To the best of my recollection, sometime prior to mid March 2024 and based on our conversations, my interpretation was that his view was more strict on STR regulations. I’ll keep digging in my old notes when I get home and publish anything else that can set the record straight. Until then, please remove that comment.
The Dems still get too much mileage out of climate change. It’s important in their seduction of youth and keeping the fearful gullible used idiots in line.
I disagree that it’s a complex issue. It’s a simple evil fraud based on easily exposed lies.
It deserves more attention.
(From the archives. Sorry).
The old con - watch over here, look up. The CO2 in the atmosphere is an existential threat. But don’t look in your community or your home or your kids’ school, you are saving the planet.
I am certain we are being played by people with evil intentions. They are against nuclear while claiming we face an “existential threat” from man-made CO2 caused global warming. If the threat were existential, it would be “all hands on deck,” right? No option would be over looked. All would be on the table.
The “global warming” lie and the “energy shortage” lie are the rationale and thumbscrews to force Americans to accept and endure higher exhaled CO2 in tighter poorly ventilated homes, schools, offices, etc.. Keep looking up while the real problem is in your noses, lungs, and blood.They won’t address the harm this is causing. In fact, they deny any harm and manufacture phony reasons to try to explain away the harm.
Nor will they examine whether tighter buildings are a false savings. In my piece about the evil CDC, I explain how it causes more not less energy use. (And I have more reasons now).
Perhaps the crown jewel is “peer review,” which was implemented at the same time global warming and energy lies were invented and tighter buildings were required. It is ‘prior to publication’ censorship designed to keep their lies from being exposed and you from learning the truth.
There are no “greenhouse gases” because earth is not a greenhouse. No gas makes a greenhouse warm unless it’s the propane in the heaters, otherwise it’s the greenhouse GLASS that can make a greenhouse warm. No gas has the properties of that glass, nor does the earth.
It’s the solid nature of glass and rigidity of the glass walls and roof that keeps the wind, snow, rain, etc. out while allowing light to pass through but blocking infrared radiation, IR, from escaping to the atmosphere.
The earth has no rigid walls like a greenhouse. The atmosphere expands and contracts. Wind, snow, etc. can pass through CO2 molecules in the atmosphere, even more easily when the air expands with warming.
Three bands representing about 15% of the IR spectrum are involved when talking about CO2 versus 100% for glass. It is claimed that the CO2 absorbs the IR electromagnetic radiation in the 3 bands. These are the wavelengths or frequencies at which the carbon-oxygen bonds in CO2 resonate, are excited. Excitation suggests motion. Motion is not heat. What would be the source of friction within the CO2 molecule to generate heat and radiate IR?
“Greenhouse gas” is a corruption of language, the kind the left is famous for. “Atmospheric rivers,” “King tides,” and “bomb cyclones” are additional examples. Then there’s the old standby, “gun violence.” Again, there are no such things. They are concocted to deceive, panic, and stampede.
The earth was once super hot (estimated at 3,680 degrees Fahrenheit) and the air was mostly CO2 (all the carbon had been burned, incinerated, cremated, oxidized into CO2). If CO2 causes warming, the earth could not have cooled, ever.
The temperature portion of the laws for the solubility of a gas in a liquid tells us that warming is the cause of the rise in CO2 in the air. Anyone who has opened a carbonated beverage container has witnessed CO2 bubbles escaping as the liquid warms. Every ocean, lake, pond, river, swamp, bog, bit of moist earth has its own source of CO2, some of which will be released with warming. If CO2 really caused warming, there would be a positive feedback loop leading to catastrophe. It’s never happened before and never will. CO2 does not cause warming.
Remember “global warming” is really not about warming. It’s about slower cooling. If CO2 works as claimed, it cannot cause warming in a cooling period, and it could only boost temperatures if in a warming period.
And, if CO2 works as claimed, it seems there is an easy way to test that. Look for a change in the rate of cooling. Higher temperatures do not provide proof. However, if the difference between day time high temperatures and night time low temperatures were to decrease, that could be a strong argument supporting CO2 as an agent causing warming.
Why haven’t we seen such data? Must be it doesn’t help the cause of man-made CO2 caused “global warming.”
Spring is probably best for research as the daily variations in temperature are greatest.
It would demand a lot of data. In addition, looking at the change after one hour, two hours, etc. could be informative as it may minimize the impact of changes in the weather, a new system moving in. Avoid “heat islands” and other unnatural conditions.
Fifthly (is that even a word?) crime. When activist judges and DAs release violent criminals hours after deputies arrest them, is it any wonder that crime is high? Some of these miscreants get arrested for violent crimes TWICE the same day! I read about a woman being raped, the rapist arrested and released the same day, only to go back and rape the same woman AGAIN! These are the kinds of judges and DAs were have.
Fourthly (yes, I am on a roll), the voting debacle in this county is incredible. Those ballots from the drop box at J.C. Penney's should have been collected by an election representative at 8:00 PM on the voting day. Clearly someone dropped the ball and those ballots that were in the box before 8:00PM were rejected. Accident? Anomaly?
Consider the 2020 election, where Election Integrity groups canvassed neighborhoods and found ballots from empty lots, non-existent addresses, gas stations, convenience stores, strip malls all voting, and homes where as many as a dozen "voters" purportedly lived, but the real residence never heard of those phantoms.
This entire county reeks with corruption. It is overflowing into my chest-high waders!
Homelessness is created by clallam county government, they don't want to help the workers here, they continue to support addicts through harm reduction..what a joke!
We keep rolling out the red carpet for the drug-addicted homeless and then wondering why they line up for services, lol.
LIVING BEYOND MY MEANS, BEYOND YOUR MEANS, AND BEYOND RATIONAL COMPREHENSION The curb appeal of Permanent Supportive Housing
$842,105 for an Apartment in Sequim
When Mike French says he is bringing affordable housing to Sequim, this is what he means: bulldoze 17 apartment units, build 36, spend $16 million—mostly taxpayer money—and call it progress. Net gain: 19 units. Average cost: $842,105 per apartment. Permanent supportive housing for the homeless...typically 3–5 bedrooms, 2,100–3,200 square feet, often single-level living, 3–4 baths, half an acre to an acre, frequently with mountain or water views.
Have we all lost our minds? If you work, or your spouse works, and suddenly become disabled either mentally or physically, you would never get these kinds of luxury benefits. Perhaps you could apply for a wheelchair ramp to your front door, but to get the ‘full monty’ and live better than where you presently live, you’d have to become a monetarily unproductive member of society.
Come on Mike French, build within our means, supply help within our means, not what is beyond rational, basic and affordable support care.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.70a.030
RCW 36.70A.030
Definitions.
(33) "Permanent supportive housing" is subsidized, leased housing with NO LIMIT ON LENGTH OF STAY that PRIORITIZES people who need comprehensive support services to retain tenancy and utilizes admissions practices designed to use lower barriers to entry than would be typical for other subsidized or unsubsidized rental housing, especially related to rental history, criminal history, and personal behaviors. Permanent supportive housing is paired with on-site or off-site voluntary services designed to support a person living with a complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health condition who was experiencing homelessness or was at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into housing to retain their housing and be a successful tenant in a housing arrangement, improve the resident's health status, and connect the resident of the housing with community-based health care, treatment, or employment services. Permanent supportive housing is subject to all of the rights and responsibilities defined in chapter 59.18 RCW.
What i’d like to know, don’t you think many of the senior citizens who can’t afford their homes now love to live in a $ 842,000 apartment.
All they care about is the homeless don’t get me wrong there is a need for OUR LOCAL HOMELESS but what about all the seniors who are one step out the door to homelessness?
4PA has it right, build tiny homes, this also helps them move to a better step forward at a fraction of the cost. There’s a company in Seattle making homeless shelters cabins that can be put up in a flash, withstand our weather etc, that would save millions
Where are the trade schools and or classes they should be building these houses for the county for many reasonable reasons.
Common sense VOTE the wedge VOTE Jake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufw9dVys3t0
THE HOSPITAL GETS ANOTHER WARNING: IT WAS PREDICTABLE
Nov 2, 2025 “The following article was developed primarily from the substantial research and writings of Steven Pelayo, whose detailed analyses and community discussions have helped illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Olympic Medical Center. His work—shared across public forums, community groups, and with the Port Angeles City Council—provides the foundation for nearly every insight contained here”
https://www.clallamcountysolutions.com/p/omc-at-a-crossroads-whats-broken
Another well informed citizen who should have been listened to, but was not heard
Stop it! You mean tribes are raping and pillaging a threatened fishery?? Aren’t they supposed to be the ultimate stewards of the land and all its natural resources? Must be an AI-generated spoof, right?????
Let me see: Who fishes with gill nets?
More to the point, who is allowed to fish with gill nets?
Commercial fishermen who hold the proper license and meet equipment and operational requirements. It’s not a tribal thing.
https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/departments/fisheries/tribal-fishing-hunting/
Tribal fisheries and hunting are regulated by the Suquamish Tribal Government as are all the other Wa Tribes
I bought fifteen salmon from a white commercial fisherman a couple of years ago. He lives in Sequim and uses gill nets like everyone else (commercial).
Another great Watchdog, Patriot Jeff Tozzer~!
I don't know where you find the time to be SO expertly vigilant, however many here in our community are grateful for your excellent work! I am sure that the small number of your loud clueless detractors will remain as blind as rabid bats in a blender, where they find some sick kind of comfort willfully ignoring the devastation being wrought upon our community by their "feel good" criminals in our local governmental systems here. Your greater work is in reaching out to those who care not for "political badges and sick bragging rights", but who love and respect our beautiful community and actually care about those within it~! It takes a "special kind of evil fiend" to put their politics and criminally perverse anti-American agenda ahead of doing the right things for folks. There is very obviously a well-coordinated assault upon our community that has, and continues to be, cloaked by a thin disguise of "politics as usual" that these cowardly underhanded socialists are orchestrating to usher in their communistic dictatorial Hell on earth here. You and many here can see, smell, and feel it, as these Treasonous criminals push our beloved community more & more towards their insane notion of a "nirvana" that will NEVER materialize. Those of us who have studied REAL history well know that there has always been a small number of Individuals who, for a wide variety of serious mental issues, believe that they are Intellectually superior to everyone else AND that they therefore know better how to rule over all others~! They ALWAYS believe that they can do it better than the last evil criminals of humanity who dramatically failed... They are THE wannabe "Kings" who ALWAYS work to trick the impressionable weak-minded folks into believing that they are against Kings and dictators, when they are themselves the very dictator wannabes. By hook AND by crook, by any devious means necessary, they constantly conspire to work to undermine the good well working aspects and the good folks of society, blaming everything but themselves for THEIR dirty dealings and path of evil destruction~! Yes, the absolute proof of this is currently in all of our faces right here in Clallam County, however for those who are also paying attention to the bigger picture, this same process of evil destruction by those with criminal Intent is literally EVERYWHERE in America and the world today~! The evil ones are screaming because they are being exposed for what they REALLY are, which exposes them even more~! I can see the good folks everywhere who are fighting their own local battles for the greater good, which has been a long time coming and none too soon~! The "climate change cult" is just another tentacle of the evil old octopus that seeks to destroy and devour its prey, just like the manufactured California "desert tortoise" scam, the California "river smelt" scam, the Pacific Northwest "spotted owl" scam, and the many other completely insane violations of REAL science that have weaponized nature against our Individual freedom and rights~! Always remember the way that these criminals of humanity weaponized the traditional "cold and flu season" to trick good folks into becoming panicked enough to accept ALL of those completely unscientific "mandates" and to also lure them into taking the highly dangerous and deadly so-called COVID "vaccines"~! That mass murder atrocity actually briefly pushed back the curtain that the evil Wizard of Oz was hiding behind, so Americans and folks all over the world MUST never forget that horrific lesson that came at such an epic cost to all of us~! I extend a very special thanks to Patrick Murphy for his Patriotic strength to take a stand against the local cabal of Treasonous fiends who well know the crimes and injustices that they have been, are, and plot to continue committing~! Who else but an insider like Patrick Murphy would know better, about the criminal and unconstitutional behavior of the very Treasonous ones in our community and governmental systems here~? My wife and I met Patrick Murphy (and his supportive mother) at the Clallam County Fair last August and after talking with him we were favorably impressed enough to now have one of his signs supporting him in this November's midterm election along with two Jake Seegers signs in front of our property here~! Many Americans know that the election system throughout the US has been terribly compromised for quite a while, however I can see that most still don't realize how deeply our elections have been rigged and in how many ways. Long ago now President Trump issued an Executive Order for ALL states to clean up their voter rolls and election systems. Not one state has done so~! This automatically gives President Trump and/or The US Military, the full Constitutionally lawful authority, duty, and obligation, to halt this November's midterm election, or its fraudulent results, as a VERY serious matter of national security, until clean and honest elections can resume. I and some others believe that this is in fact part of "The Plan" of President Trump and The White Hats that has been unfolding for many years now. ALL Americans need to understand that ALL of our freedom and rights hinge upon our absolutely critical right to vote in our representative Republic~! This right of the LEGAL Americans to vote has been terribly compromised for many decades now, more so in some jurisdictions that in others, so I strongly encourage everyone to remain calm, do NOT jump to false conclusions (especially the usual false conclusions and lies pushed by the usual suspects of the evil political cabal), stay as healthy as possible, enjoy every day as much as possible, and to be well stocked up with food, water, medicines, and any other things that will be necessary to comfortably make it through any supply line issues that could arise~! Don't forget the chocolate treats! HA~! A one-month supply would be very good and don't forget the needs of your animal family... We here always try to have a little more for others in the community just in case, but that is what proper country folks always do because we know that there is more safety in having a little buffer of necessary items. I do NOT have a crystal ball, and my "inside information is limited, however the potential of supply line disruptions is undeniable in the foreseeable future, so it would only be prudent to take some minimal precautions. Emergency provisions MAY come in handy, but in our decades of experience it is first best to buy and store only what you usually normally intend to actually use!
Have a great and safe weekend~!
Sincerely, Mike
I have a lot of help :)
The more I learn the more disgusted I become! Sisk obviously is in a different income bracket than anybody most likely in Clallam County. Perhaps if she was knocked down a few notches and lived within the means of the rest of the population in Clallam County things would be decidedly different? Yet, this is the person in charge of deciding how our tax dollars should be spent. I thought the last group home at $350K per unit was ridiculous and now the green light on another build per unit of over $800K per unit! The city & counties are way over taxing home owners if there is this amount of money available to be spent on housing for homeless. I’m having a real hard time wrapping my brain around it all & so should every tax payer in Clallam County. People worried about “No KING’s” need their heads examined when they are being over taxed for this kind of help & support for the down & out people in this county! The cheaper solution would be to transport them out of here. Let Seattle deal with it rather than continue to roll out the welcome mat to homelessness here providing a place for the Seattle homeless to land. Tax payers here have it tough enough with lack of adequate health care, aging processes, cost of living short of actual increases, etc., etc., etc. The county is strained, it is struggling, last year it was on life support & had to cut back 7% and people lost their jobs! Why would we allow this type of strain to occur? What are the other alternatives?
One thing is for sure, this county needs new leadership. What has happened the last 10 years has been worse not better.
Vote the wedge VOTE JAKE!
There is a particular brand of local political punditry that operates like a rogue strip-mall tax attorney: full of loud, dramatic hand-waving, utterly terrified of the fine print, and deeply reliant on the assumption that nobody reading will ever bother to check a single underlying law or fact.
When an opinion writer throws a fit because a local official dares to use the word "complex," what they are really mourning is the loss of a simple, outrageous fairy tale. Explaining how municipal governance actually works is a threat to the outrage machine. Pointing out the boring mechanics of state-level tax credit covenants, jurisdictional boundaries between cities and counties, or regional utility impact fees spoils a perfectly good rant. Defining policy bottlenecks is providing necessary administrative context. Throwing up hands and treating a single anonymous Facebook comment as an epic thesis on systemic political cowardice is just lazy performance art. Equating an official, (French), who takes forty-five minutes to explain inter-governmental funding streams with a candidate, (Jake), who simply shrugs and points wildly at a nearby park is a grand exercise in false equivalency.
Then comes the great short-term rental debate, where the local narrative treats vacation rentals as a sacred constitutional right while portraying any attempt at municipal zoning as a communist plot. Reclaiming a handful of vacation rentals for the long-term housing market is obviously not a silver bullet for extreme poverty, because a converted coastal rental is going to re-enter the market as a high-end single-family property, not a subsidized apartment. Yet pretending that a dense concentration of mini-hotels inside residential neighborhoods has zero effect on rental vacancy rates requires a total suspension of basic arithmetic. Regulating vacation rentals is a standard, run-of-the-mill planning tool to keep a town’s working class from being priced into pitching tents in the woods, not a moral crusade against second-home owners. The grandest irony of the whole holy war, of course, is that the very folks preaching this sermon of unfettered market purity always seem to have skin in the game, conveniently forgetting to mention the cute little vacation cottage or short-term property deed sitting comfortably in their own portfolio while they rail against regulation.
Which brings us to the beloved $842,105 apartment headline, a number specifically engineered to make local taxpayers choke on their morning coffee. To arrive at that terrifying figure, one must engage in a glorious mathematical sleight of hand: take the entire multi-million dollar capital cost of a multi-family construction project--which includes land acquisition, utility main extensions, commercial environmental reviews, ADA accessibility, and prevailing wage mandates--and divide it exclusively by the net new units created. In doing so, the math completely erases the seventeen aging, end-of-life structures being replaced with modern, permanent housing stock, assigning their replacement a value of absolute zero. Comparing the per-unit construction cost of a multi-story supportive housing facility to the purchase price of an existing, thirty-year-old single-family house on the open market is like comparing the cost of building a public hospital to buying a used station wagon. Buying an existing house adds zero new beds to a starved housing pool; commercial construction creates permanent infrastructure. Toss in the reality that multi-family impact fees in Sequim are higher by municipal design, reflecting local development standards rather than wild government waste, and the entire outrage falls apart under the weight of basic building codes.
The paranoia extends right down to the mailboxes. When a resident complains about a late ballot, the local commentary machine immediately sniffs out a dark, deep-state election plot inside the county auditor’s office. They conveniently ignore the fact that the United States Postal Service rerouted rural mail collection to regional processing plants miles away, meaning a ballot dropped in a blue box on election afternoon might not get a physical postmark until it hits a sorting hub the next morning. Framing a federal mail-routing headache as proof of local election fraud requires ignoring strict, bipartisan drop-box audit trails and chain-of-custody logs that have been enshrined in state law for years.
To top off the circus, the Watchdog and Patrick Murphy drag out third-party internet scrapers like Crimebycity.com to declare the area a lawless wasteland ranking in the bottom percentiles for safety. These automated lead-generator sites exist for one single purpose: to trick anxious home-buyers into clicking on real estate ads. They run raw, delayed FBI data dumps through secret, proprietary algorithms that take a tiny numerical crime shift in a small population of twenty thousand people and mathematically blow it out of proportion to make it look like a war zone. Citing a real estate ad-farm as an authoritative police audit is the political equivalent of citing a horoscope to prove the weather forecast.
It is an exquisite addition to the local feedback loop: an aggregator site scrapes outdated FBI data, The Olympic Herald writes an alarming headline, Clallamity Jen spins it into a Substack treatise on municipal doom, Murphy cites the blog post as independent proof of a crime wave, and Jeff packages the whole incestuous routine into a newsletter headline. Nobody in this human-centipede of political commentary ever pauses to ask a single police chief for an actual local incident log. They just keep passing the same scraped, recycled numbers around in a circle, mistaking the sound of their own echo chamber for a public mandate.
When you strip away the secondary Substack echo loops, the scraped internet statistics, and the manufactured cost breakdowns, you are left with a very familiar play: convert the dry, highly regulated, and often frustrating friction of local government into an easy, emotional story about villainy. It makes for great clickbait, but it makes for terrible policy.
“The Olympic Herald writes an alarming headline, Clallamity Jen spins it into a Substack treatise on municipal doom,”
And your last article is from January. You don’t have to like what the rest of us publish, but that is something we’re doing that you are not doing. Publishing, writing, memeing, and creating local content.
Again, just say “Jeff, I don’t like you” because that’s shorter to read and more honest than the ‘familiar play’ drivel you post in comments. LOL.
Wow PM you almost made a record for your comment today. 19 people took a nap during reading such a long winded lecture on Jeff and CCWD. You honestly make no sense out of your essay today, all over the place. We don’t need a history lesson your critique of Jeff’s articles as we have our own brains to digest what we read.
Awkward silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGtBnVZLSk
One of the OMC general surgeons submitted his resignation (not retirement) in the last week. That's another signal of dissent.
Regarding ballots perhaps Gayle Baker could chime in on this thread to explain the process or any investigative information regarding the excessive 200 votes not counted?
It is my understanding, having been a vote observer, the original ballot envelopes are retained for a retention period, like 2-5 years and an electronic copy of the front and back of the envelope is created. The envelopes contain signatures & should have postmarks or not on them. There is a lot of room before the ballot reaches the table at the county for invalidity. I would suggest if using the USPS to physically go inside & request your ballot be postmarked & photograph the stamped envelope with a cell phone. If you can not do this your PCO (Precinct Officer) can pick up your ballot & do it for you. If you don’t know who to vote for your PCO can be of assistance in helping to cast votes. If you don’t know who your PCO is contact the county GOP & they can give you the contact info. Also, the PCO can assist with the online voter site to check if your ballot has been received at the county, VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Who knows the location for the next PBH project? Will it be another premium real estate location? How much property tax would a privately developed and owned condo building at the Northview site have generated? Which neighbors are next to have PBH shadows blocking the sun?
Movin on up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufw9dVys3t0
When I was in school, the carpentry class built a house, wouldn’t that be great on the job training, of course they learned from the beginning , house plans, permits etc, wouldn’t that be great and cheaper plus learn a trade
Wow, Jeff, a great collection of topics. But, given my attention span, let me comment on the first before I read on. Climate change. If you look at https://web.archive.org/web/20190807214029/http://www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html you will see a graph showing 500 million years of DRAMATIC climate change. Note that humans only existed in the final division of the graph. The rising temperatures at the end-- due to urbanization confounding temperature measurements-- is due to the ending of the current ice age. Climate change is a slow, 10,000 yr to 1 million year process, not 200 years like the corrupt money grabbers want you to believe. It is caused by solar variations and Milankovitch Cycles. Human activity is imperceptibly small and our mitigations even if we killed off all humans on the planet, would not offset the solar variations. Climate Change is being used as a scam to suck tax money from us and justify Draconian suppression of our rights. In other words, it is pure, unadulturated horseshit, perpetuated by grant whores whose careers depend on "proving" the politicians' lies.
Jeff, You must have screen grabbed my comment before I deleted it. I promised Mike French that I would double check my notes when I return from a work trip (that I am still on). I did find an old email to Drew Schwab on March 16, 2024 where I said something very similar…. however, I want to do more research and look at my old meeting notes to reverify. I may not be remembering all of the details precisely. What is likely is that sometime before March 2024, there was a discussion where I asked Mike about his views on STRs. His response led me to send an email suggesting Mike agreed with Lindsey. Again, I have a huge file from way back then. I need to double check my notes. I don’t want to mislead anyone. French once accused me of lying on another topic but I was proven correct. He apologized to me but not to the multiple people he said it too. The last thing I want to be accused of is slander. To the best of my recollection, sometime prior to mid March 2024 and based on our conversations, my interpretation was that his view was more strict on STR regulations. I’ll keep digging in my old notes when I get home and publish anything else that can set the record straight. Until then, please remove that comment.
Sorry Steven, I replied to the wrong person, I meant to reply to a primate.
The Dems still get too much mileage out of climate change. It’s important in their seduction of youth and keeping the fearful gullible used idiots in line.
I disagree that it’s a complex issue. It’s a simple evil fraud based on easily exposed lies.
It deserves more attention.
(From the archives. Sorry).
The old con - watch over here, look up. The CO2 in the atmosphere is an existential threat. But don’t look in your community or your home or your kids’ school, you are saving the planet.
I am certain we are being played by people with evil intentions. They are against nuclear while claiming we face an “existential threat” from man-made CO2 caused global warming. If the threat were existential, it would be “all hands on deck,” right? No option would be over looked. All would be on the table.
The “global warming” lie and the “energy shortage” lie are the rationale and thumbscrews to force Americans to accept and endure higher exhaled CO2 in tighter poorly ventilated homes, schools, offices, etc.. Keep looking up while the real problem is in your noses, lungs, and blood.They won’t address the harm this is causing. In fact, they deny any harm and manufacture phony reasons to try to explain away the harm.
Nor will they examine whether tighter buildings are a false savings. In my piece about the evil CDC, I explain how it causes more not less energy use. (And I have more reasons now).
Perhaps the crown jewel is “peer review,” which was implemented at the same time global warming and energy lies were invented and tighter buildings were required. It is ‘prior to publication’ censorship designed to keep their lies from being exposed and you from learning the truth.
There are no “greenhouse gases” because earth is not a greenhouse. No gas makes a greenhouse warm unless it’s the propane in the heaters, otherwise it’s the greenhouse GLASS that can make a greenhouse warm. No gas has the properties of that glass, nor does the earth.
It’s the solid nature of glass and rigidity of the glass walls and roof that keeps the wind, snow, rain, etc. out while allowing light to pass through but blocking infrared radiation, IR, from escaping to the atmosphere.
The earth has no rigid walls like a greenhouse. The atmosphere expands and contracts. Wind, snow, etc. can pass through CO2 molecules in the atmosphere, even more easily when the air expands with warming.
Three bands representing about 15% of the IR spectrum are involved when talking about CO2 versus 100% for glass. It is claimed that the CO2 absorbs the IR electromagnetic radiation in the 3 bands. These are the wavelengths or frequencies at which the carbon-oxygen bonds in CO2 resonate, are excited. Excitation suggests motion. Motion is not heat. What would be the source of friction within the CO2 molecule to generate heat and radiate IR?
“Greenhouse gas” is a corruption of language, the kind the left is famous for. “Atmospheric rivers,” “King tides,” and “bomb cyclones” are additional examples. Then there’s the old standby, “gun violence.” Again, there are no such things. They are concocted to deceive, panic, and stampede.
The earth was once super hot (estimated at 3,680 degrees Fahrenheit) and the air was mostly CO2 (all the carbon had been burned, incinerated, cremated, oxidized into CO2). If CO2 causes warming, the earth could not have cooled, ever.
The temperature portion of the laws for the solubility of a gas in a liquid tells us that warming is the cause of the rise in CO2 in the air. Anyone who has opened a carbonated beverage container has witnessed CO2 bubbles escaping as the liquid warms. Every ocean, lake, pond, river, swamp, bog, bit of moist earth has its own source of CO2, some of which will be released with warming. If CO2 really caused warming, there would be a positive feedback loop leading to catastrophe. It’s never happened before and never will. CO2 does not cause warming.
Remember “global warming” is really not about warming. It’s about slower cooling. If CO2 works as claimed, it cannot cause warming in a cooling period, and it could only boost temperatures if in a warming period.
And, if CO2 works as claimed, it seems there is an easy way to test that. Look for a change in the rate of cooling. Higher temperatures do not provide proof. However, if the difference between day time high temperatures and night time low temperatures were to decrease, that could be a strong argument supporting CO2 as an agent causing warming.
Why haven’t we seen such data? Must be it doesn’t help the cause of man-made CO2 caused “global warming.”
Spring is probably best for research as the daily variations in temperature are greatest.
It would demand a lot of data. In addition, looking at the change after one hour, two hours, etc. could be informative as it may minimize the impact of changes in the weather, a new system moving in. Avoid “heat islands” and other unnatural conditions.
conspAIRacy.com/evilcdc.html
Chemtrails and lies lies and money money!!
Although "sixthly" is definitely a word (as is fifthly), I will stop here.
Fifthly (is that even a word?) crime. When activist judges and DAs release violent criminals hours after deputies arrest them, is it any wonder that crime is high? Some of these miscreants get arrested for violent crimes TWICE the same day! I read about a woman being raped, the rapist arrested and released the same day, only to go back and rape the same woman AGAIN! These are the kinds of judges and DAs were have.
Fourthly (yes, I am on a roll), the voting debacle in this county is incredible. Those ballots from the drop box at J.C. Penney's should have been collected by an election representative at 8:00 PM on the voting day. Clearly someone dropped the ball and those ballots that were in the box before 8:00PM were rejected. Accident? Anomaly?
Consider the 2020 election, where Election Integrity groups canvassed neighborhoods and found ballots from empty lots, non-existent addresses, gas stations, convenience stores, strip malls all voting, and homes where as many as a dozen "voters" purportedly lived, but the real residence never heard of those phantoms.
This entire county reeks with corruption. It is overflowing into my chest-high waders!