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The $118,000 Parking Lot: How County Officials and NGOs Lock the Public Out of Taxpayer Spending

The Shotgun Sermon

Cleanups, Courtrooms, Controversies, and Questions

The Second Coming Out

Clallam County’s Response to Privacy Tort Claim Raises Bigger Questions About Surveillance and Accountability

Everything Is About Race—Until It Isn't

"Rock Solid" Science?

Building a Better Safety Net—or a Better Magnet?

Thrown Away, Found: Anniemarie Hogenboom's Journey from Trafficking to Hope

Drug Busts, Departures, Debates, and Divisions

French Earns Wheeler's Endorsement

Severing the Gordian Knot - Part III

Faithfully and Impartially?

Dr. Berry's Response Challenges Recovery Advocate's Information Sources

On the Eve of the Debate, Clallam Democrats Call Jake Seegers “Fake Jake”

How Close Clallam County Came to Testing Illegal Drugs for Users

Selective County Safety and Profane Protest Signs

Public Meeting or Private Gathering?

Severing the Gordian Knot - Part II

OMC Lost More Than 180 Employees After Commissioners Backed Property Tax Hike

Pool Board Says There Were No Incidents. Police Reports Tell a Different Story.

New Complaint Pushes Potential Penalties Against Seegers Campaign Toward $80,000

53 Days Clean: Mary Bickar's Comeback Story

Pool Controversies, Pride Politics, Public Spaces, and More

Rubber Stamp Government? Emails Show NGO Wrote Commissioners' Support Letter

Severing the Gordian Knot - Part I

A $37 Million Bridge, Tribal Branding, and Unanswered Questions

The Two Mike Frenches

Ann Soule Wants Someone to Blame for High Gas Prices. She Forgot to Mention Washington State.

Johanna Bartee Turns the Tables on Jake Seegers

A Brick to the Head, Needles at the Pool, and a Community Asking How Much More?

Caught on Tape Again

The NGO Revolving Door: The Commissioners Keep Writing Checks While Taxpayers Get Locked Out

How a Double Murder Fugitive Lived Here for Over a Decade

When County Commissioners Fund the NGOs They Sit On

One Day of Honor, 364 Days of Neglect

The “Angry Logger” Speaks Out

Growing Frustration Across Clallam County

Once It’s Gone, It’s Gone

“People Who Use Drugs Deserve To Get AIDS and Die?”

"They Know Where We Live"

Taxes for Thee, Exemptions for Me?

Showered With Good Intentions, Drenched in Bad Oversight

Tumwater Tragedy

Caught on Camera? Sign Theft, Political Tensions, and a County Growing More Divided

Sticker Shock: The Clues Behind Port Angeles’ Anti-Seegers Mystery

Fish Wars, Court Wars, and the Myth of the “Perfect Steward”

Can You Identify Who Is Behind the Downtown Sticker Campaign?

GreenLink or Land Grab? The Push to Daylight Valley Creek Raises Big Questions

The Watchdog, the Mole, and Jim Stoffer: A Pattern Decades in the Making

Free Speech Absolutist — Terms and Conditions Apply

From Addiction to Community Builder

Censorship, Smears, and Socialist Gardening Clubs

“MAGA in a Patagonia Jacket?” Reddit, Jake Seegers, and the Politics of Labels

What Jamestown’s Newsletter Reveals About Power, Property, and Influence

"I Don't Want This Coming Out Before the Levy"

From Hoboken to Clallam: How Did We Get Here?

Canceled Meetings & Maui: Who Is Clallam County Working For?

Reopening the Elwha: A Community-Led Path Forward

Stickers, Vouchers, and Double Standards

Political vs. Partisan

A Photo You Can’t Ignore—and a Policy You Can’t Measure

Sequim Council Backs Tribal Takeover of Wildlife Refuges

The OlyCAP Illusion: Public Money, Private Boards, and the Expanding Homelessness Industry

UNDER OATH: Jim Stoffer’s Own Words Raise Serious Questions

Signgate 2026

Social Media Saturday: Cuts, Contradictions, and Consequences

A Culture of Silence: How the Sequim School District Learned to Protect Itself

Clallam County Doesn’t Need Parties. It Needs Independent Thinkers.

Shine a Light, Become a Target

OMC’s Patient Scores Tell a Story Leadership Won’t

Packed House, Unfiltered Answers: A Night That Defined the Divide on Public Safety

When Permits Price People Out

History, “Tranq,” and the Questions No One Wants to Answer

Selective Justice: What the Clallam Relief Act Reveals About the League of Women Voters’ Double Standard

Tonight: The Stories They Can’t Ignore — Public Safety Town Hall

Hodgson’s First Big Push: 24-Hour Bathrooms—Or a Glimpse of What’s Coming Next?

Before You Vote on the Library Levy, Here’s What You Should Know

How the Jamestown Corporation Positioned Itself to Take Control of Our National Wildlife Refuges

“I’d Rather Be in a Tent”: A Candid Conversation from the Edge of Recovery

Policy Meets Reality on Tumwater Creek

When Adults Use Kids as Shields

The Quiet Land Grab

Behind the Curtain: What Jamestown Doesn’t Want You to See

Ozias Blames the Feds — But Clallam County Is Living the Results

Ignored, Then Obedient: How Clallam County Responds to the Jamestown Corporation

Thirty Minutes on the Laurel Street Stairs

The Cost of Lawlessness

Two Recommendations. One Test of Leadership.

A Roadmap to Expansion

County Opens First-Ever Burden Reduction Center

Whose Homeland? What Clallam County Isn’t Being Told

Stickers, Standards, and a Pattern of Disrespect

A Moment No Parent Should Have to Explain

Missing Dogs, Missing Accountability, and a Shooting at Lee Plaza

No Kings? Look Closer — Clallam County Already Has Them

What Your $3 Million Library Tax Hike Is Really Funding

Sequim’s “Letter of Support” Wasn’t Written by Sequim

Caught on Camera, Confessed in Public — And Still No Charges

Two Classes, Two Truths, and Who Gets Heard

The $3 Million Question: Library Priorities on the Ballot

Citizens Step Up, Government Steps Back

The Dungeness Spit: From Co-Management to Ownership

Land Acknowledgements Arrive in Clallam County Government

When Activism, Money, and Accountability Collide

Taxpayers Tighten Their Belts While Olympia Funds Sovereign Nations

Curious Things We’re Asked to Accept

When Citizens Can’t Speak

Sirens, Standoffs, and Street-Level Reality

When Activists Teach History

When a Communist Shows Up at the Podium

When Citizens Speak Up, Government Blinks

Heritage Isn’t Disposable

Courthouse Names, Taxpayer Games, and Community Voices

From Rock Bottom to Redemption

A Week on the Scanner in Clallam County

Selective Tributes Raise Questions

Dr. Allison Berry’s Defenders

Where’s the Media?

Following the Money

Are You on the List?

Harm Reduction Claims are "Berry" Misleading

Downtown Decline, Digital Dogpiles, and the Week That Was Online

League of Women Voters at the Center of CCD Election Controversy

435 Acres Gone? Sequim Bay Trust Land Transfer Raises Big Questions

Harm Reduction, Hypocrisy, and Who Really Pays in Clallam County

NGOs: Where Transparency Goes to Die

When Cleanups Aren’t Enough

Tumwater Tour

Restore Balance at the Clallam Conservation District — Vote Judy Larson

The League of Women Voters and the Politics of Fear

A Victory Lap Too Soon? French Celebrates While Projects Stall

Septic Sandra, Sovereign Exemptions & Selective Urgency

Land Back Is 60 Miles Away

Compassion or Collapse? What’s Happening to Clallam County

In Defense of Privacy

Indecent Exposure Is a Crime. Indecent Leadership Is a Choice.

Residency Questions Surround Mark Hodgson’s Path to Port Angeles

After a Voided Election, CCD Faces a Test of Trust

When Voters Lose Their Voice, Bureaucrats Gain Power

Smoke and Mirrors

Filibusters, Fences, and the Cost of Silence

Reclaiming a County

Paula Allen: "White people are a problem"

The Hidden Freight Surcharge and Who Benefits

How the League of Women Voters Lost Its Way

Renaming the Courthouse, Ignoring the Public

Recompete Rebranded

"Hold Onto the Base So You Don't Lose It!"

Not All Participants Deserve Medals

Proclamations and Encampments Grow at Steady Rate

The Paper Trail That Keeps Power Honest

Uncomfortable Questions

Ousted by Ozias

Nobody’s Minding the Store — But You’re Still Paying the Bill

DCD Director Calls Public Commenters "Rabid"

Prizefight

Ron Allen, Then and Now

Not Their Park to Give Away

Moderation, Missing Minutes, and Paying it Forward

Warnings Ignored, Road Buried

The Cost of Looking the Other Way

The Community Cycle

Clallam County: The "Wild West"

The Pit

Power Without Accountability at the Conservation District

Good Samaritan Breaks His Silence

When “No County Funds” Still Means Taxpayer Money

Guess Who's Back?

A Missed First Impression — And a Council at a Crossroads

Two Months In: What Jake Seegers Is Seeing

Awards, Excuses, and Accountability

Still Waiting for the Numbers

Ron Allen Calls Concerned Citizens "Whiners" and "Complainers"

Jamestown Interested in Quietly Taking Over County Park

A Case That Never Should Have Returned

Different Rules, Same County

The Community Way

Advisory Boards or Echo Chambers?

All Show, No Go

When “Stay Engaged” Replaces Solutions