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Jamestown Gets the Award and Hosts the Dinner. Alaska Has the Backstory. (opens the original)
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This Saturday, the Jamestown Tribe will collect a healthcare award at its own resort. The same week, a new Substack author — the Grim Reporter — published the Ketchikan years of Brent Simcosky, CEO of Jamestown Healthcare, who oversees the MAT clinic and Salish Seasons. Read that piece, subscribe, and ask why Sequim is handing out praise before anyone here has examined the file. On Saturday, the Olympic Medical Center Foundation will present the Rick Kaps Award to the Jamestown Tribe at Club NOV
The Skunk Brigade, the Grant Machine, and Another Week in Clallam County (opens the original)
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Mike French’s camp has a talking skunk. A county-funded drop-in center has taken sides. A wildlife meeting is tonight, a Seegers rally is Saturday, and Tumwater Creek is still flushing tents, needles, and propane tanks into the harbor. This week’s potpourri is about who gets your money, who gets a pass, and who suddenly hates the idea of opening the books. When the Skunk Becomes Official Opposition Mike French supporters released a video urging voters to stick with the incumbent commissioner. Th
Clallam County’s Two Camps: Recovery, or Managed Decline (opens the original)
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This is no longer a debate about dignity. It is a debate about where Clallam County is taking people. One camp wants to keep expanding a two-decade harm-reduction project: sterile kits, pipes, test strips, naloxone kiosks, and a “non-judgmental” front door that treats continued use as an acceptable long-term condition. The other camp wants people out of tents, out of active addiction, into detox and recovery, and back into ordinary life. Last month’s Board of Health meeting put that fight on the
Shall, Not Should: MRC Letter Turns the Comp Plan Into a 20-Year Land-Use Weapon (opens the original)
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The Marine Resources Committee just told Commissioner Mark Ozias how to write Clallam County’s next 20 years: replace “should” with “shall,” treat climate forecasts as binding, and put a biologist on every Critical Areas and shoreline file. Chair LaTrisha Suggs signed the letter. Commissioners sell housing affordability while this blueprint makes property parcels, wells, and bulkheads cost more in consutlants and time — and leaves trust land, including the Tribe’s 122-acre golf course, off the s
A Tale of Two Waterfront Towns (opens the original)
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Last week in Excelsior, Minnesota, County Commissioner Candidate Jake Seegers found a waterfront town that looks a lot like Port Angeles—except the storefronts were full, the trails were spotless, and no one was camping, dealing, or using drugs in public. The difference wasn’t luck or isolation. It was rules that get enforced, services that aren’t concentrated in one small city, and residents who still expect parks to be parks. If Excelsior can sit 20 miles from Minneapolis and refuse to surrend
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