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• The Great Clark County Collusion Caper Debunked

  
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  As we in Clark County are aware of, given we have been inundated for over a week now of article after article from the local mouthpiece hating the hiring of Don Benton to head the county department of environmental services, allegations of “collusion” have been raised in an effort to stir up citizens to support a ...
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• Hitler Finds Out Don Benton Was Hired

  
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  Hitler gets wind of Don Benton being hired to head the Dept of the environment and realizes all of blustering and scheming  with certain people won’t change a thing
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• Tri-Mess And The Train To Nowhere

  
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  The former transit agency (now a development agency) is spending $1.5 billion to build a 7.3-mile light rail line into northwest Clackamas County, despite the fact that most county residents oppose it. By the way, that $1.5 billion is only the construction costs; operating the "trains" will cost extra, as has been ...
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• Colorado celebrates National Train Day

  
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  In late April, RTD celebrated the opening of the West line of light rail. (Photo By Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post) By Jim Souby Guest Commentary This Saturday (May 11), we celebrate National Train Day, commemorating the driving of the “Golden Spike” in 1869. This ceremonial spike secured the last ...
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• Multipurpose Trains

  
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  MAX Light Rail is the centerpiece of the citys public transportation system  As if the gang-bangers werent enough, Tri-Mets light rail "trains" have also been serving as places of business for a prostitution ring. Giggity! Talk about convenience.... Last Tuesday (05/07/13), cops and transit police participated ...
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• New “Light Rail Links” coalition indicator of Surrey momentum

  
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  Surrey is getting serious: Surrey business and community groups are  launching a new campaign to get light-rail transit on track for south of the  Fraser. The Surrey Board of Trade announced a new  coalition — Light Rail Links — which is joining the call for an LRT solution to  the region’s lack of rapid ...
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• More at Risk of Homelessness, So Recall Those Trying to Prevent It

  
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  There is little doubt that the Lazy C, legally known as the Columbian, the unofficial daily newsletter for the Democrat Party is one of the poorest excuses for a newspaper seen. Their bias reeks as does their contradictions in articles often published. It’s not unheard of to see one article one day boasting of home ...
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• Lazy C Sets New All-Time Record, Stirs Up Lynch Mob, But Fails to Oust Benton

  
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  The Lazy C, the unofficial daily newsletter for the Democrat Party, the Mouthpiece is well known for their deep leftist bias, in spite of denials from editorialista Lou Brancaccio. Legally registered under the title the Columbian, too many times they have exposed themselves as anything but objective, all too often ...
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• Crenshaw Line: Metro Windfall Wont Help Crenshaw Lines Leimert Park Stop

  
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  The same day that Metro delayed making a decision on whether the Crenshaw Line would include a Leimert Park Village station, it got news that it received $390 million from the state to improve public transit and air quality. The majority of that money will go to the Regional Connector tunnel in DTLA thatll ...
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• We Must Build More Transit and Better Urbanism

  
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  Kate Wolford’s Star Tribune commentary calling for more transit was spot on. Our peer cities (Denver, Portland, Charlotte, Salt Lake City, hell, even St. Louis!) are ahead of us in terms of built rail miles, lines and stations. We must do more than catch up to remain an attractive metro area for all. Rail miles, ...
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• Tri-Mess Defense Team Swings Into Action

  
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  The Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon while fully raised.  Great story in The Oregonian today about yesterdays light rail failure, and the story illustrates why the newspapers lost another nearly 8% of its circulation during the past year. Crack Zero reporter Joseph Rose homes in on the problem which ...
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• Disappointing French ruling on Veolia still paves way for suing occupation profiteers

  
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  Versailles court dismisses appeal over French corporations’ involvement in Jerusalem light rail project.
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• Maryland to update public on Purple Line progress

  
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  The Purple Line has been out of the news for a while, so heres a refresher: The Purple Line is a purple line on planners maps of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties that gets argued about from time to time because it could someday be a transitway. Read full article >>        
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• Sound Transit breaks ground on airport extension

  
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  Work has started on a 1.6 mile light rail extension to add to Seattle’s growing network. The new elevated line will connect Angle Lake station, which will be located at South 200 th Street and 28 th Ave S, with Downtown Seattle via Sea-Tac International Airport. Extending the network to South 200th Street is ...
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• Just What Does Commissioner Stuart Know About ‘Real Leaders?’

  
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  The manufactured flap over the admittedly legal hiring of State Senator Don Benton to be Clark County’s director of environmental services rages on, now with County Commissioner Steve ‘Bullshit’ Stuart deciding to publicly take fellow Commissioner David Madore to task over Madore’s open letter to retiring ...
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• Washington State Rep. Pike Gets It

  
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  Portland Mayor Sam Adams with then-City Councilor Tim Leavitt at a meeting regarding the Columbia River Crossing Project. Leavitt is now Mayor of Vancouver, Washington. She says itd be irresponsible to fund the "Columbia River Crossing", and shes far from alone. She even understands why its such a clusterduck: ...
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• Kristallnacht at the Columbian

  
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  As we all know, Governor Jay Inslee snuck into town a couple weeks ago and issued marching orders to “increase the decibels” to shout down the struggling middle class taxpayers in Clark County who oppose being straddled with decades of increases in the gas tax, license fees, tolls and more to fund the CRC light ...
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• Tri-Mess

  
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  Westside Express Service train at Wilsonville maint. facility.  As mentioned here yesterday, TriMets ticket machines are incredibly unreliable, and its been reported that as many as 2,000 people a month, attempting to pay with a credit card, have had the card rejected and an electronic cancellation message sent ...
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• If only it were that easy to get our act together

  
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  Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has some blunt words for Houston about light rail. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood likes Houston’s light rail that’s up and running but warns that regional transit officials have squandered opportunities the past decade by not building greater ...
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• The updated TRIP app is here

  
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  This came in last week: If you’ve got a smart phone, we’ve just made riding our buses or trains a lot easier. Today, we officially launched the METRO T.R.I.P. app – a tool that retrieves our schedule information, predicts real-time arrival of buses and helps you plan your trip on our system. T.R.I.P. ...
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