All of Lewis County just isn’t as important as the part that I-5 runs through. Sorry. The Chehalis Chronicle is outraged by this news, and argues that a better flood mitigation plan would treat the site of an old surplus store equally with the primary interstate economic driver that is our only major north-south freeway.
Governor Chris Gregoire is expected to sign two bills providing $50 million for long-term flood mitigation projects in the areas hardest hit by last year's winter storms - Lewis, Thurston and Gray's Harbor counties. read more »
"I don't want to vote for a rock star. I want somebody who is going to take care of the issues."
- Eric Oleson, an administrator at South Puget Sound Community College, explaining his internal struggle on voting for or against U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) as the next president.