Two articles caught my ire, uh eye, the credit union and new governance.

Giving up on making a new credit union makes a lot of sense and dashes a lot of hope. I believe I have let it be known that the primary merit of a local CU was the high degree of cooperation it would engender. Point being that the strictly dollar merit of our very own CU would  likely evaporate when the shock waves of assorted disasters reach the Pacific  Northwest. Hyperinflation for example. Point being that we-all  would have...

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The Beachcomber in printing thin pieces on the Council and Credit Union has this critic at its beck and call. Chris Beck should criticize the Council instead of criticizing our civic lack. And the Beachcomber should have delved into the nuts and bolts of that $200,000 instead of just providing an excellent progress report. While noting the good work of the council, Chris neglects mention of what it did not do when K2 went on the market. It did not entertain ideas from the public on how to convert this plant...

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In case the last two posts read like a Chicken Little act, Last week:

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a new feature on their website called "Find Insurance Options". You just provide certain information about your family size, your age, your employment situation, your financial situation, whether you have certain disabilities or diseases, whether you now have Medicare or some other health insurance, or how long you have not had health...

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