The Beachcomber online has been discovered thanks somewhat to he who publicly shall not be thanked. But Roger is to be thanked since it was he who posted the link to the online article on the council breaking up. Of course, without he who, etc, having caused the breakup, that article would not have been. Discovered, TBC online is updated almost daily with comments on the print edition, and thanks therefore are given. It is too bad that most of the comments contribute nothing useful. The uproar is being confined...

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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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