When Washington County’s commissioners announced in June that they were allocating $5.9 million from the county’s blight mitigation fund for the demolition of the Washington Mall, the first reaction of many was disbelief. Why would such a large amount of public funds be used to benefit a ...
Misinformation is circulating that Washington County is spending $6 million in county tax money to subsidize a private developer at the former Washington Mall site. That claim is categorically false. The county is using federal grant money – funds that cannot be spent on anything else and ...
Last October, Washington County Treasurer Tom Flickinger wrote in the Observer-Reporter that a conservative is “someone who holds a political outlook rooted in tradition, stability, and individual freedom.” He aptly described the economic and social values shared – at least until recently ...
I often wonder how many people will look back years from now and realize they handed over some of their creative power or self-expression to artificial intelligence, sometimes losing not just the ability to act on their own ideas, but the spark that once made those ideas matter. Writers and ...
When people think about politics, they often focus on Congress or the president. But the truth is, the government that affects your daily life sits right here in our county. County government may work quietly, but it impacts nearly every aspect of life. It manages local courts, public ...
Editor’s note: This is the second of four parts. Donald Trump’s foreign policy is a radical change from the foreign policy of previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican. Since the Cold War, there has been a general bipartisan agreement that the United States should be a ...
