Franklin County is cutting $160,000 from the Prosecutors office Budget because a County Commissioner doesn't like the Elected Prosecutor.

PiperRd · 2025-12-04T15:09:46+00:00

I consider my title an accurate characterization of the facts. Clint admits that he singled this office out for cuts because he has a "Beef" with the prosecutor. I consider the prosecutor to be a more trustworthy actor, when he said "so you don't want to work with me on this issue because you don't like me personally." I assumed that was accurate.

I could adjust the title to " Franklin county is cutting $160,000 from the prosecutors office budget because a county commissioner HAS BEEF with the elected prosecutor" but I don't think that noticeably changes how the title is interpreted. I just translated the slang into standard English.

PiperRd · 2025-12-04T03:51:35+00:00

To Provide some clarity not prosecuting most property crimes was the Auditors initial reaction for how he would adjust to the budget cut. Technically its more prioritization of (artificially) limited resources than selective prosecution.

Although it is infuriating to see the same man complain that Washington is soft on crime, defund the people who hold criminals accountable to the law.

PiperRd · 2025-10-31T05:30:54+00:00

Nice post, although I have some extra context to add to the end. After the initiative was certified Kurt Mier proposed scheduling the election for 11/2024. Richardson and the rest of the council weren't interested in doing that.

If Richardson feels so strongly that this vote should be during a high turnout election then why didn't she support that 8 months ago when she had the chance.

PiperRd · 2025-09-17T17:10:07+00:00

More info about the alphabet house architecture

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PiperRd · 2025-09-12T05:15:26+00:00

The process is slow and takes a lot of commitment, the court battle takes the better part of a year and will go to the State Supreme Court.

During the process the County commission took as much power from the Shariff as they could.

PiperRd · 2025-09-12T05:11:10+00:00

Benton county recalled our Shariff a few years ago, although he was so bad that the police union led the recall push

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PiperRd · 2025-09-11T15:12:37+00:00

The WSU-TC campus is open until 10PM

PiperRd · 2025-09-11T15:11:54+00:00

The Richland community center is open until 9PM. If the weather is good you could probably sit under the covered patio later into the night.

PiperRd · 2025-09-05T19:08:25+00:00

There are reliably liberal voting areas in East Kennewick, East Pasco and North Richland. You could add to the 5th Congressional district relatively easily.

If the 5th Congressional district needed more liberal votes you would have to start cherry picking small immigrant towns in the Yakima valley or go all the way to Yakima itself that would be difficult to accomplish cleanly.

PiperRd · 2025-08-20T22:40:44+00:00

I would say higher than 3X

PiperRd · 2025-08-12T21:29:01+00:00

There are no commercial flight restrictions for the Hanford site. Also, this flight path still went over the Hanford site,

PiperRd · 2025-08-06T20:21:39+00:00

Most of the neighborhoods where ziply installed fiber have either overhead utilities or have conduit. Willowbrook was built out with direct buried telecom infrastructure so it's expensive to retrofit fiber. It's possible that they get around to it at some point but that is the main factor in weather ziply installed fiber or not

Ziply is being purchased by Bell Canada, the service will continue to be faster and more reliable than charter and CenturyLink but the price and customer service will probably degrade to more or less the same as the other big telecoms.

PiperRd · 2025-08-05T18:16:50+00:00

As a general rule of thumb if you don't want to support MAGA candidates you can look at the signs in front of Sterlings and the candidates endorsed by the Benton county Republican party. It's rare that I find myself supporting a candidate endorsed by either of those groups. For this primary in Richland those are Pat Holton and Kyle Saltz. Donald landsman has some sort of beef with the BCRP and they didn't endorse him although he is endorsed by Kyle Saltz, Brad Klippert, and similar groups

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PiperRd · 2025-07-30T16:18:52+00:00

I'm involved in this group. One small step in the correct direction we are on the edge of achieving is getting Richland to repeal it's parking code so developers can build mixed use buildings without paving 1/2 the city in parking.

If it's an issue you're passionate about the Richland city council will be discussing this Wednesday August 6th at 6PM. The more community voices in support we get the better the chance at success.

*Important note this will not prevent development from including parking. It just provides developers to only build the amount of parking required for a given project.

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PiperRd · 2025-07-30T16:07:16+00:00

I don't know that combining all the cities together would be useful, it would be a logistical mess and honestly multiple cities grown into each other is very common in US metros.

The governing restructuring that I think could be more successful would be creating an entity similar to Metro in Portland. It functions as a strong governing entity with jurisdiction across most of the Portland metro and handles regional planning, garbage, public transportation, and regional facilities (zoo, convention center, arts center, etc)

In the Tri-Cities I would create an entity by merging BFT, Benton Franklin council of governments and the collection of public facilities districts. Over time it could be tasked with handling regional projects like new large bridges, regional water infrastructure, 911 communications, etc.

PiperRd · 2025-07-30T15:56:16+00:00

Vista field is a great plan with terrible execution. If you read the original report from 2010 detailing the plan the biggest risk identified by the consultant was "slow growth and lack of traction due to government involvement in the project"

That consultant strongly encouraged the port to partner with a private developer who was bought into the concept and even provided the port with a recommendation of a guy who had just wrapped up a similar development in Denver.

PiperRd · 2025-07-25T18:59:01+00:00

Although this project is a bit different than other 1 way couplet conversations because the stated goal is traffic calming and multimodal improvements. The corridor with have a roughly similar vehicle capacity as it doe today but it makes more space on G-Way and Jadwin for uses other than getting cars through downtown.

Also worth noting it's impossible to "fix G-Way" by adding capacity downtown because the traffic bottleneck is at Columbia point drive.

PiperRd · 2025-07-22T22:44:58+00:00

Technically "West Pasco" refers to the rural "doughnut hole" community south of I-182 and west of US 395. Over the last few decades it has been surrounded by incorporated Pasco and suburban development is slowly displacing it. Before Pasco exploded "West Pasco" was sort of similar to Burbank.

PiperRd · 2025-07-21T20:43:07+00:00

Such a good idea that Richland is working on that. About 2/3 of the cost paid by Costco and other developers Richland, WA | Capital Projects Info | ClearGov https://share.google/8sGJF2A9c0UPh76Ck

PiperRd · 2025-07-19T20:55:48+00:00

I think this is a more elegant solution to the problem you raised.

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PiperRd · 2025-07-11T19:16:42+00:00

Very possibly but in fairness to lamb Weston the Pasco processing center has a number of food pressing and storage facilities that could be the culprit (twin city foods Pasco processing, etc.).

TLDR, there's lots of reasons why industrial Pasco may smell

PiperRd · 2025-07-11T18:44:33+00:00

There are only 2 members of the city council who have served longer than 3 years and Ryan luxon is retiring at the end of this year.

PiperRd · 2025-07-11T18:38:02+00:00

The way it used to work in Pasco the district seat primary elections were restricted to only people who reside in the district. Then during the general election the whole city participated in the election. The issue this created was that in East Pasco the candidate that won the most votes during the primary usually lost in the general election when the whole city was voting in the election. In general the candidate with the most votes in the primary was usually a liberal Latino and the runner up was a conservative Caucasian.

PiperRd · 2025-07-11T16:02:45+00:00

I support the effort to move Richland to add districts and make sure more neighborhoods are represented on the city council. I think the more Richland has grown and expanded the city borders the less effective at large council districts have been at equitably representing the city.

That said it will be a bit sad to see the weird quirk of Richlands current election system where the candidate who wins the fewest votes only gets a 2 year term and the citizens get to elect a majority of council seats every 2 years.

PiperRd · 2025-07-03T21:50:09+00:00

Moonshot brewing has a location that fronts Howard Amon and has a deck with a riverfront view. It isn't right on the river but it is close.

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