A new Tri-City nonprofit has formed to push for a faster cleanup at Hanford and transition to energy research and development.Bob Ferguson, Bill Lampson and Gary Petersen established Northwest Energy Associates with the twin missions of advocating for a faster cleanup and for a long-term focus on energy research.Ferguson, former...
Benton County Sustainable Development Manager Adam J. FyallNumber of employees you oversee: 3You have a unique role in Benton County government. What do you oversee and how did your job come to cover such diverse areas?I primarily manage our economic development, natural resources, intergovernmental affairs, Hanford-related and parks functions. While...
Wildfires and wintertime wood fires helped drive Yakima, Spokane and the Seattle area to the top of the nation’s worst cities for air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s 2020 State of Air report.The Tri-Cities was not on the list, but Benton County received a failing grade for air...
Property rights are often considered a “bundle of sticks” where a person can own varying interests in land.The person can own the entire bundle—called “fee simple.”Or a person can own distinct and specific interests in a piece of property. One form of ownership is the ownership of only the oil...
We are learning many painful lessons during the coronavirus shutdown. A key lesson that if a policy isn’t economically sustainable, it isn’t environmentally sustainable. This is a particularly important lesson to remember when considering how to promote recovery of salmon and steelhead populations on the Snake River.Earlier this year, the...
Several federal agencies just released a massive court-ordered federal study (called an Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS) about the Snake and Columbia river dams.If you had other things on your mind last month, that’s more than understandable. Also, you didn’t miss much: the EIS is just another federal study aimed...
For years, Mindi Irvine had the idea of offering a video-type health care service as part of the Oasis Physical Therapy daily routine.But it just never happened, thanks to the busy, day-to-day operations of her five clinics in the Tri-Cities and, most recently, in Walla Walla.“We’d been talking about this...
When your company has been in business for 76 years, you’ve been doing something right.You can expand and thrive during the best of economic times, and you adapt and become more flexible during the rough times.With the coronavirus pandemic hindering almost all business, U.S. Linen and Uniform in Richland is...
Reopening Washington’s economy while fighting the coronavirus will be an incredible challenge, but there is a way forward.We’ll get through this.The path forward requires sober assessment of what we’re up against: A crisis that has put us on a path toward 1 million unemployed, with one in five Washington workers...
The stage is almost set at Kennewick’s Vista Field for builders to install residential and commercial structures.Total Site Services is close to wrapping up construction of roads, utilities, a water feature and decorative streetlamps at the former municipal airfield in central Kennewick, east of Columbia Center.The Richland contractor was able...
