If Tri-City visionaries get their way, we soon could be home to think tanks focused on ways to support the agriculture and energy sectors.That’s welcome news in a region where the two industries help to bolster our economy.Plans to establish an Agricultural Innovation Center were announced at Tri-City Development Council’s...
The Pasco City Council faced a difficult decision in its final meeting of 2022.Should it fund the Downtown Pasco Development Authority, the troubled nonprofit responsible for managing the Pasco Specialty Kitchen, Cinco de Mayo, Fiery Foods Festival and downtown business revitalization efforts?In the end, it said “yes,” voting 5-2 to...
Rain and dark clouds didn’t dampen the enthusiasm at Visit Tri-Cities’ annual luncheon in early November. Organizers rallied around the event’s upbeat theme, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades,” decorating tables with sunglasses, handing out vehicle sun shades and highlighting the reasons why residents and tourists love our...
Kennewick and Richland leaders gathered in the September sunshine to celebrate the start of what should have been a simple street project when they first conceived it back in 2001: connecting Center Parkway across a set of railroad tracks to link the two cities near Columbia Center mall.It only took...
Recent reports about dismal K-12 test scores should raise alarm in our business community.Nationwide, elementary school math and reading scores fell to levels unseen in 32 years, according to the recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, known as the “nation’s report card.”Average scores for 9-year-old students in...
High schoolers with an after-school job will be able to receive credits for their work starting next fall.We agree. They should get credit for their work experience along with their paycheck. Any student who can successfully manage their school coursework and a part-time job is learning valuable life skills – ones...
As press releases go, the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s travel schedule is mundane stuff.Jennifer Granholm, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Energy, traveled to Sydney, Australia, in mid-July.In 2022, she also traveled to Tampa, Florida, to tout the benefits of clean energy, to Michigan (her home state) to announce more than...
The big story in east Pasco lately has been, well, big. Amazon, Darigold, Local Bounti, Reser’s.We are pleased to add homebuilding to the list.In the June edition of the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, we spoke with homebuilders who saw an opportunity in an area that is often overlooked.Homebuilding is...
It’s thrilling to see Pasco residents come together to make big things happen for the community, particularly a project that puts the “family” into “family-friendly.”
Our annual section on the work being done to clean up the Hanford nuclear reservation north of Richland provides updates from the main contractors engineering and doing the work and the regulators tasked with making sure it gets done safely.We also have stories on the massive budget required to clean...
