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Jamestown Gets the Award and Hosts the Dinner. Alaska Has the Backstory.

This Saturday, the Jamestown Tribe will collect a healthcare award at its own resort. The same week, a new Substack author — the Grim Reporter — published the Ketchikan years of Brent Simcosky, CEO of Jamestown Healthcare, who oversees the MAT clinic and Salish Seasons. Read that piece, subscribe,…

The Debt That Never Clears

Port Angeles’ deputy mayor just told council that “respect and decorum” are artifacts of a white male heterosexual society. The commissioner whose campaign she runs says his most important job is building trust with tribes—then steers federal money toward an enterprise that already spends half a m…

Feelings, Convenings, and $9.8 Million

Olympic Community of Health spent a year and a fortune “connecting people so they could thrive,” then published an annual report with almost no jobs, no cost per person, and no hard outcomes. Recompete was sold as a way to close the prime-age employment gap. The paperwork reads like a social-servi…

Boycotts, Ballots, Fees, and the Harm Capsule

This article and podcast were delayed due to a power outage. If you want a snapshot of Clallam County right now, skip the official talking points. Look at the boycott threats, the “voter-approved” fee voters never approved, the homeless-voting flyer that treats ID as optional, and the grant money …

They Are Being Bussed Here

In this Sundays With Seegers, commissioner candidate Jake Seegers addresses a rumor head-on. Everyone has heard the stories: people struggling with addiction and homelessness are being transported to Port Angeles from communities across Washington. Public records show that, at least in the treatme…

French Told Rotary the Quiet Part: Harm Reduction Grew to Feed the Sequim MAT Clinic

At a Sequim Rotary forum, Commissioner Mike French said Clallam County expanded harm reduction after the Jamestown Healing Clinic opened, so the program could “leverage that connection” and send active users to treatment. The county health officer who oversees that program also works at the clinic…

Nobody Requested It. They Are Reading It Anyway.

This morning the commissioners will read an Indigenous Peoples’ Day proclamation that no one requested, and that last year no one showed up to receive. A counter-proclamation sent September 9 is still unanswered. The reading shames the taxpayers who fund it, then clears the ground for the grants a…

Believe Your Eyes

You know Mike French is up for reelection when the paper tells you not to believe your eyes. This week’s potpourri is the gap between the official story and the street: a front report on crime dropping, a backpack taken at gunpoint, a $22-an-hour parking job, and a Colorado judge-threat suspect no…

The Alley Behind the Shop: Why Clallam’s Small Businesses Are Choosing Jake Seegers

Intro by Jeff Tozzer Warning: This article contains graphic images of human waste. Every morning before the doors open at Van Dyke Hardwoods on First Street, someone has to walk the alley. Trash gets scattered. Sleeping bags pile up and get abandoned. Needles turn up. There have been fires started …

Futurewise Does Not “Share a Goal.” It Sues Until the Plan Is Theirs. (Part II)

(Read Part I first: “The Board Wrote Futurewise’s Lawsuit for Them.”) This is the second half of what happened at the Comp Plan hearing. The first half was Jake Seegers warning the Board it had already written Futurewise’s lawsuit for them. This piece is about the activist NGO that sues counties—a…