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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…

Mike French’s Tax Playbook: Separate the Levies, Raise the Bill, Call It Flexibility

Reminder: Today, October 13, 10:30 a.m. — pack the room. The comprehensive plan public hearing is open for comment in person or virtually; if the next 20 years in Clallam County matter to you, show up and tell the commissioners and DCD Director Bruce Emery that Futurewise gets no veto, that the Cl…

The Health Officer Who Threatened a President

Board of Health Chair Mike French has hammered Jake Seegers over a two-year-old church metaphor. Meanwhile, the health officer French oversees once posted that she would shoot a sitting president in his sleep, fantasized about sterilizing her brother, and mocked patients—yet the Board has refused …

Berry and French’s Harm Reduction Leaves a Body Count on Highway 101

This summer, a Clallam County Sheriff’s deputy followed a frantic man into the dark along the south side of Highway 101 in the “Baker Dip” in east Port Angeles. “Come here and look,” the man said. “Right here.” Two people were down. Neither was breathing. Paramedics arrived, confirmed no pulses, a…

Forks Didn’t Get the Welding Classes. Jamestown Got the Hydroseeder. French Still Calls It 900 Jobs.

Commissioner Mike French sold Clallam County voters a five-year plan to put 900 people into family-wage jobs. The number has already been cut to 603. The coordinator calls even that target extremely ambitious, and the public scoreboard shows roughly 21 people who finished training and later report…

$800K Shortfalls, $350K-Per-Unit Housing, Tribal-Only Cash, and a Bunny Break for County Leaders

Serenity House is covering nearly $800,000 in shortfalls while chasing roughly $12 million for a 36-unit low-barrier permanent supportive housing project in Sequim. Meanwhile, state tax dollars fund tribal-only homeownership, Peninsula Behavioral Health’s North View mirrors Seattle’s housing-first…