Curious Things We’re Asked to Accept

Clallam County Watchdog · Mar 16, 2026 · 1h 7m

Port Angeles residents may soon be asked to swallow a new public-safety sales tax approved by council instead of voters. A federal “once-in-a-generation” jobs grant is starting to look a lot more like a social-services slush fund. A familiar name from last week’s Agnew standoff comes with a long criminal trail, the county’s harm-reduction contradictions keep getting harder to defend, and even protected farmland near Dungeness is headed for sale. In other words: another week in local government, where the slogans sound noble, the details tell a different story, and taxpayers are left to fund…