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Commissioners Hike Property Taxes Anyway
Clallam County is raising property taxes again, insisting that growing expenses leave them no choice. Yet the same leadership that won’t send a follow-up letter to the Jamestown Tribe about lost tax revenue has continued to fund nonessential programs—most notably a county poet laureate. In a county struggling with homelessness, addiction, attrition in law enforcement, and shrinking tax rolls, residents are asking: if we can afford a political poet-in-residence, what can’t we afford?
Yesterday, Commissioner Mark Ozias publicly voiced disappointment in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Three…
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