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When collaboration becomes control
Why is a county commissioner writing the news instead of being questioned by it? Last month, Commissioner Mark Ozias used his Sequim Gazette column to showcase the Dungeness River Management Team—without disclosing that he sits on its executive committee or that the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, his biggest campaign donor, co-chairs the group. While taxpayers fund millions in “collaborative” water programs—including paying farmers not to grow crops—tribal leaders are free to irrigate their own lands during a drought. The press calls it progress. Watchdogs might call it something else.
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