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Articles from the December 16, 2022 edition


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  • Expanded Panama Canal Challenges Washington Ports

    Don C. Brunell|Updated Dec 29, 2022

    The $5.4 billion expansion of the Panama Canal is paying off for East Coast and Gulf of Mexico seaports. It is putting pressure on the Pacific Ocean-based terminals to be more competitive. The enlarged waterway opened in June 2016 allowing much larger container ships to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ships carrying up to 14,800 containers can now bypass Washington and other West Coast docks and deliver containers directly to cities from Houston to New York....

  • A few things

    Dale Anderson|Updated Dec 29, 2022

    I have a few things to talk about today so bear with me. A couple of days ago I was driving on the freeway where doesn’t really matter. Anyway I was in the left lane and there were cars coming off the exit into the right lane. I needed to be in the right lane so I speeded up and at the right time I moved over. The car that I moved in front of decided to get into the left lane and would sling shot into that lane. As he moved passed me I noticed that the passenger side of t...

  • Wolf Advisory Group holds meeting in Spokane Valley

    Teren Kowatsch, Franklin Connection|Updated Dec 29, 2022

    SPOKANE VALLEY -- The state Department of Fish and Wildlife released its Monthly Wolf Report for November on Dec. 12. Included in the report was a meeting held by the Wolf Advisory Group (WAG) in Spokane Valley from Nov. 2-3 that also included staff members of the WDFW. Action items on the docket for discussion were both proposed by the WDFW. The first action items were topics that included: distribute wolf management plan, people and wolves in Washington, and topics table to new WAG members. Part of the action item was discu...