Earlier this year, I accepted an invitation by Chamber President and CEO Stefan Goldby to serve as an at-large member of the Governmental Affairs Committee formed this spring. The decision to get involved was an obvious one. As Housing Resources Bainbridge (HRB) public policy specialist, …
How Commissioners, County + Citizens Work Together To Move The County Forward Kitsap County faces important decisions in the coming years, decisions about land use and population growth, development and infrastructure, and who its next leaders will be. As part of our Government 101 series, …
District 1 Vacancy Renews Interest In County’s Top Jobs Local politics are getting a good dust-off post-pandemic and whether you’ve been here your whole life, or you moved here last week, you’re bound to feel the impact as Kitsap County faces important decisions about its …
UPDATE: 12/07/21: After reviewing documents from the state’s Redistricting Commission, the WA Supreme Court accepted its work, even though parts of it weren’t actually finished on time. That means the commissioners’ agreed-upon redistricting maps (which the commission released a day after the Nov. 15 deadline) …
The Kitsap Public Health Board is agreed about one thing – we are in the middle of a serious public health crisis. But they are far from agreed when it comes to what to do about it. At Tuesday September 28th’s special meeting of three …
With the initial 2020 Census numbers in the book, the time has come for the State to consider changing the borders of Washington’s legislative and Congressional districts. While the placement of Bainbridge Island is unchanged in proposed Congressional Maps of the four-person Washington State Redistricting …
Over the first year of the pandemic most health insurance companies voluntarily waived the cost of co-pay and deductible payments for COVID patients, largely because they expected the Federal Government to eventually require them to do so. However, that never actually happened, and so, now …
As a nice follow-up to last week’s demographic data for Kitsap County in the new US Census of 2020, the County is now accepting comments on the latest draft of the Kitsap County Buildable Lands Report. For local residents, the Report contains two kinds of …
After a full decade of preparations and a system that offered online, offline, phone line and in-person data collection, the preliminary data from the 2020 Census is in. The numbers already shine some interesting light on Bainbridge Island, especially in the context of Kitsap County …
The City of Bainbridge Island’s portion of the recently-passed American Rescue Plan Act funding is currently projected to be around $5.3 million, taking COBI’s total recovery funding past the $6.6 million mark, according to figures recently published by the Washington Research Council. In addition, Kitsap …