![]() Setting up the new food bank at the former funeral home, in Orting. (Image from Pierce County TV) |
In Orting, they've turned a funeral home into a food bank, which may be a positive metaphor for something. Elsewhere, the region settles down into a post-policy mode as the last-adjourning of its legislature (Washington's) hit the sine die mark last week.
There were other governmental marks - the signing of the last legislation passed in the Oregon session (no vetoes this year for the one-time Dr. No) and the opening of a new east side courthouse building in Multnomah County - but more of the activity seemed to be environmental and cultural. A new study showed electric vehicle use in the region seems to be headed upward. A mountain lion was caught near Pocatello, even as reverberations continue over wolf hunting (or tracking, in the case of OR-7 near Oregon).
But in Oregon and Idaho, primary elections are only weeks away. Expect more politics in next week's editions.
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