Chad Taylor

For decades, the Port of Centralia has pursued a simple mission: create jobs, expand economic opportunity and strengthen our local tax base. That mission is not new. It is not controversial. And it is not a surprise. The industrial development now being proposed in the Fords Prairie area is the result of planning that stretches back decades. The port established its industrial park framework in the 1980s, adopted a master plan in 1990, and has continued refining that vision ever since.

I understand why Gov. Bob Ferguson would lash out at Washington Republican Party Chairman Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen. The Grays Harbor County lawmaker has made it his job to call out Ferguson and the ruling Democrats as the state continues to bleed through a hopelessly bloated budget while passing a series of historic tax increases and gimmicks to “balance the books.” “The Little Guy,” as Walsh has called Ferguson on many occasions, must have let the mixture of truth and taunts get to him.

I understand why Gov. Bob Ferguson would lash out at Washington Republican Party Chairman Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen. The Grays Harbor County lawmaker has made it his job to call out Ferguson and the ruling Democrats as the state continues to bleed through a hopelessly bloated budget while passing a series of historic tax increases and gimmicks to “balance the books.” “The Little Guy,” as Walsh has called Ferguson on many occasions, must have let the mixture of truth and taunts get to him.