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Armin-Paulus Hampel, a former journalist and commentator who now is a member of the Bundestag, is ebullient, affable, opinionated, voluble and excellent company at lunch. But because his party is Alternative for Germany, one wonders whether he is representative of it, and whether he is as congenial politically as he is socially.

On the day Donald Trump used the Oval Office to say the nation is in crisis from people trying to enter the United States illegally, he sent a fundraising letter to supporters asking them to give him $500,000 in one day.
This isn’t about border security, which is not a crisis. This is not about a wall. This is about creating fear and anger. It’s about politics. It’s about re-election.
If Trump thought this is a national crisis, he would have done something about it during the two years he has been in office.

Watching the evolution of tech products is always interesting.

The First Order is here, and it means business.

Before we start talking weather, let’s review some rainfall from your friends and neighbors for December.

If we could start over, things would be different.
That is the thought whenever cities begin talking about growth and the inevitably frustrating corollary that is parking. That is the thought now that Vancouver is considering a policy change for developing spaces to accommodate an increasing number of visitors and employees in the city’s core.

Fleischman, Frank Phillip, 89, Washougal, died Jan. 10, 2019. Brown’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 360-834-3692.

Budgets, it has been said, are really value statements, representing the priorities of the people involved. So, as the Legislature convenes Monday for a scheduled 105-day session that will include formation of the state government budget for the next two years, we offer some suggestions for delineating those priorities: