SHELTON, Wash. – When the Skokomish River floods, Mark and Laurie Sleeper can watch salmon swimming through their front yard. They move their six kids to drier ground and try to keep their possessions from floating away. In lesser floods, the Sleepers park their car on the side of the highway and wade home. Although […]
Ben Jacklet
Posted inAugust 7, 1995: Fighting fires, and indignities
Washington voters win vote on takings bill
Washington residents will decide at the November polls whether to scrap their state’s new takings law – considered the most extreme take on the subject to date. Volunteers fighting the law, known as Initiative 164, gathered more than 230,000 signatures before the July deadline. That’s more than double the amount needed to force a referendum, […]