In 2001, David Barnett bought 69 acres just west of La Center’s interstate junction. The Longview-based tribe has since applied for that land to become their first reservation, the site of a proposed $510 million casino complex. Until last year ...

“There’s an expression our president likes to use: `If there’s a turtle on a fence post, it didn’t get there by itself.’” -Washington State University’s Larry Ganders, making a budget presentation to a House committee this morning ...