# Elected or Appointed ## Posts - [Ferry and WSDOT Losses From the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Counted](https://electedorappointed.com/ferry-and-wsdot-losses-from-the-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-counted/) - [Who Sets Washington Ferry Pay, and How High It Goes](https://electedorappointed.com/who-sets-washington-ferry-pay-and-how-high-it-goes/): Starting points submitted with this question - [Corrections and updates to the West Richland one-minute hearing story, October 2026](https://electedorappointed.com/corrections-and-updates-to-the-west-richland-one-minute-hearing-story-october-2026/): Corrections and updates, October 2026 For “The One-Minute Hearing That Cleared the Way for a West Richland Data Center” (published September 14, 2026) and the research brief behind it. A second research pass, finished October 4, 2026, went back through city packets, signed resolutions, recorded deeds, Ecology files and meeting recordings. Most of the original story held. The items below did not, or have changed since. Each one says what we wrote, what the record shows, and where to check it. The largest change is the first one. Trammell Crow was in West Richland’s official records by April 2026, not September. […] - [The signatures behind West Richland's data center zoning, by person and department](https://electedorappointed.com/the-signatures-behind-west-richlands-data-center-zoning-by-person-and-department/): This brief follows the paper trail behind the zoning and utility decisions that opened part of West Richland's Lewis and Clark Ranch to data centers. It names who signed, moved, seconded and voted at each step, and which city department's name is on each document. It also lists what is still unknown and the records requests that would answer it. No data center application had been filed with the city as of the records checked. Resolution 16-26 says the developer "has not submitted any permit applications," and staff said the same at council meetings in January and April 2026. Starting points […] - [Who Decides Groundwater Use and Contamination Claims Near Data Centers](https://electedorappointed.com/who-decides-groundwater-use-and-contamination-claims-near-data-centers/):   - [Data Center Noise and Their Effects Communities](https://electedorappointed.com/data-center-noise-and-their-effects-communities/):   - [The one-minute hearing that cleared the way for a West Richland data center](https://electedorappointed.com/the-one-minute-hearing-that-cleared-the-way-for-a-west-richland-data-center/): Research date: September 13, 2026. No data center application has been filed with the City of West Richland. What exists is a chain of decisions, every one of them unanimous, that would let a data center be filed and approved on the land Trammell Crow Company bought in July 2026 without another council vote. Two of those decisions were taken with nobody from the public in the room. The third was taken at hearings where the words “data center” appeared in the fine print of a 117-page ordinance but not in the city’s notice, its environmental study, or its staff presentation. […] - [Richland's Queensgate Curbs: How a Traffic Decision Travels From a Petition to Pavement Without a Council Vote](https://electedorappointed.com/richlands-queensgate-curbs-how-a-traffic-decision-travels-from-a-petition-to-pavement-without-a-council-vote/): Starting points submitted with this question ## Pages - [Home](https://electedorappointed.com/): A stretch of road gets narrowed. A permit fee goes up. A school board adopts a curriculum, a state agency writes a rule, a federal office reinterprets a statute that has been on the books for thirty years. Somebody made each of those calls, and in most cases the name is on a document nobody has read. That is the work here. One civic question at a time, from a neighborhood street up to a federal rule, explained along with the people who decided it and how they got the authority. Two Parts to Every Brief The first part is the […] - [Privacy Policy](https://electedorappointed.com/privacy-policy/): Privacy Policy Effective date: September 09, 2026 Elected or Appointed respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected when you use our website, how that information is used, and the choices available to you. Our website address is https://electedorappointed.com. Comments When visitors leave comments, we collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information. This information may be used to identify and prevent spam. An anonymized string created from your email address, known as a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. […] ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/electedorappointed.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)