In Our View: Build Bridge With Oregon — Opinion

The analogy was apt and humorous, distilling the difficulty of getting Washington and Oregon officials to work together on replacing the Interstate 5 Bridge.

As Oregon Sen. Lee Beyer noted, lawmakers in his state feel “a little bit like Charlie Brown” — as in when Lucy would pull the football away as poor ol’ Charlie tried to kick it. At least, that is what Beyer told Columbian reporter Lauren Dake for a recent update about the region’s most pressing transportation problem.

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