Comments on: Opinion: ‘The IBR team has been lying to us and thanks to a veteran Oregon journalist, we have the smoking gun’

By: Brad Coad

Brad Coad — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:10:28 +0000

OMG, do you think it’s going to get any less expensive if we keep kicking the can down the road on this project? This is going to be an absolute disaster if something happens to this old bridge we are trying to replace and all we have is the Glenn Jackson to cross the Columbia river. Not just for the locals, but for the entire region’s commerce. This is interstate I 5 we are talking about folks. A major north south interstate. Do I think we need a third bridge, YES! But we also need the I 5 bridge replaced its old. Are we going to throw all this work people have put into this project in the trash can now and start over? My God this is all so crazy. I say lets get this project done while at the same time start planning for a 3rd bridge!

By: David Kay

David Kay — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:16:12 +0000

Fraud in WA and OR with taxpayer money??? I just left Vancouver for Minnesota. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:11:21 +0000

After looking at these figures, the fraud in Minnesota as difficult to digest as they are, is looking rather moderate in comparison.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:18:56 +0000

In reply to philip johnson.

Philip, oh Philip… still barking up that tree? As if it’ll make any difference?

John Ley is likely one of the MOST INFORMED persons when it comes to the IBR.

I’m sorry you cannot accept facts, but John and Ken Vance have consistently provided verifiable facts whenever writing about the IBR.

This editorial, I hope, will start the death-knell for the current IBR plans. After all, Greg bailed when he had the chance; others need to take heed and do the same.

By: philip johnson

philip johnson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:13:07 +0000

“I am outraged,” Ley said. “They have the tools to provide us cost updates monthly if they wanted to — it’s insanity that they don’t.”

Says the man who lied to the 18th district over his election fraud allegations, until admitting to them in February of last year.

Playing soon Rep. John Ley in Casablanca.

By: Dean P. Zarosinski PE

Dean P. Zarosinski PE — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:06:44 +0000

250 Million on the first go-round as told to me by the WashDOT Local director the morning after the Coast Guard turned down thi initial Plan in 2013