Gorge agency funding restored

When the Washington House and Senate stripped all funding for the Columbia River Gorge Commission from their proposed budgets during heated negotiations at the end of March, the future looked bleak for the bistate agency. But on Monday, the agency learned that its funding had been restored — or at least some of it.

At the time, many — including Friends of the Gorge and the Clark County Council — urged the Legislature to reconsider and restore the funding.