CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
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CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
Clarifications on the Recent Column about Google Taxes with Commissioner Scott Hage and Mayor Mayes
The Millennial Perspective, a column by Robin Denning
The Dalles, Ore., Dec. 23, 2025 - When I wrote a column on big institutions, government, utilities, and trillion-dollar corporations, I owed readers two things at once: a clear point of view and clean, verifiable facts.
In my recent column about data centers and public costs, I oversimplified a few details, and while they remain true, it’s not the whole picture. This is the clarification: what was missed, and why the core community question still stands.