In communities across the State, port districts are working on significant projects that benefit their communities such as expanding broadband service, marina improvements, development of marginal lands into business parks, to name a few.

It is a little-known fact that the Washington Public Port’s Association has a long standing interlocal agreement with the Greater North Pole Port Authority (“GNPPA”).

We were recently asked about the ability of protestors coming to a port district to protest the handling of a certain type of cargo at a port shipping terminal (we don’t know the nature of the cargo). The subject of this month’s column is port districts and use of port property for speech related activities.