County engineer Storey attends D.C. meetings as representative of 11 states

Whitman County engineer Mark Storey went to Washington, D.C., earlier this month representing 11 western states, as one of nine executives for the National Association of County Engineers (NACE).

Storey was elected to the position last April.

In Washington, D.C., Feb. 27 to March 4, he and the eight other representatives from across the country met with a series of congressional staffs and federal departments including the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure committee led by Peter Defazio of Oregon and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

"It was very good, actually," Storey said. "A lo...