Each year Americans throw away more than 3 billion batteries constituting 180,000 tons of hazardous material, and the situation is likely to get much worse as the world shifts to electric vehicles.
To date, Democrats have largely failed to lay out a comprehensive vision of what our immigration policy should be. Some of the announced presidential candidates have, over time, staked out positions on specific issues, such as the status of the Dreamers or the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but they’ve largely left it to President Trump and his allies to set the broader terms of the debate.
March certainly held true to the “in like a lion, out like a lamb” saying this year. With spring flowers popping up all over town and the recent warm weather, it’s hard to believe we were battling snow and ice just a few weeks ago.
Lots is written about students exiting college saddled with hefty student loans; however, the impact on retired parents went largely unnoticed.
2018 was a particularly challenging year for East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR).
Last Sunday evening, a small group of folks from the congregation I pastor — Camas Friends Church — joined me in a prayer vigil across the street from the Patriot Prayer rally in Washougal. We held candles and prayed silently, mourning victims of gun violence. Those present with me believe the rhetoric and rallies of Patriot Prayer put vulnerable and marginalized folks in danger. We hoped our quiet presence might testify to a broader set of concerns than those being expressed across the street — to something even more fundamentally crucial than felt constitutional rights.
The circumstances leading to Amazon’s decision to scrap its New York City project are trends corporate leaders need to examine closely. There are cultural and political shifts in America which are changing the way business is done.
Leaders in Congress recently reached an agreement with President Trump to temporarily re-open the full federal government. But the threat of another shutdown looms, and the shadow it casts is of concern not only to federal employees but the many who work and partner with federal agencies to protect, steward and preserve the Gorge.
The good news is Washington’s cherry crop is projected to be as good as 2018; however, absent tariff relief from the ongoing United States-China trade tiff, a key market will remain limited.
Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. That’s particularly true in difficult times, when “business as usual” no longer works.
