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July 25, 2019

July Cheers & Jeers calls out litigious developers, praises local helpers

July is always a busy month in Camas, but it seems like this particular July has been packed with evening and weekend events — including the upcoming Camas Days celebration and national motocross races in Washougal, which are expected to bring tens of thousands of visitors into the Camas-Washougal area this weekend.

June 27, 2019

June Cheers & Jeers

Did June seem to sneak up on anyone else — and then pass by in a flash? That’s the way summer goes, we guess. Cheers to 2019 grads: In honor…

June 20, 2019

We must do a better job of recognizing, understanding domestic violence warning signs

In his 2006 report for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, then Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan said violence against women and girls was “a problem of pandemic proportions” with at least one out of every three women having been “beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime” by someone she knew.

May 30, 2019

Cheers & Jeers

With graduation season upon us, this entire Cheers & Jeers editorial could easily be consumed by the dozens of “cheers” we could direct toward the young people in Camas-Washougal who have been collecting local, state and national honors for their athleticism, academics and volunteerism.

May 23, 2019

Both sides should want to ‘stop the bans’

Responding to a slate of restrictive state laws that effectively ban abortion and seek to punish health care providers, Washington’s U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray joined 42 of their Democratic colleagues this week in introducing a resolution for the Senate to affirm a woman’s constitutionally protected right to safe abortion care.