July 11, 2019
We cannot look away from abuses on our southern border
On Friday, July 12, thousands will gather in nearly 550 spots across the globe to protest inhumane conditions facing migrants on the United States’ southern border.
On Friday, July 12, thousands will gather in nearly 550 spots across the globe to protest inhumane conditions facing migrants on the United States’ southern border.
Toxic algae blooms have been putting a damper on local summer fun this year — closing popular swimming areas like Vancouver Lake and warning people to keep themselves and their…
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…
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.
We’ve been so caught up in covering “graduation season,” we nearly forgot that it’s also “farmers market season.”
This issue of the Post-Record includes our annual “Grad Tab,” a tribute to the seniors at Camas and Washougal high schools who are preparing to graduate over the next two weeks.
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.
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.
As of this newspaper’s print deadline, there were only two days remaining for candidates to throw their hats into the 2019 elections for city councils, school boards and other local offices.
A summary released this week detailing an exhaustive report on the health and future of our Earth compiled by 500 scientists from 50 countries offers a grim warning: humans are decimating the planet and, if we don’t immediately make “transformative changes” at every level, we risk the extinction of one million animal and plant species as well as an unsustainable future for humankind.
