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February 28, 2019

February Cheers & Jeers

Considering the fact that we’re writing this on a morning when the cold wind whipping in from the Columbia River Gorge forced our editor’s Siberian huskies inside almost immediately after they’d been freed to the snowy backyard, it is appropriate to give our first February Cheers to those who help this area’s most vulnerable find shelter from the storm.

February 21, 2019

We didn’t start the ‘far right’ fire

In the week since we published a news article detailing an upcoming “Enforce the Second Amendment” rally at a Washougal gun shop, dozens of people — some local, some writing from places as remote as Kodiak, Alaska — have emailed, called, written letters to the editor and stopped by our office to voice everything from confusion to “disgust” to outright anger over the phrase “far right,” which was used to describe the Patriot Prayer and “Three Percenters” groups heading to Washougal to rally against the state’s new, voter-approved gun-control measures.

February 14, 2019

With waterfront development on horizon, community should weigh in

With four development firms interested in exploring the commercial possibilities contained in 26 acres of waterfront between the cities of Camas and Washougal, now is the time for community members to think about what they would like to see happen on the former Hambleton Lumber Company property off South Second Street near the popular Washougal Waterfront Park and Trail.

January 10, 2019

Reopen government without giving in to tyrannical demands

If it persists into the upcoming weekend — and since the president has threatened to keep it going for months or even years if he doesn’t get his way, there’s a good chance it will — the federal government shutdown will be the longest in United States history.