It’s been 16 years since I celebrated my first Mother’s Day as a mom. My daughter had been born — in our living room, across from the Pacific Ocean on the central Oregon coast — just two days prior.
The inclusion of several Washougal parcels in Governor Jay Inslee’s Opportunity Zone designations is a piece of positive economic news for a town that often struggles to keep up with other Clark County areas in the post-Recession era.
At a legislative town hall held in Camas last Saturday morning, Republican Sen. Ann Rivers said something that seemed to resonate with many people in the room: The issue of opioid addiction is a bipartisan issue because, as Rivers noted, “there is no one in the Legislature who doesn’t have a close friend, family member or someone they know who has been impacted by this.”
It’s spring. The sun came out this week. After a decade of trying his very best to decimate the middle class and kick poor folks in the teeth, House Speaker Paul Ryan is retiring at the ripe old age of 40-something. And campaign season is going to shift into high gear pretty soon.
In reporting the bullying story published on page A1 of this week’s Post-Record, a statement from one of the reporting adults stood out.
Efforts are underway in Camas and Washougal to determine if the cities’ current “strong mayor” form of government is the best path to follow.
On March 14, one month after a teenager armed with a semiautomatic weapon slaughtered 14 students and three adults inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, thousands of students from more than 3,000 schools joined the youth-led National School Walkout and pushed for immediate and meaningful gun control.
The National School Walkout is happening as this paper goes to print, so we’ll kick off our March Cheers & Jeers with a giant CHEERS to all the students who participated in the 17-minute walkout to remember the Parkland, Florida school shooting victims and to push for sane gun control measures.
As the student-led #NeverAgain gun-control movement continues to build momentum — causing companies to sever public ties with the National Rifle Association and politicians to, hopefully, rethink their slavish support of the gun manufacturing lobby over the majority of Americans who support common sense gun control — we are reminded of another, pre-Internet movement that encouraged the world to “Never Forget.”
There was a question floating around the Twittersphere recently, which asked parents to chime in on what they might do if their teenager “disrespected a member of the U.S. Senate on television.”
