July 14, 2022
We can’t ‘return to normal’ on our own
It is becoming increasingly clear that the federal government’s monthslong push to “return to normal” and get past the COVID-19 pandemic is not working. In March,…
It is becoming increasingly clear that the federal government’s monthslong push to “return to normal” and get past the COVID-19 pandemic is not working. In March,…
“An unusually intense, early season heat wave is gripping areas from Texas to the entire Southwest, including major metro area such as Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Sacramento,” is how one media source explained the “dangerous” heat wave, with temperatures between 100-106°F (Sacramento) and 122°F (Death Valley) that swept over Texas, Arizona and California earlier this month, causing the National Weather Service to issue a high warning for heat-related illnesses.
It has been more than 17 months since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on our United States Capitol — 17 months since someone planted a pipe bomb outside a building containing our then vice-president elect Kamala Harris, the first woman ever elected to the vice presidency; 17 months since people erected a noose and makeshift gallows outside our Capitol and cried for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence; 17 months since someone seemingly removed the panic buttons from a Democratic congresswoman’s office; and 17 months since Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters hurled racial slurs and beat Capitol Police officers on duty that day.
With graduation ceremonies less than two weeks away for Camas-Washougal seniors, our first CHEERS goes out to our local graduates in the class of 2022. This class only had one “normal” year of high school before COVID hit, and then jumped into a world of remote learning, event cancellations, limited in-person communication with their peers and other mitigations meant to rein in our community’s COVID transmission rate. Despite so many upheavals, this class kept pushing forward through each new upheaval. May this resiliency stay with them throughout their adult lives.
It’s strange days for those of us who have tried our best to keep current on the research and public messaging surrounding SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, for more than two years.
There are few issues that draw standing-room-only crowds to local city council meetings, but in the days before the COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on everything even remotely “crowded,” the Camas City Council used to pack the house when officials discussed protecting the city’s tree canopy.
We usually reserve the last editorial of the month for our Cheers & Jeers column, but we’re going to bump that column this month to address a more pressing issue.
A few years ago, a Post-Record reader graciously gifted us several copies of an early 20th century publication produced by the Camas paper mill – a roundup of…
For anyone wondering, “Is it just me or has driving around Southwest Washington become way more stressful over the past few years?” we have some good and bad…
A number of Washington students — including hundreds of students who have protested K-12 mask mandates in Washougal, Ridgefield and Cowlitz County this month — are joining a growing list of people across the globe who are fed up with public health mitigations meant to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
