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February 10, 2022

Camas code changes could prove costly

Perhaps influenced by the ire of community members who consider themselves part of the Dorothy Fox Safety Alliance — a group that has spent the better part of a year demonizing recovering addicts in a quest to prevent a substance abuse treatment center from operating near Dorothy Fox Elementary in Camas’ Prune Hill neighborhood — Camas Planning Commission members have eagerly embraced changes to the city’s code that will severely limit where drug rehabs and sober living homes can operate inside city limits.

February 3, 2022

‘More work to do’ as we celebrate Black History Month

Two months ago, a visiting basketball coach from Portland’s Benson Polytechnic High School — a former pastor, nonprofit leader, father and mentor to the members of his majority-BIPOC girls basketball team — asked Camas School District leaders to pay closer attention to racism and hostility within Camas schools.

December 23, 2021

Give health care ‘heroes’ a gift this holiday season: listen to their cries for help

The message coming from doctors and public health officials this week is loud and clear: The omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is an extremely contagious virus – second only to measles with cases doubling every two to three days – and is threatening to sink our already stressed-beyond-belief health care system.

December 9, 2021

It is past time to come together on gun control

Our nation’s political divide was on stark display this week, following yet another senseless school shooting — the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since 2018 — that stole the lives of four Michigan teenagers and traumatized hundreds of other Oxford High students forced to “run, hide or fight” a 15-year-old attacker armed with a semi-automatic handgun his father had apparently bought for him just a few days before.

November 25, 2021

November Cheers & Jeers

In the spirit of giving thanks and feeling grateful this week, we’re taking a break from bad news and focusing on good-news-only in this month’s Cheers & Jeers column.

November 11, 2021

‘Build Back Better’ to support our veterans

As we pause today, on the national Veterans Day holiday, to honor all American veterans who have served this nation during times of war as well as peacetime, it is worth reflecting on how well we’re treating our veterans once they leave the military and re-enter civilian life.

September 30, 2021

September Cheers & Jeers

We’re happy to kick off this month’s Cheers & Jeers column with a bit of good news. CHEERS to the fact that the cooling rains have returned, bringing some much needed relief to the months-long drought in the Pacific Northwest — the worst in nearly 130 years according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources — and hopefully putting an end to the devastating 2021 wildfire season that saw more than 1 million acres in Oregon and Washington go up in flames by mid-August.

September 16, 2021

Support local farms to help community, environment

In early January 2020, about two months before the COVID-19 pandemic forced all of us into an alternative reality, dozens of Camas-Washougal folks packed a room inside the Port of Camas-Washougal’s headquarters to speak to their state representatives.