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Opinion

June 9, 2022

Do we want chaos or community?

Fifty-five years ago this month, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” In it, he described the turmoil then engulfing American cities as representing a new phase in the struggle for freedom: as a shift from a primary focus on dismantling Southern apartheid to a broader grappling with racism and economic inequality nationwide. Extending his analysis globally, Dr. King called for an end to the madness of the Vietnam War, for an eradication of global poverty, and for a recognition of nonviolence as the only sane path forward.

June 2, 2022

May Cheers & Jeers

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.

June 2, 2022

Manufacturers back to building inventory

Before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world, factory workers were humming along, assembling products just after components were delivered. It was called “just-in-time” production. It was efficient, predictable and cost-effective.

May 19, 2022

Plenty of food, but not for farmworkers

On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully cooled from the heat of the day before.

May 12, 2022

Camas must do more to protect its established, ‘heritage’ trees

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.