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June 17, 2021

Vaccines can help youth get past ‘weathering the storm’

Once you’ve attended a few high school graduation ceremonies — shout out to the teachers, school administrators and other community newspaper folks out there — the speeches and cheers and caps flying in the air may start to blend together in your memory.

June 17, 2021
The Martin Canyon fire outside of Bellevue, Idaho, burns on the Twin Falls BLM District adjacent to the EE-DA-HO Ranch in 2017. (Photo by Jonathon Golden, courtesy of Writers on the Range)

What do we owe wildland firefighters?

“It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent Associated Press story about the increasingly fire-prone West.

June 10, 2021

Saving Democracy in America

American history is replete with warnings of impending disaster that went unheeded: Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and, more recently, the climate crisis, COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building.

June 3, 2021

Why riot when nonviolent protest works far more often?

In Myanmar in early March of this year, people began to attack and vandalize more than two dozen businesses. These rioters helped convince the military government of Myanmar to continue and to escalate the use of brutal crackdowns on all activists, up to and including the use of lethal force that left dozens dead over just one weekend in mid-March.

May 27, 2021

Massive military spending will not solve three greatest threats to our safety and security

Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon. The U.S. spends more on militarism than the next 10 countries combined; six of whom are allies. This amount excludes other military related spending like nuclear weapons (DOE), Homeland Security, and many other expenditures. Some say the total U.S. military spending is as high as $1.25 trillion/year.

May 13, 2021

Letters to the Editor for May 13, 2021

Camas parents angry about masks, equity curriculum urged to ‘gather true facts’ Several parents of Camas students appeared at the School Board Meeting on Monday, May 10. They…