With the local candidate declaration period ending on May 21, we will soon know — save last-minute write-in candidates — who plans to compete for several open positions on Camas-Washougal city councils, school boards and commissions in the August primary and November general elections.
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer. The letter, which she subsequently carried in her wallet, informed her of a new Trump administration memorandum advising essential workers like her that they had a “special responsibility” to maintain their “normal work schedule(s).”
2020 was a year of reckoning in Washington state. As the coronavirus took its toll on the state, from the first confirmed case in January, to the first death in February and beyond, the pandemic exposed the stark realities of the country’s healthcare infrastructure. Even more so, it exposed the risk that out-of-pocket costs can have on the well-being of all Americans. Across the country, COVID-19 forced the issue of surprise bills like never before, as case counts and hospitalizations rose to numbers not before seen.
The school year is ending and the children of the Washougal School District have returned to our classrooms, to each other and to our teachers.
The year 2020 was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic hardship.
Colorado’s elections are a bipartisan success story, so when Major League baseball responded to Georgia’s new voting restrictions by moving the All-Star Game to Denver, it couldn’t have made a better choice.
For anyone even slightly concerned about future generations and what we can do now to protect the environment for our children and grandchildren, it’s hard to avoid being…
The federal government called for a “pause” on injections of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this week after six U.S. women between the ages of 18 and 48 experienced a rare, severe form of blood clotting six to 13 days after receiving their inoculations.
The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has accelerated across the country, including in Washington State, where vaccine eligibility will expand to all Washingtonians over the age of 16 years old on April 15. However, many community members still have questions, need support navigating misinformation, and assistance accessing resources or the vaccine.
“What if the other side collapses while we’re in here?”
