March 4, 2021
Camas’ lack of affordable housing hurts the whole community
Camas city staff and consultants have spent the better part of a year working on what will eventually become the city’s Housing Action Plan.
Camas city staff and consultants have spent the better part of a year working on what will eventually become the city’s Housing Action Plan.
When I was a young man growing up in rural Oregon, there was a term for people like me: “gun nut.”
Feb. 19 marked the day the United States of America officially rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and is back in the global fight against climate chaos, which is inevitable if we follow business as usual, now termed RCP (representative concentration pathway) 8.5.
Back in February 2020, we were hearing some rumblings of a disease that had started in China, was coming across Europe and had entered into the United States. We were told that it was highly contagious, but the case numbers were still low. Things changed swiftly when it appeared Seattle was one of the major places where people were being exposed.
Why would any company spend $5.5 million for a 30-second Super Bowl ad which leaves viewers perplexed as some glitzy and abstract commercials did? After production costs are tacked on, you’d think advertisers would want their messages clearly understood especially in difficult times.
There is good news this week for Camas schools and families who have flocked to this area so their children might attend one of the best school districts in the region — with about 20 percent of ballots still left to count, Camas School District voters are passing two replacement levies that represent nearly 20 percent of the district’s budget.
The email came into the Downtown Camas Association’s inbox at the start of the new year: “I’m writing because in recent weeks we have…
Much has been made recently of the concept of the “Big Lie,” or repeating a falsehood so many times that it becomes plausible to many. Cognitive psychologists refer to this phenomenon as the “illusory truth effect,” and President Joe Biden weighed in on the phenomenon himself when condemning senators who supported Donald Trump’s assertion that he (Trump) won the 2020 election by a landslide. Biden declared, “You keep repeating the lie … the degree to which it becomes corrosive is in direct proportion to the number of people who say it.”
Camas: ‘a place we’re proud to call home’
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