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’
Camas school propositions will increase tax collections
If you haven’t watched or heard Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris yet, it’s worth a few minutes of your time.
Vote ‘yes’ on school levies for our community
President Joe Biden frequently calls for “healing the soul of our country.” Lincoln wrote of “binding up the nation’s wounds.” Has the current exposure of our nation’s brokenness revealed an opportunity to give these words new meaning? Can we stop the bloodshed, diagnose symptoms, treat root causes?
The truly violent nature of the Jan. 6 attack on our nation’s Capitol — as well as just how close we came to seeing our elected officials murdered by an angry mob — is just beginning to come to light.
