December 10, 2020
Letters to Editor for Dec. 10, 2020
County councilors refuse facts that don’t match worldviews
County councilors refuse facts that don’t match worldviews
By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The West, with its thousands of federal, state and local fire engines and crews, had been tapped out.
If there is one thing we can all agree on this holiday season, it is that we must protect the independent, locally owned small businesses that make the Camas-Washougal area a desirable place to live, work and visit.
“One of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century is dealing with the progress of the 20th Century — especially old computers, monitors, cellular phones and televisions. These appliances depend on hazardous materials, such as mercury, to operate. After a 5- to 8-year useful life, many are tossed into dumpsters and sent to landfills where those hazardous materials can leach into the soil, streams and groundwater.”
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and public health officials urging all of us to cancel dinner plans with anyone not included in our immediate households, Thanksgiving is going to feel abnormal for a lot of families this year.
Where is the ‘public’ in Skamania Public Utility District?
In a year filled with unforeseen challenges and important decisions, people with Medicare have through Monday, Dec. 7, to select their Medicare Advantage or Prescription Drug Plan coverage for 2021.
And now . . . what?
It seems unreal — not to mention unfair to small business owners trying their best to keep the doors open during this global pandemic — to think it was only six weeks ago that Gov. Jay Inslee loosened COVID-19 restrictions across the state, reopening movie theaters and libraries, allowing more people to dine indoors at restaurants and letting real estate agents resume in-person open houses.
The presidential election is over, but the country — and even our own small piece of Southwest Washington — is still very much a house divided.
