In her interview with the Post-Record last week, Camas Mayor Shannon Turk said she was willing to shoulder the bulk of people’s anger over the city’s decision to place a $78 million community-aquatics center bond on the Nov. 5 ballot, but added that she doesn’t fully understand people’s ire over the bond.
An open letter to U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.):
Tweet launches write-in campaign for Camas City Council
Too often, elected officials overlook the cumulative costs of regulations, taxes and fees on taxpayers; however, it comes back to bite them hard when people move, or take matters into their own hands by initiative.
Cassi Marshall for Port Commission
As we mark the 79th annual National Newspaper Week this week, many of us who have worked in the newspaper business for a couple decades are feeling more conflicted than ever before.
Camas community center ‘something to build our future around’
Community news journalists are well-versed in the issue of safety planning. We talk about it in relation to natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. We write about it when covering issues related to domestic violence and the hardships people face when confronted with statistics that they are more likely to be murdered by an enraged and unstable romantic partner after they decide to leave. And we talk about it every time there is a mass shooting at a school, movie theater or nightclub.
There’s a lot to celebrate this month, so we’re going to get the bad news out of the way first and then do a deep dive into the good stuff.
The Republicans are on the sidelines on the climate crisis. Government scientists are muzzled. Leading Democrats — though not all — are cautious. CEOs of some of America’s biggest corporations are pledging action while others, like investment firms, fossil fuel companies and Charles Koch’s lobbyists, are downright hostile. And Donald Trump, the world’s leading climate change denier, did not even attend a United Nations (UN) climate summit on Sept. 23, even though he was in the UN building the same day.
