June 6, 2019
Letters to the Editor for June 6, 2019
More work to be done for children in poverty
More work to be done for children in poverty
Last January, Boeing was poised for another record year. The company’s order book burst at the seams. Things seem to be going Boeing’s way.
On April 21, 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened. The “Century 21 Exhibition” ran for six months, drew 11 million visitors, turned a profit and left the Northwest with a wonderful Seattle Center.
Congresswoman’s bipartisan bill helps families, children
With graduation season upon us, this entire Cheers & Jeers editorial could easily be consumed by the dozens of “cheers” we could direct toward the young people in Camas-Washougal who have been collecting local, state and national honors for their athleticism, academics and volunteerism.
With the dust settling from the 2019 legislative session, the focus is assessing the impacts on taxpayers and our economy.
Responding to a slate of restrictive state laws that effectively ban abortion and seek to punish health care providers, Washington’s U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray joined 42 of their Democratic colleagues this week in introducing a resolution for the Senate to affirm a woman’s constitutionally protected right to safe abortion care.
Appreciate Battle Ground’s position on firearms law
This year marks the 49th anniversary of the first Earth Day. This comes 50 years after the Santa Barbara, California, oil spills, which were instrumental in the declaration of the first Earth Day. The fate of our planet remains threatened by two inextricably connected threats, that of climate change and nuclear war. We cannot pretend to be concerned about our environment if we are not simultaneously concerned about the destruction of the planet by nuclear war.
As of this newspaper’s print deadline, there were only two days remaining for candidates to throw their hats into the 2019 elections for city councils, school boards and other local offices.
