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.
When David King joined Fern Prairie United Methodist Church in Camas as head pastor in July 2018, the church was in the midst of a transition period.
Our Washougal teachers are at the “heart” of this district’s success and we are thankful for their dedication and commitment to our students.
“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 potentially hazardous materials, such as mercury, to operate. After a five-to-eight year useful life, many are tossed into dumpster and sent to landfills where they can leach into the soil and groundwater.”
A summary released this week detailing an exhaustive report on the health and future of our Earth compiled by 500 scientists from 50 countries offers a grim warning: humans are decimating the planet and, if we don’t immediately make “transformative changes” at every level, we risk the extinction of one million animal and plant species as well as an unsustainable future for humankind.
