Having covered towns and cities all over the country as a newspaper reporter, I’m always fascinated by what gets people riled up enough to attend public meetings and open houses.
Post-Record looking like ‘local propaganda arm’ of ‘far left media’
Celebrating Washougal School District’s classified employees
Having been a shy bookworm who grew up in a football-obsessed town just 30 minutes away from Penn State University during its “JoePa” heyday — when legendary coach Joe Paterno led the team to two national championships in 1982 and 1986 — I’ve always had an urge to run in the other direction (preferably straight to the closest library) when confronted by people’s in-your-face enthusiasm for sports.
2018 was a particularly challenging year for East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR).
Last Sunday evening, a small group of folks from the congregation I pastor — Camas Friends Church — joined me in a prayer vigil across the street from the Patriot Prayer rally in Washougal. We held candles and prayed silently, mourning victims of gun violence. Those present with me believe the rhetoric and rallies of Patriot Prayer put vulnerable and marginalized folks in danger. We hoped our quiet presence might testify to a broader set of concerns than those being expressed across the street — to something even more fundamentally crucial than felt constitutional rights.
Thankful for Patriot Prayer coverage
Considering the fact that we’re writing this on a morning when the cold wind whipping in from the Columbia River Gorge forced our editor’s Siberian huskies inside almost immediately after they’d been freed to the snowy backyard, it is appropriate to give our first February Cheers to those who help this area’s most vulnerable find shelter from the storm.
Reader thanks Post-Record for reporting on gun-rights rally
In the week since we published a news article detailing an upcoming “Enforce the Second Amendment” rally at a Washougal gun shop, dozens of people — some local, some writing from places as remote as Kodiak, Alaska — have emailed, called, written letters to the editor and stopped by our office to voice everything from confusion to “disgust” to outright anger over the phrase “far right,” which was used to describe the Patriot Prayer and “Three Percenters” groups heading to Washougal to rally against the state’s new, voter-approved gun-control measures.
