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Opinion

June 28, 2018

June Cheers & Jeers

This month’s Cheers & Jeers is coming in a little late, so we have plenty of news to talk about. Let’s kick it off with a few well-deserved CHEERS:

June 21, 2018

We need Upstanders, not Bystanders

Our office recently received an email offer from a company touting itself as having “Trump-friendly editorial cartoons.” Inside was their most recent, depicting a family arriving at the Mexico-United States border and stopping a few feet away with the words: “How to Avoid Being Separated From Your Children at the U.S. Border … Step 1: Stay Away. The End.”

June 14, 2018

Don’t let anti-free press ‘fake news’ campaign taint trust in community news

“Not for a letter to the editor,” was how the email started. The writer didn’t want his views to go out publicly, but did want to let me know that he has lived in Washougal for 43 years and that “local members of the community” believe The Post-Record has “taken on a Vancouver and even a Portland image.”

June 14, 2018

Straw pulp looks like win-win

Here’s a switch: Rather than closing another pulp and paper mill, a new one is under construction right here in Washington.