May 10, 2018
Letters to the Editor for May 10, 2018
Hard to see any good in Camas mill slowdown
Hard to see any good in Camas mill slowdown
They were not making it easy. They could have landed on a low, dangling branch. I have a lot of those in my yard. But they landed on four old, decaying fence boards. I “guesstimated” they numbered over 30,000 — a fine spring swarm of beautiful, amber-colored honeybees.
The inclusion of several Washougal parcels in Governor Jay Inslee’s Opportunity Zone designations is a piece of positive economic news for a town that often struggles to keep up with other Clark County areas in the post-Recession era.
Reader backs McDevitt for 3rd District
Long would make ‘great replacement’ for 3rd Congressional District
At a legislative town hall held in Camas last Saturday morning, Republican Sen. Ann Rivers said something that seemed to resonate with many people in the room: The issue of opioid addiction is a bipartisan issue because, as Rivers noted, “there is no one in the Legislature who doesn’t have a close friend, family member or someone they know who has been impacted by this.”
Any trade war between the United States and China is worrisome, but if it escalated and tariffs are imposed, it will hit Washington particularly hard. Avoiding that possibility should be our primary goal.
Understanding the Second Amendment
It’s spring. The sun came out this week. After a decade of trying his very best to decimate the middle class and kick poor folks in the teeth, House Speaker Paul Ryan is retiring at the ripe old age of 40-something. And campaign season is going to shift into high gear pretty soon.
As we deal with our population growth, we must address sufficient supplies of drinkable fresh water for residential, commercial, agriculture, fisheries and industrial needs.
