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Editorials

June 27, 2024

Project 2025 is disaster waiting to happen

An article released this week shows the end result of the decades-long, rightwing misinformation campaign that has targeted the heart of this country and swayed millions of normal, everyday Americans into the belief that people like Donald Trump and his billionaire backers are somehow looking out for the working and middle classes.

May 23, 2024

Realizing nature’s value

Until very recently, if they thought about it at all, most people likely would have assigned a short-term, exploitative value on nature — considering the value of trees…

April 4, 2024

It’s time to move past nostalgia, ban unsafe fireworks in Camas

Though they may hold nostalgia for many Americans, fireworks bans are becoming more common as community leaders better understand the health and environmental dangers associated with these devices filled with gunpowder or highly combustible chemicals.

January 18, 2024

Remembering all of MLK’s dreams

Back-to-back winter storms, power outages and freezing weather may have diverted our attention last weekend, but hopefully many readers also spent time contemplating the life and achievements of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the three-day MLK Day holiday weekend celebrating what would have been the venerated civil rights leader’s 95th birthday.

January 11, 2024

Public health asleep at the wheel during 2nd-highest COVID surge

We never would have imagined four years ago, at the start of the COVID pandemic that we’d be here in January 2024: in the middle of the second-highest COVID surge on record with 78% of states reporting “high” or “very high” levels of COVID, according to nationwide wastewater data.