January 30, 2020
OPINION: January Cheers & Jeers
We’re not even to February, but it already seems like 2020 has had more than its fair share of devastating news.
We’re not even to February, but it already seems like 2020 has had more than its fair share of devastating news.
As evidenced at a recent legislative town hall at the Port of Camas-Washougal and in online conversations posted during the November 2019 general election, issues surrounding Camas’ projected growth — including questions about where (and if) that growth should occur — have become a hot topic for longtime locals and newcomers alike.
A front-page story in today’s Post-Record details the troubles one Washougal business has had since a fire ripped through the strip mall it calls home nearly three months ago.
The legislative town hall with Republican lawmakers from the state’s 18th District held Saturday morning inside the Port of Camas-Washougal’s picturesque headquarters had a few moments of drama over vaccines and taxes but was mostly a well-oiled affair covering an impressively diverse range of topics.
New Year’s customs vary widely around the world, but all seem designed to secure the same types of things — luck, love, happiness and good fortune — in the new year.
By the time you’re reading this, the Christmas holiday has already passed, we’re at least five days into the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, so we’ll just wish everyone an early Happy New Year and get straight into our first CHEERS of the month.
It may have been gorgeous weather outside, but inside, politically, October was sort of an ugly month in Camas.
The word “transparency” seems to be getting tossed around quite a bit these days.
Happy Thanksgiving week, readers. We hope you — much like this November Cheers & Jeers column —are bursting with cheers and short on jeers this holiday season.
“It’s too much sometimes. I know we have to talk about it — do something about it — but sometimes all the bad news makes me want to tune it out. It’s really depressing.”
