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July 20, 2023

Camas officials must temper community’s expectations on pool

If you didn’t know the history of Camas’ public swimming pool — which city officials decommissioned in 2018 after reports showed the 1954 pool was failing and would likely cost millions to restore — and you happened to attend this week’s Camas City Council meeting, you could be forgiven for thinking Camas officials have been shirking their responsibilities when it comes to satisfying their constituents’ thirst for a new public pool.

May 4, 2023

Income tax worries based more on myth than reality

Camas City Council members agreed this week to consider a proposal that the city becomes an “income-tax-free municipality” and asked city staff to collect information and place the item on a future Council workshop agenda.

April 14, 2023

Unfettered access to guns has made all Americans less safe

117,345 — the average number of Americans shot by guns each year. 40,620 — the average number of Americans killed by gun violence each year. 7,957 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger shot by guns each year.1,839 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger killed by guns each year. 547 — the average number of U.S. women killed by gun violence perpetrated by their husband or male dating partner. 132 — the number of mass shootings that have taken place in the U.S. so far this year. 209 — the number of people killed in U.S. mass shootings in 2023.

February 9, 2023

Pandemic offers rare chance to reimagine our shared public spaces

If you’d fallen into a coma in late 2019 and woke up today, you probably wouldn’t guess our country had just experienced its deadliest pandemic or that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that caused COVID-19, killing at least 1.1 million Americans, disabling upwards of 1.2 million more and becoming one of the leading causes of death for our nation’s children is still out there — still infecting, disabling and killing.

January 26, 2023

GOP’s inflation fix promises ring hollow

It’s hard to believe the 2022 midterm elections were less than three months ago. Back then, Republican Congressional candidates across the country were primarily talking about three things: high gas prices, runaway inflation and the border.

January 19, 2023

Full story lacking in ‘Fix Camas’ referendum efforts

There is absolutely nothing wrong with voters wanting to have more control over local government decisions impacting a wide range of constituents. We would guess this reasoning had a lot to do with the decision of more than 3,100 Camas voters to sign on to a recent referendum effort by a group known as the Camas Taxpayers Alliance, which would have given voters a chance to decide the fate of the Camas City Council’s November 2022 decision to impose a temporary 2% tax on the city’s water, sewer, stormwater and garbage utilities.

January 5, 2023

Local newspapers need community support in ’23

Fifty years of Post-Record history will be on full display at the Camas Public Library’s Second Story Gallery beginning Friday, Jan. 5, and running through the end of February.

December 29, 2022

December Cheers & Jeers

Happy New Year to all our loyal Post-Record readers. Here are a few “cheers” to help kick off the New Year’s celebrations this weekend: