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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.

February 9, 2023
A view from a valley in northern Colorado. (Contributed photo courtesy of Richard Knight)

The West is an exploiter’s paradise

High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some of my neighbors hear that the house will be as big as 15,000 square feet. Others say it will take three years to complete. Whether that is valley gossip or truth, the house is now the center of everybody’s attention.

February 2, 2023

Letters to the Editor for Feb. 2, 2023

‘Vote yes’ to Washougal School District replacement levies on Feb. 14 ballot As a parent, volunteer, and longtime supporter of our Washougal Schools, I encourage everyone to vote…

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 26, 2023

Banning books is for bullies

Some people have become so alarmed by what children might read in school or in libraries that they want books they don’t like removed — immediately. The targeted books include scenes of sexual awakening, gender identity, racism or violence.

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 12, 2023

They never tire of abusing Dr. King

During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-Texas), who voted against the anti-lynching act last March, had the immoral temerity to quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He did so as he explained how he was positioning himself to the hardliner right of rightwing Kevin McCarthy (R-California).