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July 1, 2021
War on critical race theory ensures ‘real American racism remains alive and evolving’
“The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie.”
“The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie.”
The Biden administration has made some admirable moves and gestures toward addressing the immense challenges posed by climate-related migration. But it hasn’t adequately educated the American people about the issue, hamstringing its own efforts to advance an ambitious immigration agenda, including the creation of a path to citizenship for the 10.5 million residents who are undocumented.
Once you’ve attended a few high school graduation ceremonies — shout out to the teachers, school administrators and other community newspaper folks out there — the speeches and cheers and caps flying in the air may start to blend together in your memory.
“It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent Associated Press story about the increasingly fire-prone West.
Council should include more affordable homes in future developments
It’s graduation time in Camas and Washougal. Local high school graduates will don caps and gowns this weekend to bid adieu to their K-12 school days and celebrate an exciting…
American history is replete with warnings of impending disaster that went unheeded: Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and, more recently, the climate crisis, COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building.
In Myanmar in early March of this year, people began to attack and vandalize more than two dozen businesses. These rioters helped convince the military government of Myanmar to continue and to escalate the use of brutal crackdowns on all activists, up to and including the use of lethal force that left dozens dead over just one weekend in mid-March.
Currently, the United States spends at least three quarters of a trillion dollars each year on the Pentagon. The U.S. spends more on militarism than the next 10 countries combined; six of whom are allies. This amount excludes other military related spending like nuclear weapons (DOE), Homeland Security, and many other expenditures. Some say the total U.S. military spending is as high as $1.25 trillion/year.
School district’s equity work is ‘imperative in reducing disparities’