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May 9, 2019
Certificated staff deserve recognition
Our Washougal teachers are at the “heart” of this district’s success and we are thankful for their dedication and commitment to our students.
Our Washougal teachers are at the “heart” of this district’s success and we are thankful for their dedication and commitment to our students.
“One of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century is dealing with the progress of the 20th Century — especially old computers, monitors, cellular phones and televisions. These appliances depend on potentially hazardous materials, such as mercury, to operate. After a five-to-eight year useful life, many are tossed into dumpster and sent to landfills where they can leach into the soil and groundwater.”
Providing for the public’s safety and elections that are accurate, transparent accountable and accessible are two of Clark County’s highest priorities. However, because the Washington State Legislature continues to refuse to pay its fair share of election costs, it is increasingly difficult to properly fund these.
Republicans and Democrats in Olympia share many of the same priorities. We want to increase the supply of affordable housing, reform our broken mental health system, combat homelessness, make our schools safer and much more.
Each year Americans throw away more than 3 billion batteries constituting 180,000 tons of hazardous material, and the situation is likely to get much worse as the world shifts to electric vehicles.
To date, Democrats have largely failed to lay out a comprehensive vision of what our immigration policy should be. Some of the announced presidential candidates have, over time, staked out positions on specific issues, such as the status of the Dreamers or the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but they’ve largely left it to President Trump and his allies to set the broader terms of the debate.
March certainly held true to the “in like a lion, out like a lamb” saying this year. With spring flowers popping up all over town and the recent warm weather, it’s hard to believe we were battling snow and ice just a few weeks ago.
Lots is written about students exiting college saddled with hefty student loans; however, the impact on retired parents went largely unnoticed.
2018 was a particularly challenging year for East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR).
Last Sunday evening, a small group of folks from the congregation I pastor — Camas Friends Church — joined me in a prayer vigil across the street from the Patriot Prayer rally in Washougal. We held candles and prayed silently, mourning victims of gun violence. Those present with me believe the rhetoric and rallies of Patriot Prayer put vulnerable and marginalized folks in danger. We hoped our quiet presence might testify to a broader set of concerns than those being expressed across the street — to something even more fundamentally crucial than felt constitutional rights.