Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: In our few forays into the Greater Cathlamet Metropolitan Area during Covid Incarceration, we’ve been heartened to see the town proceeding with pleasant equanimity highlighted by cheerful professionalism by our grocery store and drug store. However, there is a disaster in progress just across the river. Usually, Oregon provides us with political comic relief, having a bureaucracy more clumsy and a governor even more incompetent than our own, but this has more tragic potential. Federal financial relief has finally arrived, but is b...
To The Eagle: I can appreciate Sen. Ron Johnson’s ( R-Wis.) commentary on keeping a little perspective during this pandemic. He said "every premature death is a tragedy, but death is an unavoidable part of life. More than 2.8 million die each year — nearly 7,700 a day. The 2017-18 flu season was exceptionally bad, with 61,000 deaths attributed to it. Can you imagine the panic if those mortality statistics were attributed to a new virus and reported nonstop?" Like now. Incessant media yammering about local, national and global pandemic infection...
To The Eagle: I feel comfortable speaking for all of us here in Wahkiakum County when I say thank you so much to all of our neighbors that are at work keeping the stores, gas stations and other businesses open. A thank you is really not enough but I know we all truly appreciate and respect what our police, firemen and ambulance crews are doing every day. I would like to point out something we seem to forget: How important every working person is and how much respect they deserve for what they do every hour and day of the year. You shouldn't...
To The Eagle: The March 26 Eagle showed the recently passed SB6561 which provides a student ‘loan’ program for illegals. I say free because 44 percent of loans given to legal American citizens go unpaid. What’s the chance those given to illegal aliens will ever get paid? This is at a time when this same legislature has been in violation of Article 9, Section 1 of the WA State Constitution which mandates that the legislature pay for school construction, maintenance, and salaries. The legislature has been fined $100,000 per day since 2015 for b...
So, we're in Week 2 of the covid-19 virus quarantine. School was out and is now back in session, but no students are at school. Non-essential businesses have closed; the governor's office issued a 14-page document for guidelines on deciding who is essential or not. Newspapers and other communication businesses are considered essential, and we continue to publish The Eagle. Like other businesses, we'll keep going till the money is gone, I say, somewhat facetiously. Like many, we're seeing an immediate drop in business. Like others, we bleach...
To The Eagle: Hmm, right to life? For who? A small cluster of cells that may at some point become a person unless the mother has a miscarriage, or a living breathing senior citizen? The low watt governor of Texas is willing to throw seniors under the bus to maintain the economy. Sweet. The dichotomy is striking in its duplicity. Here's a great idea. Why doesn't this religious nut throw his mom, dad or himself under the bus sparing the economy for those of us with more than two brain cells frantically trying to justify the stupidity he sees in...
To The Eagle: No response from the challenger in the Climate Change Calamity debate, so we’ll give it a rest for awhile, after pointing out that the people producing pandemic panic are using the same tactics that the enviro crowd uses to produce doom and gloom scenarios about global warming: computer modeling, which is very much subject to GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out). Based on supposition rather than hard data the dire predictions never come true, so enviros avoid embarrassment by moving their melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and burning...
To The Eagle: Many of us have used credit cards to spend thousands to make our homes beautiful and our many appliances easy to use. We spent many hours working away from home to pay for our “stuff.” Now we have a chance to stay home and delight in our credit-card purchases, tackle home-improvement projects, read books, and enjoy (or not) each other’s company. I see no need to whine about having to stay home! Ursula Petralia Skamokawa...
To The Eagle: Many of our local businesses and their employees are facing a significant financial impact dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. While several local businesses have been required to close under new restrictions, others have been able to offer modified services that help reduce the spread of viruses, so they can continue to provide their services to our small community. Some of our local restaurants and stores are offering online ordering and carry-out services, so you can get what you need without ever leaving your car. You can...
To The Eagle: The biggest slush fund in history is now at the disposal of the Treasury and Grifter-In-Chief, Trump. Our rapaciously greedy Chief Executive will unleash unprecedented fraud and abuse upon the new $2.2 trillion law — the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after purposely weakening its accounting oversight. In an astonishingly brazen move, Trump wiped away, by imperial decree, safeguards written into the act in order to ignore and subvert the intent and letter of the law. The president clearly wants to c...
To The Eagle: We have been ‘contained’ to home now for three weeks. Fortunately we didn’t need TP before fanatics bought it all up, plus, I have many issues of The Eagle in case. We are so blessed to live with space around us. I can hardly imagine the difficulties of all the families cooped up in small apartments in the city, even the homes there with little or no yard. I pray for those people, especially the ones who may have shaky relationships or mental problems, that may they all survive this epidemic. Fortunately our president may final...
To The Eagle: By now, you have most likely received a postcard or letter in your mailbox inviting you to participate in the 2020 Census. Set forth as an effort to count everyone in the U.S., the data collected as part of the census impacts everyone who is, or is not, counted. Before your mailer filters to the bottom of your to-do stack, take a moment to recognize why completing the census is so important, especially for residents of rural communities and states. At its most basic level, data collected through the census ensures equal representa...
To The Eagle: Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky dropped the ball this weekend. As the economy spiraled downward, McConnell, Senate majority leader, produced a badly flawed pandemic relief bill that would provide a lot of help for corporate executives and shareholders, and not nearly enough for American workers. It would let the Treasury Department hand out hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations without requiring a binding commitment to preserve jobs and wages. To take just one example, the bill would let the Treasury bail out hotels...
Dear Wahkiakum County Community: We at the sheriff's office are taking every precaution necessary to keep our staff healthy so that we can continue to provide the maximum level of public safety services to you. With that, you know how devastating it would be if even one of us contracted the virus and easily, possibly without detection, spread it throughout our office or the community. It could cripple our public safety services in every way, and so I have had to take extra measures to ensure we all stay healthy as much as we can. This includes...
Socialism is the goal of enviro mob To The Eagle: Three weeks and three letters into the Great Climate Change Calamity debate, we have yet to hear from the debate’s instigator (perp?) Dennis Gordon, though we have heard from a couple of others on closely related subjects: James Roberts on the success of socialism and J.B. Bouchard on the glories of regulation and the EPA. Significant because socialism is the goal of the enviro mob, and the EPA has acted as the artillery division in the weaponization of the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species l...
To The Eagle: Our country has been at war for almost 20 years (Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, etc.) but few of us noticed or cared because credit was free-flowing, there were no shortages, and the stock market was booming. Now we are deeply concerned with the war against the covid-19 virus because it affects us personally: We encounter some shortages, the sorcerer Trump’s emblem - the stock market – is being eviscerated, and workers are losing their jobs. Our response: Fear, hoarding, whining, and a demand for government bail-outs even by cit...
To The Eagle: We all are new to a situation such as this Coronavirus problem so aside from the hand washing, social distancing and the like there are other things to consider and do. We have a community to care for and protect.By this I mean each other and our local businesses so when this is, and it will be over, our home town must be as it was or even better still. If you can help a neighbor then you should share what you can, be it food or money or just a kind word that will make their day better. Oh and yours too. Now the best way to help l...
To The Eagle: Somewhere between a week or two ago I was contemplating doing a house to house survey of my East Sunny Sands neighbors. As fate has brought us to consider self quarantine it seems best not to go door to door. I am hopeful The Eagle will allow us to express how we feel about dredge spoils being placed on land inside the dike. The window of opportunity for having this discussion appears to be growing very short so I hope to see a large and prompt participation. This discussion does not need to be limited to East Sunny Sands...
To The Eagle: We are headed off to battle. It’s the beginning of a war against the virus. And much like wars we’ve fought in the past, each person has a part to play in this one. It is going to take sacrifice on the part of everyone. Is it fair? No. But it’s the reality we’ve been dealt. Social distancing is the key to slowing a virus enough that maybe, just maybe, the health system might be able to keep up with it. Nobody wants to give up getting together with others. But by doing this, we are helping not only ourselves, but others. Remembe...
To The Eagle: For our next foray into the Climate Change Calamity we have to take a page or two from Chemistry 101. Our atmosphere is comprised of nitrogen 78 percent, oxygen 21 percent, and “other gases” 1 percent. The other gases include carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, water vapor, helium, hydrogen, and argon. Since these other gases are rattling around inside that last one percent, their presence is reported in ppm’s or parts per million, which provides larger scarier numbers to produce public panic. Since 1960, the ppm’s of CO2 have in...
To The Eagle: Beginning on Tuesday, March 17, the Cathlamet Public Library will be closed until further notice. We have taken this difficult step out of concern for the health for our community, patrons, and volunteers. Evidence is compelling that limiting social contacts can help reduce the potential for the Coronavirus/COVID-19 to spread throughout our community. Libraries by nature provide publically shared materials and spaces. If we can in any way restore services at some level, we will share this welcome news as soon and as widely as...
To The Eagle: This might be the shortest letter ever. Fantastic, tremendous, really great...sure. Peace, James Roberts Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: Starting to look like wash and repeat yet again. Just like 2016 when the DNC basically threw Bernie under the bus even though he had huge crowds at his rallies and quite possibly would have prevailed in the general. I'm beginning to not only think it but am ever more convinced that the DNC would rather see Trump in than Bernie. After all, the RNC and the DNC are both feeding from the same trough and every few years shoulder each other out of the way for their turn. Even though nearly every country on earth has single payer health...
To The Eagle: Here’s Chapter 2 concerning Gordon’s Climate Change Calamity, focusing on his specious supposition that we need more fuel economy restrictions in place: When you stomp on the gas in a conventional car, gasoline travels a few feet to the engine where it ignites, expands, and cranks the wheels around. The fuel for your shiny new electric car comes from a distant power source run wholly or partially by coal or natural gas and piped through many miles of wire, attenuating (shrinking) all the way, to be stored in the car’s ineff...
To The Eagle: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created by the Nixon administration in 1970 to coordinate the welter of confusing, often ineffective environmental protection laws enacted by states and communities. The Clean Water ACT of the EPA sets and enforces national water pollution-control standards to protect the viability and purity of our nation’s rivers and lakes. The Clean Water RULE of 1972 expanded that mandate to include smaller streams, wetlands and seasonal riparian catchments; dry areas that become wetlands during r...
