Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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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...
To The Eagle: The Wahkiakum Blooms are ready for a new planting season. Our goal is to improve the quality of life in Wahkiakum County by making the place we call home, a more beautiful place to live, and visit. Skamokawa Gardens is currently growing red and white plants for the large blue pots on Main Street and other businesses in Wahkiakum County. We will be adding hanging baskets as well this year to add to the beauty of our town. A huge thank you to the following businesses and citizens who sponsored a blue pot for the 2019 season:...
Human services addresses COVID-19 To The Eagle: Citizens of Wahkiakum County: Don’t Panic. Please practice prevention and preparedness. This weekend was an eventful one for public health. On Thursday of last week there was one confirmed case in Washington of COVID-19. As of Tuesday, this week, there are 18 confirmed cases and unfortunately, six fatalities in the State. COVID-19 is colloquially being referred to as Coronavirus or the Wuhan virus. There is a significant amount of misinformation and uninformed opinion making going on n...
Let’s keep the debate within these pages To The Eagle: After Dennis Gordon’s serial stentorian stipulations for a debate, let the contestation commence with the caveat that it be here in The Eagle, for more public participation, and also to keep us physically out of the public square, safe from the coronavirus, the latest pestilence unleashed by the dastardly Trump. Further allure to debate is the fact that so many of the assertions in his challenge are so eminently debatable if not downright dubious. We alleged deniers acknowledge that the...
This area needs jobs To The Eagle: A couple of weeks ago I wrote to The Eagle that Wahkiakum School District should bus our kids to Longview and eschew a new 28 million dollar high school. While my two sons, who went through WHS earlier in the 2000's, might have benefitted attending a more resourced school, I wouldn't have liked having to bus to Longview either. The proposal was defeated and I'm glad. Even though the civics and economics lesson given by one of the town councilmen was appreciated, the proposed levy was a shock. The majority of...
To The Eagle: There is something terribly wrong in Washington DC. Namely the Senate, Congress and the White House. Partisanship, I don’t think, has ever been this horrible; could I be wrong? The head of our country’s security comes to Congress to let them know what is going on, and then Trump’s snitch, Nunes, runs to the White House (again), and tells that a report not favorable to Russia and Putin was given. That in turn creates a Trump tantrum, and he immediately fires the head of intelligence, then installing a temporary (among many temps...
To The Eagle: There remain quiet heroes in our midst whom we must not overlook in the current era of loud-mouthed bluster and blather spewing across our country. I’m referring to two local women, both of whom, voluntarily and without calling attention to themselves, quarantined themselves for two weeks in their homes after a potential exposure to the Corona virus. Their actions, rather than the bombastic imbecility that has infected our land, reflect true patriotism and may make Americans rightly proud again! Thank you, ladies for quietly p...
To The Eagle: If you’re thinking that having the federal government guarantee coverage to all Americans is a big deal, it’s actually not. The government already pays for about two-thirds of health care costs. Among other things, it pays for Medicare, Medicaid, VA, TriCare and a wide range of state and local health care programs, along with private insurance for government employees and tax subsidies for private insurance. Whether you call it single-payer or Medicare for All, it isn’t some socialist pipe dream. It’s a sensible, efficie...
To The Eagle: In these pages a fortnight past, Dennis Gordon performed his annual gauntlet-flinging ritual, challenging several of us to a town hall style debate, to which we once again demur, but note in passing the invisible elephant in the room, which is that that debate has been going on for at least a couple of decades right here in The Eagle. And that parley has been au courant with the scientific illiteracy of the enviro movement and the malfeasance and ineptitude of our state government as it applies to more local issues such as forest...
To The Eagle: As superintendent of our school district, I am charged with ensuring our children get a quality education and that our district remains an accurate reflection of our wonderful community. I truly appreciate the dialog that has taken place over the past several weeks and I want to extend my gratitude to all who participated in the conversation, particularly those who took the time and came to the school to share insights and see for themselves the issues that face us as we move forward. My door remains open and I look forward to...
