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• Area children participate in annual Shop With A Cop event
  At this year’s Shop With a Cop event, volunteers included officers from Vancouver Police Department, Battle Ground Police Department, Clark County Sheriff’s Office and Washington State Patrol.
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  Opinion: WA Cares is a lump of coal in workers’ stockings
  Elizabeth Hovde of the Washington Policy Center, says about WA Cares: ‘there is nothing merry about taking from the poor to give to those who have more.
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  Gov’s Office downplays former state economist’s claim of pressure to lie about gas prices
  The Governor’s Office has preliminary, tentative findings regarding a former state economist who says he had to resign after suffering retaliation for his analysis that Washington’s cap-and-trade policy would significantly increase gas prices.
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  Opinion: Power is Prosperity – The battle for the LSR dams
  In her weekly column, Nancy Churchill applies the ‘prosperity principle’ to Washington state’s Columbia River Basin issue.
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  CCSO provides additional information on Sunday’s murder-suicide
  The Clark County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit continues its investigation of Sunday’s murder-suicide in Orchards that led to the deaths of five family members.
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  Washington public college enrollment lowest since 2014
  Washington state’s public universities are at their lowest combined levels of enrollment since 2014, according to state data.
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  Journey Theater presents The Wizard of Oz
  The story of Dorothy traveling to the Land of Oz will be told by Journey Theater’s performance of the Wizard of Oz, with six shows, starting with opening night on Friday, Dec. 8.