Time is right to reconsider a county lodging tax
Yamhill County Commissioner candidate Bubba King has revived discussions about a countywide Transient Lodging Tax (TLT) by making it a key issue of his current campaign. Incumbent Commissioner Lindsay ...
Bubba King clear choice for county commissioner
David “Bubba” King, challenging incumbent Lindsay Berschauer for a seat on the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners in Oregon’s May 21 primary, is an engaging candidate. On the work ...
Gudman best qualified in state treasurer race
In an ideal world, politics would permeate the governor’s office, but the offices of attorney general, secretary of state, labor commissioner and state treasurer would be as non-partisan as we could ...
Read stands out among secretary of state hopefuls
Over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s, Phil Keisling, Bill Bradbury and Kate Brown combined to head the Secretary of State’s office for a quarter of a century. But since Brown ascended to ...
Parties best served with Rayfield, Latrhrop for AG
We found the calls remarkably easy to make, on both sides of the aisle, for nomination to the attorney general helm being ceded by three-term Democrat Ellen Rosenblum. Our endorsements go to former House ...
Torrent slows to a trickle in Oregon's 2024 primary
Torrent slows to a trickle in 2024 primary Two years ago, we led off the start of the biennial candidate endorsement process with an editorial headlined: “Showering of April endorsements marks flowering ...
After-school program needs a new team of champions
When it comes to McMinnville’s successful but financially starving after-school program, the headlines tell the story. They tell it in glowing terms from the founding of Kids on the Block in 1989 ...
Time to get going on McDougall Junction
Patience and persistence seem to be the watchwords for getting deficiencies in the local highway grid addressed. Local improvement advocates run up against two powerful forces, one working to limit the ...
City spending referendum doesn't require a petition
What do you do if you’re outvoted 13-1 and you still want your way? If you’re McMinnville City Councilor Chris Chenoweth, it would seem, you launch a petition drive aimed at overturning the ...
Spirit of compromise fosters major breaktrhoughs in Salem
What a difference a year makes. Last year, rancor ruled throughout the 160 days set aside for odd-year legislative sessions in Oregon. Senate Republicans staged a walkout that halted work outright for ...
Community educational efforts key to countering youth suicide
“It takes a village to raise a child” is an ancient proverb originating with indigenous tribal cultures in West Africa. It’s based on the premise that successful child rearing requires ...
Is Hastings Village a model worth emulating around here?
An array of churches, schools, nonprofits and social service agencies manage, by tackling different aspects of the problem in a largely if loosely collaborative fashion, to do a lot to help the unhoused ...
Leave medical choices to us, without political interference
In democratic republics like ours, we rely on a broad array of guardrails, be they legislative, judicial, constitutional, moral, ethical or social in nature, to prevent political demagogues from seizing ...
Timing ups the ante for diversity and equity push
The city of McMinnville is riding a powerful state and regional tailwind, but bucking a powerful national headwind, in moving toward adoption of a comprehensive diversity, equity and inclusion program ...
Legislature feeling heat over homelessness and addiction
The Oregon Legislature embarked Monday on its most ambitious 35-day even-year short session ever. Housing, homelessness and addiction figure to dominate the agenda, but thorny budget issues, including ...
