Jeb Bladine: Questions extending the TML Plan debate
One lesson from the debate about Three Mile Lane developments: Generational-impact initiatives needing multi-focused community input should not be formulated during a pandemic. A stimulating public hearing ...
Bladine: Take closer look at urban renewal
Yamhill County commissioners do well to raise questions about the finances of urban renewal (UR), as detailed this week by reporter Nicole Montesano. But those questions deserve a few questions in response. Commissioners ...
Bladine: County wants new gun laws ignored
A majority of Americans want new gun laws in response to our continuing national epidemic of mass shoots. Congress is being pressured, but laws already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives are expected ...
Bladine: Local budget talks ignored PERS cost
It’s budget approval time for local governments, as numbers for 2022-23 have been crunched and published as legal notices for all (who care) to see. It was a rocky road for the city of McMinnville, ...
Jeb Bladine: The poison politics of mass shootings
Mass shootings produce passionate responses as people cope with deep grief and ponder how such events can be ended, or at least reduced. One such mixture came from President Joe Biden. A different approach ...
Jeb Bladine: Beginning journey to ‘digital balance’
People with poor eating habits might read the same books, try the same diets and talk with others about their quests for more energy and better health. Support group dynamics are all-important in AA programs ...
Jeb Bladine: Striving for balance in economic strategy
Financial stresses take many shapes for people, businesses and institutions: Hangovers from the pandemic; inflationary prices; gridlocked supply chains; limited spending choices among many needs for food, ...
Jeb Bladine: Make sure that the bypass is a bypass
Long ago, McMinnville leaders established Three Mile Lane access and zoning restrictions to prevent development similar to our North Highway 99W. Today, that protection may be threatened by plans to allow ...
Jeb Bladine: We have our own little ‘Wonderland’
Some great quotes come from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. “Be what you would seem to be,” said the Duchess, who then put it “more simply”: Whatchamacolumn Jeb ...
Jeb Bladine: Need a lead for city budget story
Thought-provoking news and commentary articles often begin with a lead paragraph giving readers a succinct summary of the most important facts. Good luck with ideas to capsulize Tuesday night’s ...
Jeb Bladine: Word of caution on consignment sales
Salem attorney Young Walgenkim is an expert on fraudulent vehicle sales; his firm of Hanson & Walgenkim actually has a company companion website with the address, “isuecardealers.com.” Whatchamacolumn Jeb ...
Jeb Bladine: Profiles emerge in election results
“This election,” we wrote three weeks ago, “will tell Yamhill County much about who we are.” Truer words could hardly have been written. Politically, based on votes for and against ...
Jeb Bladine: Threat of warfare lies in cyberspace
Computer vulnerabilities may be the Achilles heel of an unprepared America. As Russian forces continue to decimate Ukraine, and world tensions rise, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is pondering the possibility ...
Bladine: Leader recoils from the darkness within
This week’s column goes to Dallas Heard, Oregon state senator from Roseburg who just finished one year as Oregon Republican Party chairman. His good-bye letter was a disturbing commentary on Oregon ...
Bladine: Time for the county to show who we are
We owe a debt of gratitude to those who produced an opportunity to vote for the recall of current Yamhill County governance. Yes, your mail-in ballot says this vote is for or against the recall of Yamhill ...
