Quirk of the Week: The gone show
School’s nearly out, summer solstice nears, it’s professional baseball/basketball overlap time ... This is a season of transition. With that, a new selection of “Gone, returned, revisited ...
From the Conversation: As Colorado River shrivels, states angle for advantage
The Colorado River is in trouble. Simply put, not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump stuck in box of his own making
Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with one on the Iran war.
Jeb Bladine: Local health insurance fight just the beginning
Health insurance in America is unstable and becoming more so. Insurance companies are cancelling unprofitable policies, creating narrower service networks and tightening benefits. There are nationwide ...
Investigating the Bible: An open letter to Willie Nelson
Dear Mr. Nelson / Willie, Why a letter to you? One of your early songs was about the book I investigate each week, the Bible. You were out of money, so you sold “The Family Bible”; Claude ...
Quirk of the Week: What’s Lorna doin’ now?
The sign is new; the cat seems timeless. You might have seen it as of a few months back. “Hi! My name is Lorna! I live here!” The dialogue balloon-style sign is in the window of McMinnville’s ...
Jeb Bladine: Memorial Day Weekend merges fiction, reality
Memorial Day Weekend: flowers to the cemetery, a family barbeque, national mourning for military personnel who died in the line of duty, and opportunity for holiday escape into a marathon movie series. This ...
Jonah Goldberg: Maybe it’s the product and not the packaging
There’s an ancient almost surely apocryphal story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec running through all of the company’s advantages — the best sales team, the best advertising, the best packaging and so forth — then irately asking, “So why aren’t we selling more dog food?”
From The Conversation: Young Latinos are shaping future of Catholic Church
On Ash Wednesday, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside.
Ellie Gunn: Sharing the Linfield experience on eve of another graduation
A great deal happened during my time as circulation manager at Linfield University’s Northup Library from 1985 to 1989.
Investigating the Bible: The value of consequences
Meg Faville wrote in The Reader’s Digest about her family’s experience in Okinawa when a Fourth of July was celebrated. The military base always hosted a spectacular fireworks display. They ...
Quirk of the Week: A street well met
“Get your own Quirk, easy installments!” If this were a cheesy commercial it wouldn’t come with “Operators standing by — order right now!” (Remember the old “late-night-TV” ...
Jonah Goldberg: Founding Fathers would have gotten rid of Trump long ago
In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the previous year, and presidential pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delegates.
