Jeb Bladine: This week, too many stories, not enough space
It’s Spring Grab Bag week, with multiple stories that deserve at least passing commentary. Muted Earth Day: Earth Day — April 22, often extended to Earth Week — involves more than 150,000 ...
Investigating the Bible: More on salt
A lady stood at a city corner, handing out brochures promoting her church. Evidently, she was having a bad day and was in a foul mood, which unfortunately was obvious to one man. As she extended the folded ...
Quirk of the Week: Off-the-wall in Willamina
Ready to rock ‘n’ rail? Let’s head to Timbertown, USA. You’ll see what we mean … Sheridan and Dundee had, well, dan-dee, moments in this column in recent weeks. (Lafayette, ...
Quirk of the Week: Discoveries in every direction
On Tax Day, we can all use a little direction but also a bit of diversion. Here, then, is a McMinnville Quirk Compass, with something special in all four directions: North: Two Quirks of note, just outside ...
Scott Gibson: China leaving U.S. behind on renewable energy front
About the writer: Scott Gibson has practiced medicine in his hometown of McMinnville since 1989. He and his wife, Melody, raised their three children in McMinnville before moving to the Eola Hills in 2017 ...
Investigating the Bible: Living better
I once read that natives in African jungle villages captured monkeys by hollowing out a coconut through a hole and putting a pebble inside. The hole in the side of the coconut was so small that a monkey ...
Letter to Readers: On the other side of the interview
In March 2024, I wrote a story about a new podcast center at Duniway Middle School. In honor of the late student Ronan Godrey, the Traveling Light Foundation and Cruising McMinnville paid to decorate ...
Jeb Bladine: Kids caught more than crawdads in City Park
In the News-Register, our weekly “Vintage N-R” photo array is accompanied by “Memory Lane” morsels from 10, 25 and 50 past years. We reminisce about times when Hotel Oregon was ...
Cyrus Javadi: Assault on vote by mail has no grounding in fact
Not long after I announced for state representative in 2022, I found myself at Arnie’s, on Main Street in Warrenton, making my case to the Clatsop County Republican Party faithful.
Russell Mark: Hope is the healer that means the most
Hope is a curious thing. It is often hard-won, sometimes late in arriving, and rarely linear.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump creates new enemies at every turn
It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era.
Jeb Bladine: 'Ten pounds of confusion in a five-pound box'
Kudos to the city of McMinnville and McMinnville Industrial Promotions (MIP) for their Wednesday night performance of a civics lesson that cut tortuously close to what’s wrong with government in ...
Investigating the Bible: Keys to success
Comedian Carol Burnett should like the Willamette Valley. Throughout her long career, she believed rain always brought her success. Starting in grammar school, whenever she took a test and it was raining, ...
