Ken Dollinger: Hatch and release
With help of volunteers, local students look after salmon and trout from eggs to fry stage
Whatchamacolumn: City budget transparency faces information overload
A newly constituted McMinnville City Council took office on Tuesday, that following Saturday’s council goal-setting retreat. Along the way, discussion of the sprawling city budget produced an interesting ...
Letter to readers: Firefighters are all about a quick response time
Trying to reach people for comment, questions or confirmation of something is a daily routine for reporters and can sometimes be frustrating when it’s a deadline day and you just need that one last ...
Investigating the Bible: Overcoming discrimination
Jan. 20, 2025, honors Martin Luther King Jr. In one of his sermons he said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” In the Old Testament is a story of racism and how a brave woman and man intervened with God’s help to stop the evil.
Scott Gibson: Trump love affair with tariffs could end up wielding havoc
A key question facing Americans as the second Trump administration looms is this — for what purpose does Donald Trump see tariffs?
Quirk: On College Ave., a vacant house, a cinderblock structure and a Villa
Somewhat coincidentally (for those things are elemental to Quirk) this week’s focus begins just around the corner from last week’s entries, on College Avenue at Linfield University. Quirk ...
Letter to Readers: ’24 Hours: A look back at last year’s cycle of round-the-clock stories
This was a series that made the clock come alive. The News-Register started ‘24 Hours on Jan. 15, 2024, and concluded the series on Dec. 18, 2024: We told 24 separate stories about life in Yamhill ...
Offbeat Oregon: Soggy, primitive Hug Point Road may have saved Oregon beaches
Sometime around 1908, a resident of south Clatsop County — probably from the hamlet of Arch Cape — got sick and tired of dealing with Hug Point, and decided to do something about it. It was ...
Randy Stapilus: What turned the 5th blue? Anatomy of a House flip
Although Oregon mostly held to its usual political patterns this election, that doesn’t mean nothing changed. The pre-eminent example of change came in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, ...
Whatchamacolumn: Scammers come at us every day in every way
Here’s a disquieting New Year’s thought: Every day, in every way, criminals are preying on vulnerable people via phone, mail, texts, email; all manner of print, digital, video and audio misrepresentations; ...
Quirk of the Week: Looking back at the Quirk that got away
This week we take up where Calendar of Quirk left off at the end of 2024. We rebrand it Quirk of the Week (clever, that!) because, generally, we’ll look at just one Quirk at a time, or a few that ...
Investigating the Bible: New insight, new behavior
The late Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” described his experience on a New York subway when a man and his young children boarded. The children began to run around, being loud and rude to all the passengers.
Barrett Rainey: It takes shared commitment to foster renewal in America
What will we be like — what will this nation be like — on the other side?
Whatchamacolumn: Family displays Oregon drug treatment failures
We can only wonder how John Kyle Donnahoo was available for criminal duty two weeks ago in Newberg, with charges now including robbery, kidnapping, coercion, theft, unlawful weapon and delivery of a controlled ...
Letter to Readers: Jimmy Carter, a man of peace, will be long remembered
I wrote the following letter to readers in February 2023, when former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care and was expected to die soon. He lived almost two more years, outliving his wife, Rosalynn, ...
