Quirk of the Week: Curiosities found in Gaston and north Yamhill County
One more north Yamhill County tour of Quirk, starting with a brief journey in and around Gaston (as promised): Checking these out might come with a visit to the 28th annual Wapato Car Showdown and related ...
Stephanie Baker: I lost my brother to our broken health care system
My brother, Tim, died a few weeks ago at the age of 69.
He’d been diagnosed with bile duct cancer that had metastasized to his liver. He was gone in less than two months, so quickly he didn’t even have the chance to try chemotherapy in hopes of buying him some more time
Jeb Bladine: Banks add fraud warnings to cash withdrawals
Banking customers, of course, can withdraw small or large amounts of cash from their accounts. However, in today’s world fraught with fraud, banks have adopted new communications seeking to warn ...
Investigating the Bible: Contentment in all circumstances
Chip and Joanna Gaines, of Waco, Texas, are founders of the home décor business, Magnolia Market. Joanna likes perfection. She explained in her book, “The Magnolia Story,” that when their four children were young, she plopped down to rest on their old sofa with the new white slipcover: “I made the mistake of looking down. My beautiful, brand-new, snowy-white slipcover was covered in little black fingerprints.”
Kirby Neumann-Rea: Is Mac truly trapped in time, or is it just the travel writer?
“McMinnville looks like something out of a Christmas card and its history dates back to the mid-1800s. McMinnville’s picture-perfect Third Street is lined with buildings built between the late 1800s and early 1900s.”
Mel Gustov: Scientific research is being gutted in the U.S.
There was a time not too long ago when American scientists and research facilities were the envy of the world. In those days, our scientists typically swept Nobel and other international prizes.
Jeb Bladine: Palestinian state? AI assists in report of debate
Heart-breaking images of starvation in Gaza are at least reminiscent of unspeakable modern-era examples of genocide described at www.genocideeducation.org. The stakes of that debate expanded this week ...
Investigating the Bible: Assumptions and facts
In the Reader’s Digest, Don Jentleson explained that he gave his 16-year-old son a prepaid cellphone and asked him to use it if he was ever out beyond his curfew. One Saturday evening, Jentleson dozed off in front of the TV and awoke beyond his son’s curfew time, with no sign of him and no call. He was irate. He called his son’s number and demanded, “Where are you and why didn’t you call?”
Quirk of the Week: Weird yard art keeps surprising
Following a few weeks of Quirk-diversions into the gone, the returned, the awry — or somewhere between — let’s settle into a happy look at things one can definitely see. These are bright ...
Rep. Cyrus Javad: SNAP and Medicaid 'freeloaders'? Are you talking about me?
Let’s begin with a little honesty: If you’re picturing an “illegal immigrant” lounging on a couch, collecting food stamps while dodging Border Patrol and watching Netflix, you’ve probably been lied to, or at least misled by too many Facebook memes.
Jeb Bladine: Evolving message for city rec bond: It’s time!
Voters will decide in November if McMinnville will develop a new community recreation and aquatic center overlooking Joe Dancer Park — a proposal supplemented by improvements to other civic facilities. Finally, ...
Arlyce Menzies: ‘American poor’ not a past to welcome back
I grew up poor. That is, American poor.
I fantasized about food at night — mashed potatoes, buttery dinner rolls, raspberry cheesecake. I would wake up and imagine a breakfast of strawberry waffles with whipped cream and cold orange juice, then talk myself toward accepting what I knew was actually there — toast with peanut butter and usually milk — as my dad did not tolerate ungratefulness.
Investigating the Bible: Truth and consequences
There’s a story in Reader’s Digest’s “Life in These United States” of a couple who enjoyed their drive along a Pennsylvania turnpike for its bucolic landscape views.
Quirk of the Week: Winging it, with a first or last look at the here and gone or back again
Quirk can be that which was here and gone — or just goes on display. “Greetings from 1986” reads the sign on a Reagan-era Mackintosh Plus monitor seen at Primisys computers. The display ...
