Ken Dollinger: Approaching aging with an adventurous attitude
By KEN DOLLINGER As I enter my eighth decade circling the sun, now the oldest male in my family going back three generations, I find myself being nagged by an increasing amount of introspection. I guess ...
Offbeat Oregon: Second-largest city, Camp Adair, built in six months
By early 1941, the U.S. Army knew it was about to get sucked into at least one of the wars that were already raging around the world. The Selective Service and Training Act had passed the previous fall, ...
Jeb Bladine: Maintaining connectivity among local leaders
McMinnville’s history includes eras with long-serving leaders integrated throughout what admittedly was a smaller, more cohesive community in less complex times. That history wasn’t without ...
Madilynne Clark: House Water Resources bills assess double what's needed
By MADILYNNE CLARK Of the Cascade Policy Institute House Bills 2808 and 2165 seek to address the Oregon Water Resources Department budget shortfall of $875,000, but through different methods. Instead ...
N-R editorial: Jobless benefits for strikers violates standard of fairness
Extending unemployment benefits to striking workers in both the public and private sectors — a national first the Oregon Legislature now seems poised to sign off on — is a bridge too far for ...
Letters to the Editor: June 13, 2025
Putter in place What if they throw their “really big show” and no one shows up? What if all those who would protest against the parade get really smart. Instead of walking into a set-up that ...
Investigating the Bible: A father’s forgiveness
By David Carlson Pastor As a father, President Harry S. Truman, gave this guidance: “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them ...
Quirk of the Week: Where the sidewalk oddities begin
From arm-span vineyards to imbedded bricks, we return this week to sidewalk scenes, a seemingly-endless Quirk resource. Sidewalk surfaces, wherever you go, are themselves examples of Quirk, on several ...
Charles House: Stop rewriting history to downplay the pandemic
The lunacy continues. Now the demented head of HHS, clearly beset by his own brain worm, has decided for all of us that we basically should not have free rights to the Covid vaccines unless we are over 65 with other unspecified underlying conditions.
Investigating the Bible: Unanswered prayers
The late Ravi Zacharias was a senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and a respected Bible scholar. In his book, “Has Christianity Failed You?” he wrote about his family’s experience with prayer when his mother suffered a stroke at the young age of fifty-seven.
Jeb Bladine: Setting pride aside to focus on city leadership
McMinnville City Manager Jeff Towery’s resignation announcement sparked a flurry of community talk, news stories and commentary, all of which will continue with background of the semi-charged politics ...
Quirk of the Week: Signs designed to guide, instruct and divert
Signage is an anchor when it comes to Quirk. We are surrounded by signs; they serve critical needs and varied interests. Official or otherwise, they provide information, guidance and entertainment. This ...
Jan Iversen: Learning how we can take a step closer to each other
Standing in the crowd along Adams Street holding up my homemade sign of protest, I was in a good position to study the faces of the people driving by — especially since the signal at Fifth often slowed drivers to a crawl.
Journalism faculty warns against curbs on speech
An open letter to our journalism students and the University of Oregon community from faculty and staff of the School of Journalism and Communication: Dear students, colleagues and our community, Journalism ...
Jeb Bladine: Oregon leads fast-moving tariffs lawsuit
Federal courts, usually a tortoise in the race for justice and resolution, can still move quickly and decisively, as the Trump Administration learned again this week. Activation of new U.S. tariffs began ...
