Rusty Rae: Hardy entrepreneurs honor Oregon newspaper heritage
What does it take to publish a community newspaper these days? It may seem a strange question to ask here, but these days, running a newspaper is fraught with challenges no ordinary person would take, even on a dare.
Jeb Bladine: Financial uncertainty of downtown development
Plans for major renovation of downtown McMinnville infrastructure have been studied, debated, expanded, delayed, amended and delayed again to the point of great financial uncertainty. The long-promised ...
Investigating the Bible: Good gossip
Here’s a word for Scrabble: quidnunc. It’s Latin for what now? Webster’s Dictionary says this a person who is “…avidly curious and given to speculating, especially about ephemeral or petty things.” A quidnunc is a gossip and it is little surprise how the Bible treats this behavior.
Quirk of the Week: McMinnville’s marquee figures
Quirk of May 14, with its UFO Fest focus, once again spotlighted a distinctive odd trend that had also been celebrated in 2024: the family of mannequins in downtown McMinnville. There’s more to ...
Kirby Neumann-Rea: Starting over on a new fork in the road of life
I came to the News-Register four years ago a novice, not knowing the people or the landscape, literally and figuratively.
Phil Forve: Put country before party
In August 1974, Americans were shocked as they heard a recording of President Richard Nixon in which he admitted his complicity in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal — a bungled burglary of the Democratic National Headquarters office at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.. during the 1972 Presidential election cycle that had been under investigation by Congress.
Investigating the Bible: Paperless honesty
An older gentleman at the desk checked a woman into a hotel. She learned from staff that he was 98 years old! She later asked him how he could still be so active at his advanced age? The old fellow scratched his head.
Jeb Bladine: Taking a deep dive into the city budget pool
Statewide, citizens are taking deep dives this month into proposed municipal budgets for 2025-26; in McMinnville, the 14-member Budget Committee may scrape a few knees on the bottom of the pool. Their ...
Quirk of the Week: Space oddities abound in Mac
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” – Carl Sagan The words of the late great astronomer stand on a board in the window of Oregon Stationers, one of many businesses again ...
Casey Kulla: Prioritize local roads and bridges over expressways
About the writer: A former Yamhill County commissioner, Casey Kulla lives on Grand Island with his extended farm family. He is known for stubbornly insisting that trails, bikes and kids are all awesome. The ...
Jeb Bladine: City council faces tough decisions on expenditures
McMinnville City Council — acting as governing body for both the city and its Urban Renewal Agency (URA) — faces some serious financial challenges in a series of upcoming meetings. Years of ...
Investigating the Bible: A day to honor mothers and mothers-in-law
May 11 this year we honor mothers. However, mothers-in-law often get bad press. Marjorie Manson Telford wrote in the Reader’s Digest about a visit to her parents with her new husband, who was a frogman in the Navy. During their visit, her husband took her aside and said, “I don’t think your mother likes me. I explained to her that I can’t wear my wedding ring when I dive in the ocean because barracudas are attracted to shiny things and might bite off my finger. Your mother said, ‘Well, can’t you wear it on a chain around your neck?’” In the Bible, one mother-in-law was a woman of great love.
Kirby Neumann-Rea: Embrace of sports gambling puts NBA on a perilous path
So, sports fans, what’s the role of the NBA in this era of codified sports gambling?
Jeb Bladine: Take blindfolds off RB Rubber project planning
Let’s acknowledge up front that community development under Oregon’s urban renewal law is complex and confusing. But that doesn’t justify the city of McMinnville’s long-delayed ...
Investigating the Bible: Victory after death
Author Peggy Noonan wrote about a child of missionaries in Russia, whose parents enrolled her in a Soviet public school. The young girl shared her beliefs with classmates and was surprised they knew much about Jesus, nodding in agreement as she told them of his life. When she mentioned the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, they all shook their heads: “No, no, no,” the students said.
