Leah Gneiting: This is what learning should feel like for me
What first drew me to the Southern Oregon community of Butte Falls wasn’t the small-town setting or the school itself.
Jeb Bladine: Kent Taylor memories can be passed forward
It seemed fitting, after being privileged to speak at his celebration of life, to reminisce here about the late Kent Taylor, McMinnville’s city manager from 1986 to 2014. Much of that, however, ...
Investigating the Bible: Overcoming mistakes
James Keller, in his book, “One Moment Please!” wrote about a corrections officer at a Nebraska jail who received a letter for a man who was not an inmate. He was puzzled until he read the note scribbled on the back of the envelope: “If not in jail yet, please hold until he arrives.” Everyone makes mistakes. One leader in the Bible paid a high price for his mistake.
Quirk of the Week: In the pits
Whatever happened to horseshoes, the game? While not a dead sport (see Willamina, below), it is a great American tradition but has a forgotten feel. That is, if a fair indication is the neglected state ...
Jeb Bladine: AI takes a dive into ambulance service finances
Readers — here and far beyond — will continue and expand their engagement with artificial intelligence, which has become the quintessential research tool of our age. Each time, readers should ...
Sheri King: Hoover's humanitarianism serves as beacon for us all
When I began working as a tour guide at Newberg’s Hoover-Minthorn Museum, in the spring of 2024, I knew about as much about Herbert Hoover as most Americans — that he was the Great Depression president.
Quirk of the Week: Now you see it, now you don’t
And sometimes you see it again How do you give a second look to something no longer there? The question lends itself to Quirk, and this week we celebrate examples mentioned in 2024 and 2025 that are ...
Brad Lunt: Kent Taylor was one of the good ones
I went to get a new phone a couple of months ago and endured a conversion process that keeps getting harder the older I get.
Rob Davis: Spread of misinformation torched wildfire risk map
About the writer: A native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Rob Davis cut his journalistic teeth in Virginia. He’s spent more than a decade now working as an investigative reporter in Oregon. Before ...
Investigating the Bible: Age is not a barrier
Economist and prolific author Thomas Sowell is ninety-five, so he is qualified for opinions about old age: “Some people age like fine wine and others just turn into vinegar.” An elderly champion of the Bible demonstrated how to keep living productively.
Jeb Bladine: City manager transparent on costs for bonds
Interim McMinnville City Manager Adam Garvin this week provided some welcome candor about taxpayer costs being estimated for McMinnville’s proposed $98.5 million recreation bond measure on the November ...
Quirk of the Week: Collection of county curiosities
Pasture boat, bear on a log, quizzical owl are stops on an imaginative route We start another around-the-county Quirk tour back where we left off last week, in Dayton. At the city’s dormant Palmer ...
Max Chase: The future is now for women's pro baseball
‘You’re a girl. You shouldn’t play baseball.
“You’re too short. You’re not strong enough. Why don’t you play softball instead?”
Jeb Bladine: Bringing it home with AI's database research
What’s the big deal with artificial intelligence? Well, for one, at least according to AI itself: “AI revolutionizes data-based research by automating data collection and analysis, identifying ...
Jeffrey Cohen: End genocide in Palestine and preserve our humanity
Israel and The United States of America are committing genocide. And while Israel continues to kill thousands of Palestinians, and the U.S. continues to provide the weapons of mass destruction that Israel is using to carry out that genocide, the entire planet is sitting on its thumbs giving lip service to recognition of Palestine as a separate nation.
