Amity switches to new water plant, bringing online more efficient processing, monitoring

Amity water users can take a deep gulp of water now that the city is running on its new water treatment plant as on Thursday, Feb 19. “We switched over to the new clear well and process last week ...

Commentary

Snowplows and boats have famously been subject to citizen-nominated naming contests in recent years, most famously “Boaty McBoatface” for a British polar research vessel a few years ago. Portland ...

This past Presidents’ Day, I was thinking about George Washington — not with respect to his finest hour, though, but possibly his worst.

Today is the World Day of Social Justice. I’m sure many of you have been poised with your social justice party hats, dancing in anticipation of Feb. 20 rolling around again.

President Trump says Republicans should “nationalize the election,” or at least assume control of the process in up to 15 places he says voting is corrupt. His evidence of fraudulent voting is that he lost in such places in 2020, and since it’s axiomatic that he won everywhere, the reported results serve as proof of the fraud.

Oregonians have focused too much attention on government taxes and not enough on government spending. That applies as well to McMinnville, where changes in city leadership do not yet seem destined to quell ...

Editorials

In this semiquincentennial birthday year for America, history reminds us that opposition to taxation measures — Stamp Act, Townshend Duties, Tea Act — helped light the fuse that sparked the ...

The nonprofit Unidos Bridging Community, prominently featured in a story in last Friday’s News-Register, has been providing support services to Yamhill County’s large and diverse Latino population ...

For the first 150 years of its statehood, Oregon limited regular legislative sessions to odd-numbered years. As governance turned increasingly complex and contentious, it became one of only a handful of ...

During his first term, Donald Trump’s ravenous crusade to bend the world to his will was at least partially restrained by people holding key elective and appointive posts. Not so this time around, ...

Public school enrollment has been declining for the last 10 years in McMinnville, punctuated by a precipitous plunge during the pandemic followed by a limited recovery in succeeding years that seems to ...

Letters

The News-Register welcomes written opinions about issues of public interest and about the content of this newspaper. Letters from non-local writers are accepted only if they focus on local issues. This ...

Damaging leasing practices I am writing as a concerned community member about the growing impact of excessive rent increases and profit-driven practices by some landlords in downtown McMinnville. Small ...

Get a real Republican This moderate Republican has praised the News-Register many times and still thinks we are lucky to have a newspaper, left-leaning though it may be. I have a criticism, though. It ...

Vote them out Under President Trump, the United States is inching closer and closer to becoming a tyranny, a totalitarian state where a lawless government’s power is exercised by one man, according ...

Where’s the leadership? Physical impotence can damage relationships and mental health, which is why billions are spent every year on treatments for erectile dysfunction. Lately, we’re seeing ...

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