Whatchamacolumn: Commentary comes easily in a turbulent world
When it comes to commentary, we are living in a target-rich environment. Let’s start local: If people contact authorities about a hybrid wolf pack prowling school playground areas and killing neighborhood ...
PeaceVoice: Good governance is a vital American value
By STEPHANIE GASIOR Growing up, my dad told me the best job I could ever have would be working for the government. He identified three clear reasons: stability, benefits and impact. Perhaps unsurprisingly, ...
Starla Pointer: Best of intentions need to be built into daily routine
I’ve had a few sunburns in my life, including while playing as a child and while covering afternoon graduations from seats on the track, rather than in the grandstand. But as a lifelong Oregonian, ...
Investigating the Bible: Recognize anger, don’t bury it
Anger is usually easy to recognize. Sociologists found that anger’s facial expression is universal. They traveled to a remote tribe in New Guinea and their photograph of an angry native man showed a furrowed brow and clenched jaw. When seen in others or felt ourselves, the Bible offers guidance on anger.
Quirk of the Week: Running the table of element-inspired names
It’s a case of widespread Quirk this week — the large number of local businesses named for earth, wood, water and other elements. We mean from the soil to the sky: literally, from The Ground ...
Whatchamacolumn: Trump creating needed jobs in national media
As a news reporter, Donald Trump would be warned and monitored, then fired; as a newspaper editorial writer, he simply would be terminated for cause. But as president of the United States, he is creating ...
Anna Marrant Barsotti: Lamenting loss of rangers to unlock nature's wonders
I was recently at the beach, just approaching the Yaquina Head visitor booth, when a “hydrologic event” hit. The ranger apologized that the normal hours had been shortened, as half of the frontline ...
Investigating the Bible: A child became the teacher
Draymond Green is a six-foot-six-inch powerhouse player on the Golden State Warriors. For his many fights, fouls, and floppings (pretending to be fouled), he was indefinitely suspended by the NBA.
Quirk of the Week: Yoda, Barbie, Buzz and Mickey charm kids, and staff, at local Bottle Drop
Rows of familiar faces — dinosaurs, monkeys, princesses, trolls, ponies, dogs, hedgehogs, and more — are found in an unlikely place in McMinnville. But it’s not a toy store, collectibles ...
Barrett Rainey: Echoes sound from detention of young Japanese classmates
A long time ago — 1942 to be exact — I was in the second grade at East Wenatchee Grade School in Washington. Remember your second-grade classroom? A wall of windows, a wall of blackboards. ...
Whatchamacolumn: Yet another raid on legal notices in newspapers
It’s time for the annual raid on legal notices that have been published in Oregon newspapers for more than 150 years — the subject of a full-page display in today’s News-Register. In ...
The Conversation: Motorists of color still stopped more frequently
By WENFEI XU, DAVID LEVINSON, MICHAEL SMART & NEBIYOU TILAHUNA team of university researchers Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil ...
Investigating the Bible: Age doesn't matter
By DAVID CARLSON PASTOR Two older women were in line for movie tickets and requested the senior citizen discount. When they started to look in their purses for their driver’s licenses, the ...
Starla Pointer: Alone with my thoughts, invited to record them
For the first time in ages, I could pay attention to the voices in my head — a very good thing. Instead of being distracted by daily life or my work — which I love; don’t get me wrong ...
Whatchamacolumn: Actual numbers belie claims of ‘massive mandate’
It was no surprise to see protest rallies nationwide on Presidents’ Day, or as activists proclaimed, “Not My President’s Day.” Demonstrations, including those in Portland and Salem, ...
