Investigating the Bible: Living better
I once read that natives in African jungle villages captured monkeys by hollowing out a coconut through a hole and putting a pebble inside. The hole in the side of the coconut was so small that a monkey ...
Letter to Readers: On the other side of the interview
In March 2024, I wrote a story about a new podcast center at Duniway Middle School. In honor of the late student Ronan Godrey, the Traveling Light Foundation and Cruising McMinnville paid to decorate ...
Jeb Bladine: Kids caught more than crawdads in City Park
In the News-Register, our weekly “Vintage N-R” photo array is accompanied by “Memory Lane” morsels from 10, 25 and 50 past years. We reminisce about times when Hotel Oregon was ...
Cyrus Javadi: Assault on vote by mail has no grounding in fact
Not long after I announced for state representative in 2022, I found myself at Arnie’s, on Main Street in Warrenton, making my case to the Clatsop County Republican Party faithful.
Russell Mark: Hope is the healer that means the most
Hope is a curious thing. It is often hard-won, sometimes late in arriving, and rarely linear.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump creates new enemies at every turn
It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era.
Jeb Bladine: 'Ten pounds of confusion in a five-pound box'
Kudos to the city of McMinnville and McMinnville Industrial Promotions (MIP) for their Wednesday night performance of a civics lesson that cut tortuously close to what’s wrong with government in ...
Investigating the Bible: Keys to success
Comedian Carol Burnett should like the Willamette Valley. Throughout her long career, she believed rain always brought her success. Starting in grammar school, whenever she took a test and it was raining, ...
Quirk of the Week: Been there, Dundee that
Last week’s news story about folks in Dundee protesting a certain fast-food chain development in town came down to this: what qualities give Dundee its character? What makes it unique? And, yes, ...
Quirk of the Week: All about eaves
Porches and carports are two underappreciated domestic spaces. A carport is not just a poor man’s garage, and a porch can be more than a covered entry. Both can do much to project a home’s ...
Jeb Bladine: 2026 is showtime for Westsider Trail supporters
In 2026 — 14 years later — it’s showtime for Yamhelas Westsider Trail supporters. County voters could face three trail-related ballot measures in November, and those issues will weigh ...
Jonah Goldberg: News flash: He never had any real plan
When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative last Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls “the weave.” What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic.
Investigating the Bible: The foundation of joy
Author Lucie Winborne, in her column “Strange But True,” wrote about Margaret Dixon, a Scottish criminal hanged in 1753. Amazingly, just a few hours later she climbed out of her coffin quite ...
Monica Duffy Toft: Overconfidence is how today's wars are lost
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are most commonly lost in the instigators’ minds — when they misread what they and their adversaries can do, when they substitute confidence for comprehension, when they mistake the last war for the next one.
