Whatchamacolumn: Making sure trust is tempered with wariness
The older I get, the more cautious I become about financial transactions with anyone I don’t personally know and trust. Sometimes, even that isn’t enough protection from fraud. Take Ruben ...
Letter to readers: Jillian Boenisch/ Caterpillars, cursive, and growing up with Dundee Elementary
As the doors to the old Dundee Elementary School close, new ones open. A new era of the school begins this fall with the school district’s newly-constructed building. But first, a farewell to all ...
Investigating the Bible: The Bible’s most beautiful chapter
The Bible contains many wonderful chapters offering inspiration and truth: Genesis 1 details God’s creative power; In Psalm 23, God is our loving shepherd; Psalm 103 recognizes all the benefits from the Lord; Isaiah 64 foretells God’s role of mercy and forgiveness; Jesus preached his great Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5; John 1 has the miraculous statement, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…” (verse 14) ; Colossians 1 expands the full divinity of Jesus. Many would consider I Corinthians 13 as one of the best and most beautiful.
Casey Kulla: We’re not helpless in the face of fire
Nine years ago this week, I was out in our fields crying as I harvested our vegetables.
I was singing the farewell song from Holden Village, the remote, wooded community where I spent my formative years, as it seemed destined to burn to the ground in the face of a wildfire. It goes, “Give us good courage, not knowing where we go; to know that your hand is leading us, wherever we might go.”
Simon Haeder: Negotiated prescription drug prices to save billions
The Biden administration has announced reduced prices negotiated with pharmaceutical companies for the first 10 drugs on its target list.
Whatchamacolumn: System development charges replace tax increases
Tax increase proposals, always controversial, can be defeated by voters. Local government tax increases for infrastructure development, also controversial, are being avoided with significant increases ...
Calendar of Quirk: Scattering Quirk, from downtown McMinnville north to Carlton and Yamhill
We begin this week with three quaint images that seem uniformly cut from some post-Depression encyclopedia: road signs, all of them yellow. While not unique to McMinnville, the signs sweetly remind us ...
Ken Dollinger: A cabin in the woods opens windows on life
It was Thanksgiving 1997, and we just lost our minds. Two kids raised in the treeless West Texas Panhandle had just purchased a forest! Linda and I started out on a simple search for a small, private ...
Whatchamacolumn: Meeting comments on the record in Carlton, statewide
I did a double-take on our story about Monday’s Planning Commission meeting in Carlton. Concerned citizens attended to raise concerns about possible development of a gas station near a floodplain ...
Sal Peralta: Hatfield right on danger of mixing politics with religion
In 1973, U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, an evangelical Christian from Dallas, Oregon, delivered a National Prayer Breakfast speech that began this way: “My brothers and sisters: As we gather at this prayer ...
Offbeat Oregon: $2.6 million party highlighted Oregon’s ‘age of innocence’
One of the real privileges of being a lifelong Oregonian of a certain, er, vintage, is the opportunity to have seen this state in its golden age — roughly, 1946 through 1980 — through a child’s ...
The Conversation: Netanyahu risks regional war in effort to remain in power
By ASHER KAUFMAN Of the University of Notre Dame Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah military leader HezkFuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran have raised again ...
Whatchamacolumn: Pay or negotiate, but don't ignore small debts
More and more people overspend credit cards, fail to pay various personal debts and incur even greater financial losses from highly organized debt collection systems. Regularly published records, once ...
Janice Allen: Both Phillips and DeHart need to go in Newberg
By JANICE ALLEN Failed Newberg School Superintendent Stephen Phillips, about to be reassigned, should be terminated instead. He should not continue to receive a paycheck, and most certainly not one including ...
Kelsey Murray: Health officials committed to reversing tide of suicide
Suicide is a serious public health problem. As such, it requires a comprehensive public health approach. In 2022, a staggering 49,476 people in the United States, including 883 people in Oregon, ...
