Letter to Readers: Veteran N-R reporter bids farewell, starts new chapter
Dear readers, For the last 30 years, it has been my privilege to write for you as a reporter for the News-Register. We’ve talked about county politics, land use and county government for the last ...
Whatchamacolumn: Brief user manual for readers of hazelnut story
Oregon’s second largest hazelnut processor called it quits this week — see today’s news — further muddling an already complicated story involving Oregon agriculture and local politics. ...
Randy Stapilus: Insiders reaped the rewards in this year's May primary
After all the primary campaign season drama this year, most of the Oregon results tended toward the familiar in both parties. And most races weren’t even close.
Investigating the Bible: What about weapons and waging war?
Oct. 7 last year, Hamas launched a deadly assault on Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets and sending a thousand terrorists across the border by air, pickup trucks, and motorcycles. With machine guns, they went door-to-door to Israeli homes, murdering entire families, including the elderly, children, babies and taking hostages. At an outdoor concert, they killed 260 youth. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “We are at war.”
Calendar of Quirk: Drop a coaster under this serving of fermented local Quirk
The local beer culture deserves a special Quirk brew. June 3 Corner chalkboard at Grain Station Brew Works (to the right of the bar) was created eight years ago, filled (mostly) and changed (occasionally), ...
Whatchamacolumn: First and last encounter with a sports legend
We landed in San Diego on Feb. 11, stopped at the gate, and only then saw the hulking figure of a man who sat just behind us the entire flight. I was momentarily speechless, but Michelle quickly blurted ...
Bridging political chasm on the ground in Oregon
Several Oregon chapters of Braver Angels, a national citizens’ movement working to unify a divided nation in the face of sharp ideological and affective disagreements, are collaborating on an effort to bridge Oregon’s gaping urban-rural divide.
Jamie & Tami Rowen: Louisiana reclassification restricts abortion pill access
The Louisiana Legislature approved a bill May 23 reclassifying the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol as “controlled, dangerous substances.”
Whatchamacolumn: Mostly boring primary election has a local spark of life
Although most federal and statewide races were contested in this week’s Oregon Primary Election, serving in the Oregon justice system or state Legislature appears to have lost its appeal to political ...
Barrett Rainey: A question for our times: We can, but should we?
While experts join us in fretting over the computerized exposure of hundreds of millions of our personal files — on Facebook and elsewhere — I have more fearful questions.
Investigating the Bible: ‘The good shepherd’: the Scriptures on sacrifice
May 27, 2024 is Memorial Day, honoring those American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in battle. Today remembers a few of those heroes whose stories are in Adam Makos’ books “A Higher Call” and “Devotion.”
Calendar of Quirk: Alpine Avenue: A mixed-use neighborhood with plenty of Quirk in common
The Quirk tour now wends down Alpine Avenue, that mélange of industrial and chic with iron-work “ALPINE” signs and girder-like structures, picnic tables, planters, public art, a large ...
Investigating the Bible: Scriptures dictate no mandatory retirement age
Red Skelton, a successful comedian in radio, film, and the early days of television, was the master of many humorous fictional characters and pantomime. In 1994, at 80 years old, he explained, “People always tell me, ‘You look good.’ There are three stages of life,” he said. “Youth, middle age, and ‘you look good’.” Someone quipped that old age is the metallic age: Silver in the hair, titanium in the knees, and lead in the pants.
Clare Pastore: Court weighs legality of banning public camping
About the writer: Clare Pastore, longtime professor at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, earned her bachelor’s degree at Colgate and law degree at Yale. A former ...
Winslow Myers: More light, less heat needed on our campuses
Civil disobedience, the willingness to break a law and endure the consequences for the sake of a greater moral good, enjoys a pedigree extending back through King’s civil rights movement, Gandhi’s passive resistance to India’s British colonizers, and even back to Thoreau, who went to jail for a night rather than pay a tax being used to fund the Mexican war of 1846-48.
