Don’t let museum fall to pair coveting its carcass
The three key figures in a $25 million lawsuit filed last month in federal court — plaintiff Steve Down and defendants Paul R. Peterson and J.W. Millegan — share certain similarities. They ...
DeVos visit seen as honor for deserving district and school
Neither protests nor counter-protests nor gloom of day nor Oregon drizzle stayed U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from swift completion of her appointed rounds on a wet McMinnville Wednesday. We ...
Sensible gun control action is long overdue
On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza used a rapid-fire semi-automatic rifle to kill his mother, then gun down 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On June 12, 2016, Omar ...
Economic development at the county could use consistency
Yamhill County has yet to come up with a economic development strategy that’s stuck. But it’s not for lack of effort. Five years ago, the county budget committee urged commissioners to better ...
Task force unlikely to hit on better solution than churches
Merchants don’t feel the McMinnville City Council has done enough to control disruptive downtown behavior, serving to send shoppers packing. In response, the council has asked a task force to spend ...
Parking poses a challenge, but it's not insurmountable
Eventually, McMinnville is going to have to acquire a suitable site for a second downtown parking structure and raise the money to fund construction. Already, the Atticus Hotel and Allegory Brewery are ...
Small steps make some progress in addressing housing issue
The old saying goes, “It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.” In McMinnville’s case, city officials have broken out the candles, but are still stumbling around in the ...
Linfield facing challenges, but seems poised to prevail
America’s private four-year colleges have been buffeted by gale force winds of change. They face the risk of increasing marginalization, as a dwindling number of college graduates pursue a proliferating ...
Basic planning and preparation make big difference in a crisis
Recognition of September as Emergency Preparedness Month this year is met with myriad scenes of destruction, caused primarily by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Though the storms struck the other side of ...
Congress now last resort for nation’s Dreamers
Former President Barack Obama was the architect of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, designed to grant a safe haven to children who didn’t enter the U.S. of their own volition and ...
Lack of compromise on all sides fueling increased wildfire activity
The Gorge ablaze might be the defining image of this year’s fire season, at least in our neck of the woods. We’re experiencing yet another devastating batch of forest fires this season, and ...
Lodging tax for roads worth a look, if legal
No prudent office-holder plunges blindly forward with a new tax proposal. But Yamhill County Commissioners Stan Primozich and Rick Olson seem well justified in their desire to place a transient lodging ...
Crusade for local immigration enforcement is self-defeating
The next time there is a community theater production of “Les Misérables,” state Rep. Mike Nearman would make a splendid Inspector Javert. Nearman, like Javert, is fixated on the letter ...
Contention, compromise led to Mac sign ordinance
In McMinnville, aesthetics matter. We hold dearly the imagery of rolling vineyard hills, a tree-lined downtown historic district, the iconic Spruce Goose looking down from a gleaming glass facade, and ...
McMinnville’s can-do attitude paying big dividends these days
Like virtually every other place on the planet, McMinnville has experienced plenty of boom and bust cycles over the years. But to the community’s credit, it has never been content to ease back and ...
