Jeb Bladine: Tax time cometh, with abundant data
It’s almost property tax time. Tuesday, under the direction of Assessor and Tax Collector Derrick Wharff, Yamhill County will mail 46,600 tax statements seeking payment of $151.5 million from county ...
Jon Sweetman: Bestow love on a wetland; help save the environment
By JON SWEETMAN Of Penn State University Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water or feature flooded or waterlogged soils. They can remain in a flooded state either seasonally or year-round. Whether ...
Sylla McClellan: A dollar gone to Amazon is a dollar gone for good
By SYLLA McCLELLAN Owner of Third Street Books The holiday shopping season is right around the corner. With the pandemic waning, fundraising events are back in full force. Small businesses ...
Carolyn McCloskey: Dreamers have always drive this community we all love
By CAROLYN McCLOSKEY An advocate for the community “I Have a Dream” is the beautiful song Allison Bean sings at the beginning of the musical “Mamma Mia!,” which so many of ...
Rich Leipfert: Local fire district merger best way to keep community safe
During my 15 years as fire chief for the city of McMinnville, my goal has been to keep the community safe with the help of highly trained and experienced fire and ambulance staff and well-resourced ...
Jeb Bladine: Stiff drinks lead to stiff DUI penalties
We may live in “wine country,” but penalties for “driving under the influence of intoxicants” are the same here as throughout Oregon: Stiff! That one-word analysis is confirmed ...
Back, and Forth: A timeless mural gets a new unveiling from
You want local color? Look around. Many large-scale murals have caught our attention in recent months. You could say Yamhill County is crawling with walls featuring large and vivid images. This has been ...
Tom Henderson: The errors of our ways
‘The newspaper regrets the error.” Newspaper corrections traditionally end with words to that effect, and I like that phrase. Some people see corrections and apologies from a newspaper as ...
Peralta: No cause to lead way on psilocybin therapy
By SAL PERALTAWard 1 McMinnville City Councilor I wanted to take a moment to respond to Yamhill County Commissioner Casey Kulla’s recent Viewpoints cover, which expressed his opinion, both as a ...
Back, and Forth: quirk helps define community, though somet
Let’s talk again about quirk, which our localities have aplenty. I wrote about it a few weeks ago, quirk meaning elements of local culture that you might not find anywhere else, elements that are ...
Meador: A dangerous gift
Compromise perceived as failure when both sides irrevocably believe they, and only they, hold the moral high ground
Bladine: Chemical weapons kill 70K Americans
Suppose that militarized crime syndicates in Mexico are manufacturing chemical weapons for delivery to launch points in the United States, where they are deployed to kill an estimated 70,000 Americans ...
Susan Brink: Baby talk spoken here — and everywhere
When most of us see an infant, we shamelessly slip into baby talk: Whooose a prettee baabee? Such a cuutiee. Our speech gets smoother, slower, higher pitched and sing-songy. Researchers call this ...
Jeb Bladine: Local debate drawn to downtown hotels
Full disclosure: The writer has a financial interest in this subject. Our family and newspaper company own two of three Third Street buildings that developers propose to buy, tear down, and replace with ...
A.R. Siders and Katherine Mach: As coastal flooding worsens, cities beating strategic retreat
By A.R. SIDERS Of the University of Delaware And KATHERINE MACH Of the University of Miami When the tide gets exceptionally high in Charleston, South Carolina, coastal streets start to run ...
