Governor displays depraved indifference

By BRIDGET BARTON Oregon Transformation Newsletter Almost everyone in America has seen the movie “Titanic” at least once. Some of the most unnerving scenes feature people fighting over who ...

Paige Matthews: Community critically as virus isolates us

To begin, I will say something not very novel: This is a hard season.  We know it, we’ve read it, we feel it. And even now, a year into a global pandemic, we still need to talk about ...

Letter to readers: Direct contact helps navigate deadline

Among the many changes government made due to the COVID-19 pandemic was the county’s handling of public comment it receives for each week’s meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. The ...

Oregon GOP makes waves with 'false flag' allegation

Editor's Note: The following resolution, adopted by the Oregon Republican Party on Jan. 19, has been stirring controversy across the country. We are reproducing it here without editorial comment. Resolution ...

Jeb Bladine: Simple questions; complex answers

Simple questions; complex answers It’s no surprise that amidst a still-raging pandemic surrounded by still-poison politics, questions are easy to spot, but answers are complex and elusive. Oregonians ...

Where was the outrage over Portland violence?

By BILL HALLRetired Naval Veteran Although not at all surprised by the response to the latest events that unfolded in Salem and D.C., as submitted to the paper by various professors, editors, writers and ...

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Davis and Gunn: Never too early to plant a local vegetable garden

The days are slowly getting longer and warmer — enough so that we will soon see the primrose and daffodil blooming. A garden puts you in the natural cycle of growth and change, so the first signs ...

Jeb Bladine: Quashing pandemic must be top priority

Doors have opened to the Biden Administration, with promises for more transparency and honesty in communications about government plans and performance. Circumstances call for a short honeymoon and a prolonged ...

Starrett peddling potentially fatal information

By DAN DALE Retired Emergency Room Physician   Misinformation can kill. I am specifically referring to the misinformation and pseudoscience Mary Starrett has used, and continues to use, to form ...

Publish something that saves someone

  I, Christina Malae, am the victim left unnamed the in Feb. 19 and Nov. 19 articles stemming from trauma I endured from 2008 to 2019 at the hands of my now ex-husband, but resoundingly named ...

Save us from an indifference to truth

By STEVE RUTLEDGE Classical Studies Professor There is perhaps no greater symbol of two worlds colliding than that of Christ before Pilate. The meeting has been dissected and analyzed for millennia. We ...

Meador: Removing monuments erases the false glory, not the history

I was doing a crossword puzzle the other day, a pastime I’ve enjoyed since I was a teenager. I am accustomed to seeing filler clues, those very common sequences of letters occurring in many ...

Casey Kulla: Nearman has forfeited right to hold public office

By CASEY KULLA Yamhill County Commissioner I take my oath of office seriously. I feel strongly that elected officials should try their darndest to work together, to act in a civil manner, to ...

Tom Henderson: Protest, even if violent, not same as insurrection

By TOM HENDERSON Independent Northwest Journalist State Rep. Ron Noble, bless his heart, wants to be a statesman. He wants to add a voice of sobriety and reason. “We are seeing an assault ...

Sherri Yeager: Take a stand for truth, country and democracy

By SHERRI YEAGER Retired History Professor An open letter to elected Republican officials, local, state and federal: I am a resident of McMinnville, a retired 25-year professor of U.S. history and politics. ...

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