Back, and Forth: New 'Calendar of Quirk' coming in the new year
Consider the Quirk around us: The Bigfoot of Whiteson, “Fred’s Old Fashioned Garage” and City Park’s mixed-up historical signs. Starting with our e-edition of Jan. 3, we’ll ...
Investigating The Bible: The meaning behind the words
Cultures give vastly different meanings to common words. The Shilluk people in Sudan say a stingy person has a big heart and a generous person has a small heart. This seems illogical until we understand their reasoning: A selfish person never shares with others and has a heart that grows big with possessions, whereas a person who always gives to others has little left and therefore has a tiny heart.
Whatchamacolumn: For Linfield, a time of transformation
It’s transformation time at Linfield University, where prolonged years of turmoil are evolving into a series of institutional and operational changes. But turbulence continues to bubble beneath the ...
Guest Commentary: Missed communication could be the death of us
By BARRETT RAINEY Retired broadcast journalist Many, many years ago, the only uncle I ever had told me to get into mass communication when I grew up. He said this was the “coming field” ...
Leland Thoburn: The first freedom
Across the world we’re hearing calls for a marriage between government and religion. In many countries, this is neither new nor surprising. To hear these calls in the United States is another matter. We ...
Eric Schuck: Review of resume prompts mid-career reflection
Was it restlessness? Curiosity? Whether the choice flowed from one, both or neither is immaterial now. I updated my resume. Admittedly, that’s not a terribly radical action for most people. But ...
Whatchamacolumn: Finding the best holiday message
“Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.” We often join those sentiments into one greeting about two very different celebrations: One observes the birth of Christ augmented by the human warmth ...
Back, and Forth: A bright season, guided by 8s
In 1978, as a cynical college sophomore, I wrote something dour about Christmas decorations. As Bob Dylan once mused, “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” It had something ...
PeaceVoice: Israeli intelligence failure is worse than first thought
By MEL GURTOV Of Portland State University It turns out that more than a year before the Hamas attack, Israeli intelligence secured multiple documentations providing a detailed account of what Hamas ...
The Conversation: Learn to recognize hallmarks of online disinformation ploys
H. COLLEEN SINCLAIR Of Louisiana State University Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not. Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading ...
Taking a quantum leap into a brave new world
Let’s say for a moment you are a leaf. The sun is out, and you are working on doing that magical thing that leaves do — take sunlight and use it to grab carbon dioxide out of the air and make ...
Whatchamacolumn: It does, after all, take a community
Some have urged us to keep reminding readers about changes shaping up for the News-Register — they include variations in space, time, frequency, dimension and, arguably, “state of matter.” Beginning ...
Back, and Forth: Author reflects on four decades in the vineyard
“I’m optimistic about Brand Oregon,” said Allen Holstein, 43-year veteran of vineyard management and winemaking in Dundee. He spoke recently at Linfield University’s Nicholson ...
The Conversation: For the Osage Nation, the betrayal yet lingers
Editor's note: This article contains plot spoilers of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” By SHANNON TOLL Of the University of Dayton “The sheriff disguised her death as whiskey ...
Birds' brainpower a wonder to behold
April 15 was a special day during our years living in a remote corner of Alaska. As we anxiously awaited spring, we rushed to the post office to file our taxes. But much more importantly, it was the day ...
