Starla Pointer: Reunion opens window on the soul
I have attended more high school reunions than almost anyone — a few of my own, but mostly reunions from other schools and previous eras. I’ve covered 25- and 30-year gatherings, along with ...
Elizabeth DeVisser: Celebrating dictators a slippery slope
“Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong.” A Patriot Prayer member displayed this slogan last Saturday, when the group, supported by white supremacists, held a rally in Portland. This person’s ideals ...
Jeb Bladine: Frustrating search for available house
A local family with five kids is trying anxiously to find housing. Members have a month to avoid becoming unwilling campers at a relative’s home. The parents still have faith something will surface, ...
Amitrajeet Batabyal: Breaking all the rules not what made America great
By AMITRAJEET BATABYALOf the Rochester Institute of Technology Nations sell goods and services to each other because this exchange is generally mutually beneficial. It’s easy to understand that ...
Eric Schuck: Soybeans, cherries tell sad trade tale
Current soybean pricing is one of those situations where the late Paul Harvey should jump in with, “and now you know the rest of the story …” It really is that weird. But simply because ...
Carla Canseco: Experiencing trauma of families torn apart
I am a Latina student at Linfield College who has traumatic personal experience with family separation. Though awareness of this U.S. immigration practice has just reached the surface within our society ...
Dr. Margot Kushel / West Coast a magnet for homeless
Editor's note: Dr. Margot Kushel serves as a professor at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School. She also maintains a clinical practice with the school's affiliated San Francisco ...
Jeb Bladine: Battles to maintain 'best suited' notices
Here’s your summer reading assignment: At least browse the Legal Notices on pages 5-6 in Section B of the News-Register. Today’s include a ballot measure, a property foreclosure, the sale ...
Worth Mathewson Make a difference: Buy a duck stamp
For those interested in the welfare of wildlife, there is an excellent opportunity available at any post office. For $25, one can buy a Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, commonly known as ...
Jeb Bladine: After street bond, right back to work
McMinnville transportation bond projects have and will create significant improvements in McMinnville traffic flow, but in just a few years, it could seem like an inadequate Band-Aid. It’s not for ...
Jeb Bladine: Multiple intents of new smoking law
In three weeks, smoking outdoors will be banned along Third Street in downtown McMinnville. The ban will extend from Adams to Johnson streets, plus 50 feet to the north and south. Enforcement should be ...
Tom Henderson: Literally shooting the messenger
Trump not behind newspaper shooting, but killer certainly could take encouragement
Thomas Hellie: Liberal arts education never more valuable
These are the last days of my final year as president of Linfield College. I am about to retire. But I haven’t stopped thinking, and at times worrying, about the future of American higher education. ...
Jeb Bladine: Parking structure once a better place
McMinnville has proclaimed the beginning of a “new life” for its downtown parking structure: an end to camping and loitering; a full clean-up; continuing enforcement for a new code of conduct. Reactions ...
James Van Nostrand: Coal and nuclear folly
By JAMES VAN NOSTRANDUniversity of West Virginia President Donald Trump recently ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take “immediate steps” to stop the closure of coal and nuclear power ...
