Gary Conkling: Will college football make the leap to pro?
Conference realignment, the transfer portal and compensation for athletes have rushed college football closer to a Saturday version of professional football. Reaching that dubious end zone may only be ...
Whatchamacolumn: Head-scratching Medicare choices
**Editor’s Note: Dec. 15 is an application deadline to enroll for new Medicare services under the Affordable Care Act. However, the deadline to change below-described plans for MedAdvantage coverage ...
The Conversation: New cardinals promise to alter course of Catholicism
By JOANNE PIERCE Of Holy Cross College On Sept. 30, Pope Francis swore in 21 clergy to the College of Cardinals at an assembly known as a consistory. It is the ninth consistory ceremony Francis ...
The Conversation: Peace Prize winner a fearless crusader for women
By PARDIS MAHDAVI Of the University of La Verne ‘Woman, Life, Freedom,” the slogan adopted by Iranians to protest the unjust death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is, according to the Norwegian ...
Shop Local: As holidays approach, it’s time to do your part
The holiday season is right around the corner and it comes with great news. According to a Gallup survey, 74% of holiday shoppers said they expect to pay about the same amount or more on holiday gifts ...
Back, and Forth: In Willamina, creative talents and spirit of community converge
Sampling four of the nine stops on the Coastal Hills Art Tour on Nov. 11 added layers to my appreciation for Willamina, a community I have gradually been getting to know. The quilt show was just the starter; ...
The Conversation: A circular path to efficient traffic flow
By DEOGRATIAS EUSTACE Of the University of Dayton If you live on the East Coast, you may have driven through roundabouts in your neighborhood countless times. Farther west, you may never yet have ...
Scott Gibson: Better life through chemistry comes at confounding price
We are living in an extraordinary time of advances in medical therapy. Immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment, with control and even cures for tumors that would have been rapidly fatal ...
Whatchamacolumn: Car crash boosts development plans
Belated thanks to the 80-year-old driver who, in June, accidentally slammed through a back wall of the county Planning Department building at Fourth and Ford streets. You were unidentified in the news, ...
The Conversation: Is there any realistic hope of restoring romance of flying?
By CHRISTOPHER SCHABERGOf Washington University Amelia Earhart broke a transcontinental speed record 90 years ago, in July 1933, by flying her signature red Lockheed Vega from Los Angeles to New Jersey ...
The Conversation: Green Revolution a warning, not a world hunger solution
By GLENN DAVIS STONE Of Sweet Briar College Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there is new cause for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather ...
Leland Thoburn: Under siege by disinformation, our minds have become a battlefield
In 1979, a Mexican brewer introduced Corona beer to the U.S. Sales grew steadily until 1987, then plummeted. The brewer investigated and found a rival distributor had been spreading a rumor that Corona’s ...
Whatchamacolumn: Understanding the taxation 'black box'
Break out the checkbooks, it’s property tax time! The basics: Taxes are limited to $5 per $1,000 valuation for education, $10 per $1,000 for general government, plus added levies for voter-approved ...
Back, and Forth: Telling Middle East story takes may voices, views
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Israel-Gaza situation. I cited schools that enroll a mix of Jewish and Arab students as something that might inspire hope in the otherwise bleak and tragic landscape around ...
PeaceVoice: Replacement theory a matter of projection
The psychological phenomenon known as projection is nowhere as glaring as with white nationalists, most of whom are direct descendants of people who invaded and occupied someone else’s land, ...
