Letters to the Editor: April 28, 2023
Don’t invite chaos Last September, Newberg students were stranded for hours waiting for school buses, picked up by buses so crowded they had to sit on the floor, and plagued by last-minute route ...
Letters to the Editor: April 21, 2023
Safety first We deserve to have a safe and reliable fire service. We deserve assurance that an ambulance or a fire engine will be immediately available to respond when we call 9-1-1. Why should our paramedics ...
Letters to the Editor: April 14, 2023
Workable solution I am excited about the opportunity to vote for the new special fire district in May. I moved to McMinnville with my young family six years ago. It was easy to fall in love with the ...
Letters to the Editor: April 7, 2023
A mission unheeded After reading about the county parks board in Tuesday’s News-Register (“Members of county parks board speak out”), it seems to me that the members of our county board ...
Letters to the Editor: March 31, 2023
Election intimidation Calling names, filing workplace complaints and promoting conspiracies has become commonplace in Yamhill County. A blogger who promotes division and extremism has attacked several ...
Letters to the Editor: March 24, 2023
Bending the rules? I understand the state Department of Environmental Quality has been reviewing, and may have approved, a revised stormwater pond on a tax lot east of the Riverbend Landfill’s permitted ...
Letters to the Editor: March 17, 2023
Wrong on all counts This letter is my opinion on the News-Register article of Feb. 10 about the Yamhill County commissioners exempting themselves from the rule of law on harassment. They decided harassment ...
Letters to the Editor: March 10, 2023
No to Gwendolyn As young graduates, we moved to tiny McMinnville in 1978 for our first jobs and soon welcomed children. We discovered that this little town was the perfect place to raise our family, so ...
Letters to the editor: March 3, 2023
Taxation without service I don’t object to paying taxes for government services I and other residents benefit from. I do object to the government collecting our tax money for services it is not ...
Letters to the editor: February 24, 2023
Looking to DeSantis I was disappointed to see another Viewpoints issue that did not include even a hint of the conservative viewpoint. The article about extremism only included examples of violence caused ...
Letters to the editor: February 17, 2023
No to demolition Our McMinnville downtown is designated a National Historic District|. That provides benefits to the community and the property owners, but comes with certain preservation expectations ...
Letters to the editor: February 10, 2023
Common courtesy I am addressing the uninvited, unanticipated window-rattling booms we have all been experiencing over the past few months. I distinguish this from Fourth of July blasts, which we can at ...
Letters to the editor: February 3, 2023
Work for keep The conversation about what to do about homeless people in McMinnville, being driv- en by Mayor Remy Drabkin, has the poten- tial to turn our town into a deadly ghetto like Portland. Adding ...
Letters to the Editor: January 27, 2023
Taxing concerns How do we know that the fire district merger is popular with people who live in Mac? This is a question I’ve been trying to answer for several months. I think the idea of improving ...
Letters to the Editor: Jan. 20, 2023
Unnecessary risk If the litmus test for preserving a historic building is whether or not it would provide more revenue than a six-story luxury hotel, then every historic building on Third Street would ...
