Susanne Sayles: Trip opens eyes to life’s simple truths
In the fall of 2016, I was offered the opportunity to take a group of high school leaders to the Dominican Republic as a representative of the Oregon Association of Student Councils. After a year and ...
Jeb Bladine: McCain peels back some Trump Teflon
The media often disdained Ronald Reagan as the “Teflon President,” citing bad decisions and poor government performance that didn’t conform to his popular public persona. Similarly, President ...
Dr. Elliot Lasson: Summer job becoming relic of past
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Jeb Bladine: Ghost of the ‘Gut’ lures us downtown
The ghost of the Dragging the Gut Festival must have wandered onto Highway 18 Tuesday morning as some kind of eerie apparition, luring that hapless semi-tractor convoy off its route and into downtown McMinnville. Reportedly ...
Scott Gibson: Unfood - The American quest for nutrition by pills
Americans have become enamored with nutrition by pill, as have many residents of other industrialized nations. Fish oil, vitamin E, vitamin C, coenzyme Q10, riboflavin, chromium, selenium and almost any ...
Jeb Bladine: A growing threat to our democracy
Hundreds of American newspapers, including the News-Register, have joined The Boston Globe this week in a national rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s continuous attack on the American media. Here’s ...
Jeb Bladine: Nutritious walnuts go best with music
Combining music with walnuts? I suppose it makes sense, but only in McMinnville. Five years ago today, a small crowd attended the inaugural Walnut City Music Festival. Few of those people will forget ...
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 ...
