The Conversation: Why Fitzgerald's 'Gatsby,' but not Parrott's 'Ex-Wife'
By MARSHA GORDON Of North Carolina State University In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby.” Four years later, Ursula Parrott published her first novel, “Ex-Wife.” I ...
Eric Schuck: Extra large coffee an unexpected lesson in privilege
As I write these words, I am staring across my desk at a 24-ounce Italian-roast drip coffee with an 8-ounce side of half-and-half. It is a positively Ron Swanson-esque dose of caffeine. And while most ...
The Conversation: Space junk accumulating on the moon and in orbit
By CHRIS IMPEY Of the University of Arizona There’s a lot of trash on the moon right now, including nearly 100 bags of human waste. And with countries around the globe traveling there as capability ...
Whatchamacolumn: Uncertain outcome for 'war of survival'
It’s impossible to overstate the horror felt toward this week’s slaughter of Israeli citizens by Hamas forces from Gaza. It’s almost equally sad to contemplate the impending deaths of ...
Kirby Neumann-Rea: Gaza and the shattered vase
In the Middle East, no one is ever far from war. As I think of friends in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, threatened by Hamas, and in the north of Israel, threatened by Hezbollah, I am unsure how to respond to ...
Nelia Omelchenko: Growing up in war zone full of change, challenges
Nights with air raids, days with power cuts. Classes in basements, soldiers in the street. Those were just some of the changes we felt in Ukraine, amid the sorrow and destruction of a full-scale Russian ...
Whatchamacolumn: Another chapter in Cashman shootout
We weren’t surprised that Dillan and Sarah Cashman filed a tort claim notice to protect their rights to sue McMinnville Police Department and Yamhill County over the July 2022 exchange of gunfire ...
Back, and Forth: The confusion of keeping tech etiquette in context
“Never use your phone on speaker in public places.” That’s the one rule I can totally agree with in the supposed “new rules of telephone etiquette.” And I saw it violated ...
Emma Miller Grock: C is for cooperative
When we first visited McMinnville Playschool, the vibe hooked me. The room was a rainbow hodgepodge packed with objects of small child fascination. A cooperative preschool. The notion was so enchantingly ...
Whatchamacolumn: Enforce speeding, plus intersections
Local residents wasted no time this month advising McMinnville Police Department about where to focus new speed enforcement efforts. State grants are helping MPD finance enhanced enforcement of laws related ...
Back, and Forth: The Northern Lights one of Upper Peninsula's splendors
A week’s vacation proved no less than luminescent. I was able to take eight days and travel to the family place on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my mother’s birth territory, which holds ...
The Conversation: Ruling trims protection for remaining U.S. wetlands
By ALBERT LIN Of the University of California at Davis The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal protection encompasses only those wetlands directly adjoining rivers, lakes and ...
Susan Shaw: A struggle for equality at the pulpit
During its two-day annual meeting earlier held over the summer, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the ouster of its largest congregation over its ordination of women and initiated a process to ...
Whatchamacolumn: America must stop trilateral drug trade
Americans were shocked last week when a 1-year-old child died from exposure to fentanyl kept under a nap mat at a New York City nursery. Investigators found a kilo (2.2 pounds) of fentanyl, enough to produce ...
