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Eric Schuck: Interest rates raise red flag we can't afford to shrug off

... particularly nasty sort of inflation. Additionally, the potential extension of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which ballooned federal deficits and raised the federal debt by almost $4 trillion, even before ...

 
Ken Dollinger: A life-long love affair with local newspapers

... After discharge in 1970, I returned to West Texas State and finished my journalism degree. Newspaper jobs were scarce and candidates were plentiful. So I took corporate communication positions first with a ...

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 7, 2025

... humanitarian and military aid program. Never mind that Americans might starve or freeze or lose their jobs, or that China might swoop in to fill the funding gaps we’ve left in foreign lands. Our supreme ...

 
Richard C. "Dick" Phillips 1949 - 2025

... Mailing and Distribution Manager, a job where he chased the customers’ bundles of mail and printed jobs. He excelled at the logistics of printing and distribution. Ocean-going container loads of printed catalogues ...
Starla Pointer/News-Register##Doreen Wright, seated, and her children, Allan Wright and Patti Jeanfaivre, have closed Alpine Dry Cleaners in McMinnville. Doreen and the late Jack Wright started the business in 1980. Alpine did business in the shopping center now occupied by Goodwill and other businesses until 1992, then moved into the 19th and Baker location.

 
Longtime dry cleaner closes doors

... Sacramento, California, and Seattle, Washington. He later ran a quarry and dump trucks. She had held jobs at Oregon Mutual Insurance, Rutherford’s Ben Franklin store and the pharmacy at the old hospital ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##During one of their Thursday gatherings at Bob Lunt’s house, carvers work on their wood projects. From left are Tim Wahlberg, Forrest Peterson, Lunt and Ralph Juda. As they whittle, they talk about their lives and come up with solutions to local and world problems.

 
Stopping By: Carving Quartet

... they’re showing me.” But Wahlberg is a good example, as well, Juda said. “He lays out his jobs so neatly.” While some carvers work from photos and others from memory or imagination, Wahlberg ...

 
Scott Gibson: Trump love affair with tariffs could end up wielding havoc

A key question facing Americans as the second Trump administration looms is this — for what purpose does Donald Trump see tariffs?

 

Whatchamacolumn: City budget transparency faces information overload

... trying to analyze the huge array of details about gathering and spending $135 million. One of my first jobs — in 1965-66, before pocket calculators existed — included manual addition on long columns ...
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Randy Stapilus: What turned the 5th blue? Anatomy of a House flip

... dominant county, Clackamas, did not shift further Democratic, but still preferred Democrats for all top jobs, including the presidency. Its voters also ousted Republican Tootie Smith from the county commission ...

 
Norman C. Becker 1929 - 2024

... bonds. Norm began his employment history at age seven with a Coney Island concession. He pursued a variety of jobs during his school years, which permitted him to graduate from Brooklyn College and New York University. ...

 
Barrett Rainey: It takes shared commitment to foster renewal in America

What will we be like — what will this nation be like — on the other side?

Rusty Rae/News-Register##Evergreen museum CEO Scot Laney stands with his favorite plane, a Skyraider used in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Laney, named CEO in August, wants everyone in Yamhill County to come to the museum to see the rare and historic aircraft and space vehicles.

 
Stopping By: Stories of flight

Evergreen’s new CEO is an advocate for education, and the people behind the planes

 
It was a year of openings, accolades, evolving plans and changing leadership

... however, had applauded the plans, saying the hotel would bring needed lodging for tourists as well as jobs for local people. Another large hotel project is moving ahead in Dundee. * News-Register publisher ...

 
Brier Dudley: News deserts still expanding according to latest report

This isn’t what you want to hear in a presidential election year, but 55 million Americans now have little to no local news coverage where they live.

 

McMinnville man back in court for theft charges

... regular citizen trying to make a living and raise my two daughters,” he said, adding construction jobs have been few and far between. “He came to my residence and took over $10,000, which is how I ...
Starla Pointer/News-Register##Mark Blegan speaks to campus and community members at an event in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall during his interview visit to Linfield University in November. One of four finalists who visited campus, the Wisconsin man has been named the school’s new president. He will start July 1, 2025.

 
Liberal arts right fit for new Linfield leader

... “look at the market” — what students want and which career areas will offer quality jobs when they graduate – in order to build more distinctive programs, he said. Nowadays, he said, ...

 
Mitchel (Mitch) Rohse 1943 - 2024

... a hot air balloon and continued adventuring together for the next 45 years. In 1983, they quit their jobs to backpack for six months around New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Southeast Asia. During that trip, ...
Starla Pointer/News-Register##Veronica Kim of Portland, left, and Esther Cho of West Linn talk with Lois and Dave Cho at the CHO Wines table. Kim and Esther Cho said they came to McMinnville for Friendsgiving for the second time because they enjoy “the convivial spirit of the small producers, who are all friends.”

 
Discoveries in a bottle: Wine lovers find friends at holiday event

... “We’re all trying to do as much as we can on our own; some of us also make wine for others or have other jobs. We like to work together to showcase our wine.” McClellan has made wine for other wineries and ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Electrician Kevin Simpson and his wife, Becky Simpson, own Simpson Electrical, which has just added fireplace and heating work to its list of services. The company also plans to offer a chore service to handle small jobs for homeowners, such as changing light bulbs or retrieving things from storage.

 
Simpson Electrical expands services

... check on systems. The expansion into hearth and HVAC will allow the company to offer more living-wage jobs, Simpson added. For instance, he could add an employee to do chimney sweeping part of the time and chores ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##Chelsea Marr, publisher of the Columbia Gorge News, responds during a Q&A session after a screening of the documentary “For the Record” at Linfield University. Other panelists were, from left, Dr. Jennifer Rauch, chair of the Linfield Journalism and Media Studies program, Heather Courtney, filmmaker; and Laurie Ezzell Brown, former editor of the Canadian Record.

 
‘For the Record’ film serves as warning to hometown papers

... I’m making a difference.’ That’s something you don’t get from a lot of other jobs and they brought tears to my eyes, because that’s why I published the newspaper for 40 years. ...
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