Cyrus Javadi: Assault on vote by mail has no grounding in fact
Not long after I announced for state representative in 2022, I found myself at Arnie’s, on Main Street in Warrenton, making my case to the Clatsop County Republican Party faithful.
Russell Mark: Hope is the healer that means the most
Hope is a curious thing. It is often hard-won, sometimes late in arriving, and rarely linear.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump creates new enemies at every turn
It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era.
Jeb Bladine: 'Ten pounds of confusion in a five-pound box'
Kudos to the city of McMinnville and McMinnville Industrial Promotions (MIP) for their Wednesday night performance of a civics lesson that cut tortuously close to what’s wrong with government in ...
Investigating the Bible: Keys to success
Comedian Carol Burnett should like the Willamette Valley. Throughout her long career, she believed rain always brought her success. Starting in grammar school, whenever she took a test and it was raining, ...
Quirk of the Week: Been there, Dundee that
Last week’s news story about folks in Dundee protesting a certain fast-food chain development in town came down to this: what qualities give Dundee its character? What makes it unique? And, yes, ...
Quirk of the Week: All about eaves
Porches and carports are two underappreciated domestic spaces. A carport is not just a poor man’s garage, and a porch can be more than a covered entry. Both can do much to project a home’s ...
Jeb Bladine: 2026 is showtime for Westsider Trail supporters
In 2026 — 14 years later — it’s showtime for Yamhelas Westsider Trail supporters. County voters could face three trail-related ballot measures in November, and those issues will weigh ...
Jonah Goldberg: News flash: He never had any real plan
When President Trump spoke at the Saudi Future Investment Initiative last Friday, he offered a pristine example of what he calls “the weave.” What detractors take for incontinent verbal rambling is, in his own telling, genius-level embroidery of a rhetorical mosaic.
Investigating the Bible: The foundation of joy
Author Lucie Winborne, in her column “Strange But True,” wrote about Margaret Dixon, a Scottish criminal hanged in 1753. Amazingly, just a few hours later she climbed out of her coffin quite ...
Monica Duffy Toft: Overconfidence is how today's wars are lost
Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are most commonly lost in the instigators’ minds — when they misread what they and their adversaries can do, when they substitute confidence for comprehension, when they mistake the last war for the next one.
Jonah Goldberg: Team Trump had to start war to learn how economy works
Early Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore, he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t reopened by Monday evening.
Jeb Bladine: Partisan bombast threatens need for U.S. unity
Iran seems content to take more military blows, randomly hurl its remaining missiles at surrounding nations, maintain a stranglehold on oil shipment through the Strait of Hormuz, and monitor the deterioration ...
Investigating the Bible: There’s nothing like success
On Feb. 19, the U.S. women’s hockey team defeated Canada to win the gold medal. Three days later, the U.S. men’s hockey team defeated Canada in overtime. Jack Hughes, his mouth missing ...
