Ceremony opens 175-unit affordable housing complex in McMinnville

Drumming and singing by members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde opened the Stratus Village ribbon-cutting Tuesday afternoon. They were there to celebrate the tribe’s partnership in the ...

Commentary

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Growing up, food randomly appeared and disappeared in my grandmother’s kitchen.

Editorials

Property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes and most other governmental taxes have one crucial element in common. They are based on percentage rates applied to ever-rising dollar volumes. That serves to ...

So many national and international threats hanging over the heard of humanity these days seem so complex and distant as to defy meaningful impact at the local level. Fortunately, though, there is at least ...

By the turn of the 21st century, McMinnville realized its treasured downtown Third Street spine would need extensive below-ground renovation in the coming years. It also knew that would logically dictate ...

When newsroom e-mail boxes begin filling up with our-side congratulatory and their-side condemnatory press releases from Ashley Kuenzi, Jill Bakken, Mack Smith and Elizabeth Cronen, we never fail to offer ...

Oregon broke new environmental ground 55 years ago with the bottle bill. It was the national pilot for a new generation of “extended producer responsibility” measures, designed to force producers ...

Letters

The News-Register welcomes written opinions about issues of public interest and about the content of this newspaper. Letters from non-local writers are accepted only if they focus on local issues. This ...

Proceed with care Yes, McMinnville’s downtown needs major infrastructure work — and sooner rather than later. However, government and civic leaders need to understand the potential consequences ...

All talk, no action I was reading about Mayor Morris’ new program, “We care about kids.” I hope it will be a program of action, not just words. Beyond the staged photo op with the mayor ...

So much to say There’s so much to talk about. First, a rare commendation to the News-Register for a most excellent editorial, “Bipartisanship has moment in most self-serving of ways.” ...

Fiscal ruin Trump’s policies are cruel, immoral and fiscally suicidal. Last year, his Big Bad Bill added $2.23 trillion to our national debt, bringing it to $38.86 trillion. Our debt now equals ...

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