Sometimes it’s important to write a column about something you’re pretty sure isn’t going to happen. In this case, that thing is war with Iran, which Donald Trump clearly doesn’t want, and whi…
If Winston Churchill was alive today he would caution the youth of Morrow County planning a climate strike, “The farther backward you look, the farther forward you see.”
I oppose granting driver’s licenses to “undocumented residents.” Government documents given to illegal aliens tend to legitimize their presence. We absolutely should not encourage, let alone a…
Recent education rallies raise important questions about our K-12 education system. Despite years of growing frustration, little progress has been made. This is due, in large part, to the misi…
Friday's East Oregonian had an article about our legislators wanting to keep half of the Oregon kicker to fix some highways and bridges. Whoa, does anyone remember when Oregon passed a total o…
What a shock it was to find out that the liberal supermajority again misled the GOP in Oregon. Time and time again, the GOP is misled, and time and time again, they fall for the lies of the le…
My colleague David Bornstein points out that a lot of American journalism is based on a mistaken theory of change. That theory is: The world will get better when we show where things have gone…
The U.S. Forest Service has decided to build a wall of permits and fees to dramatically reduce public access to wilderness trailheads in the Deschutes and Willamette national forests.
A tip of the hat to the Pendleton Underground Tours on their 30th anniversary. Memories and stories about the popular tourist attraction abound.
At first glance, it is a bit difficult to aptly describe the latest initiative by the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners.
Several states are passing legislation to tightly control women’s reproductive health and choices. Our own legislature has periodic rumblings along these lines.
Unable to reach a trade deal with China and end punishing tariffs, President Trump last week promised American farmers and ranchers a new round of aid as the protracted trade battle intensified.
One of the common themes you heard last week as teachers across Oregon rallied for a proposed tax on business that’s projected to raise $1 billion a year for K-12 schools was this: It’s not ab…
There was a school of thought that said former Vice President Joe Biden would begin to sink in the polls the moment he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden…
As a pear grower in Hood River, and the only full-time farmer currently in the Oregon Legislature, I’ve faced solving agricultural challenges throughout my career. I understand the value of en…
Oregon voters watched Monday as political drama took center stage in Salem when Republican members of the Senate returned after a weeklong walkout.
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The state of Iowa contains 55,869.36 square miles, 2,987,345 humans, and 16,900,000 hogs. That works out to 52.4 humans per square mile and 302 hogs per square mile, or roughly six hogs per pe…
Spreading positivity. Seems like a good goal and one we should all strive for, and an antidote to the ugliness that can creep in.
Economists, reports Politico, are fleeing the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service. Six of them resigned on a single day last month. The reason? They are feeling persecuted for p…
Good news — Molly Gloss is coming to town. Or rather, coming back. Six years ago, in May 2013, Gloss kicked off the First Draft Writers’ Series, reading to a standing-room-only crowd in the Pr…
Let’s take stock of the progress of the gray wolf’s recovery in the Lower 48 states, shall we?
It is time, Oregon, that we recall all of our senators and representatives who supposedly represent Oregon but appear to be more interested in their own thoughts rather than the thoughts of al…
I would like to thank everyone involved in the Community Park cleanup on May 9. I both appreciated and was appalled by Phil Wright’s reporting of the event.
Much attention has been paid to see-sawing U.S.-China negotiations over a bilateral trade agreement. But a U.S. trade agreement with Japan is even more essential for us wheat producers in the …
You don’t have to search very far across the wide media landscape to find evidence newspapers are in trouble. Declining circulation and vanishing advertising all paint a depressing picture for…
When a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in California, 60-year-old Lori Gilbert Kaye jumped between the shooter and the rabbi. She was killed, but the rabbi credits her with saving his life.
A tip of the hat to the new historical marker slated for Pendleton’s Main Street to pay tribute to the Triple Nickles.
For more than two years, Democrats and their media friends have confidently insisted the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump (a) would crash and burn; or (b) benefits only the few; or (c…
I am dismayed at Sen. Bill Hansell’s participation in the partisan walkout in the state Senate this week intended to delay the passage of HB 3427. Such flagrant disregard for carrying out the …
It should come as no surprise that the dairy industry drives a large portion of the Northwest agricultural economy.
The Oregon Senate passed a bill that would see the state join the National Popular Vote Compact, delegating its electoral votes in the presidential election to the winner of the popular vote r…
At his contentious hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr dropped a big hint about his investigation into the conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation.
Regarding the curious editorial endorsing James Nash for the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, I am puzzled by the description of Mr. Nash as a hunter. I am a lifelong Oregonian. I know hun…
We encourage Morrow County voters to choose Debbie Radie for Port of Morrow Commissioner.
Tradition is alive and well in Pendleton. This was reaffirmed with the recent vote of the city council giving the city manager a 3% cost of living (COLA) pay raise. Elected officials have a tr…
Gov. Kate Brown’s nomination of Enterprise rancher and big game hunter James Nash to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission shouldn’t be controversial.
I had to walk. It had been a long week and I needed the spring air to brush up against me and the breeze to blow over me — maybe even through me. I needed the first calf heifers to watch me ma…