A tip of the hat to local police agencies for stepping up time and again to make big events safer.
The Donald certainly was not the first presidential candidate to realize that the historical and deeply ingrained racism and bigotry in our country could be tapped into for political purposes.…
Bill Currier, chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, wants to recall Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat. If Brown showed contempt for limits of the state constitution by abusing her power as govern…
The incident had all the earmarks of a daring rescue. A woman fell off a cliff. A group of emergency responders just happened to be near and quickly deployed to save the day.
I agree with radio show host Lars Larson on this one — the Oregon Legislature recently overturned a 25-year-old bill preventing new schools, hospitals, jails, fire and police stations from bei…
The 2019 legislative session will be remembered more for what it didn’t accomplish than for what it did, thanks in large measure to the two walkouts staged by Senate Republicans to block legis…
Despite the accusations, I deny that I carry a man purse.
Fifty years ago the entire world turned its eyes to the heavens as astronauts from the United States landed on the moon.
On Oct. 28, 1980, in the final debate of his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan asked a question that has come to define presidential politics.
The 2019 session of the Oregon Legislature was a doozy. With supermajorities in each house, Democrats didn’t have to worry about passing most tax bills, which they did with abandon.
The Pendleton Development Commission made the right decision last week when it directed its advisory committee to go back to the drawing board on a series of proposals to address city blight. …
Nurses and other hospital employees enter the profession because they want to take care of people. But we know that too often they can become victims of violent acts on the job as they deliver…
You have to hand it to the folks at PETA — the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They know how to get their names in the news. Whether it's trying to assert constitutional rights fo…
I feared that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing might get eclipsed by other celebrations (the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot…
State government is once again supplying just what residents have come to expect from state programs devised to make Oregon green: failure.
On Monday, Donald Trump disinvited the then-British ambassador, Kim Darroch, from an official administration dinner with the emir of Qatar, because he was mad about leaked cables in which Darr…
It would be difficult to find a better example of the wise use of taxpayer dollars than the nearly complete new Pendleton Fire Station project.
Each spring, when the city of Pendleton fires up its $25,000 flower munching, goat-driven weedeater, I think back to when I was a goatherd. To be a bit more precise, I once owned a goat.
This letter is directed at those who think the choice of street paving projects is wrong. Larry Platek, I can’t speak to Northwest Seventh or Eighth, but I can sure speak about Southeast Byers…
The latest dust-up over Megan Rapinoe and the lingering flap over the Colin Kaepernick issue of disrespecting the flag beg the question: How can the false patriots in this country totally abso…
The Pendleton Development Commission (PDC) assistant executive director, Charles Denight, spokesperson for the city manager, put forth his proposal to eliminate blight in the Urban Renewal Dis…
The final weeks of the 2019 legislative session made for some ugly politics. In between Senate Republicans’ walkout and Democrats’ hobbling of Oregonians’ ballot-initiative power, partisan con…
No one likes to pay more taxes. Let’s face it, for most of us, the prospect of another government entity reaching into our wallets or purses for more cash is an unpleasant prospect.
Perhaps the action taken by the Senate Special Committee on Conduct against state Sen. Brian Boquist is meant only as a placeholder until an investigation into his threats against Senate Presi…
Not many will admit it, but the fact is a lot of us text while we are behind the wheel. And many more talk on the phone while driving.
Democracy shouldn’t be a spectator sport.
Secretary of State Bev Clarno’s office released its latest audit on July 3, this one on the state of cybersecurity in the Department of Administrative Services, the state’s central administrat…
If printed, this letter will be after the 4th of July. This is our most patriotic celebration where we express our appreciation and gratitude for those who fought and died to create this wond…
When I read your recent article on Congressman Greg Walden's town hall in Athena, I wondered at such a different experience that reporter had from mine.
Nature’s temporary solution to the crisis on the United States’ southwest border is upon us, in the form of high summer temperatures that should reduce the migration rate and relieve some of t…
The partisan excesses and political turmoil of the 2019 Oregon Legislature have been well-documented. But the now-finished legislative session also should be remembered for some good work on b…
"Walden town hall turns testy" is what I found when I was looking to see how Congressman Walden’s town hall on June 30 went. As someone who’s known Greg Walden for a number of years and is a b…
I was gathered together with a few of my girlfriends around a table with candles, and pies, and Mason jars filled with ice cubes melting in the kind of beverage that saturates your soul best —…
Near the close of last Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Chuck Todd asked the candidates what he called “a simple question.” In “one word,” he asked, who or what is the biggest geopo…
There is some sort of hard-to-define spiritual crisis across the land, which shows up in rising depression rates, rising mental health problems. A survey that the Pew Research Center released …
State voters will get the final say on a couple of issues that occupied legislators this session — and it also seems likely that they’ll be called upon to pass judgment on one of the session’s…
Legislative success can often be hard to come by the, but a tip of the hat to Oregon lawmakers for approving a bill that funnels more than $1 million to the education department for FFA programs.
Before the dust settles on this just-completed legislative session, we need to debunk a false narrative about the Senate Republicans’ two walkouts that disrupted legislative business.
I was at the town hall that Greg Walden hosted in Athena on Sunday and, to say the least, I am aghast at how he distorted conditions on the border. He let on like there are no issues with the …