U.S. Rep. Greg Walden has become very good at walking a fine line during his town hall meetings in Eastern Oregon. A tightrope, even.
Sometimes stories are simpler than they’re made out to be. That appears to be the case with Jeff Bezos.
Regarding the March 19 column, “Playing the Blame Game,” I’d like to offer an alternative to the word “blame”: responsibility. While it doesn’t lend itself as well to catchy headlines, it’s an…
NEW YORK — In a homeless shelter in Manhattan, an 8-year-old boy is walking to his room, carrying an awkward load in his arms, unfazed by screams from a troubled resident. The boy is a Nigeria…
In an unexpected development, the U.S. Forest Service announced on March 14 that it had withdrawn the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision. The objections by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project…
To recklessly throw around claims of voting fraud is to play a dangerous game that could cause lasting harm to our democracy.
For going on three years now, Britain has taken a holiday from sanity. A tiny island kingdom whose people once ruled nearly a fourth of the world’s land area squabbles over the terms of its se…
In the wake of Friday’s horrific massacre in which 50 mosque worshippers were slaughtered by a gunman in Christchurch, New Zealand, social media exploded almost immediately with theories and o…
Democrats hold Oregon’s fate in their hands — at least for the near term.
Agnes McKeen lives in Klamath Falls. About three years ago, at 16, Agnes’ son Harrison took his own life.
A century ago, any brazen leaders who had the audacity to raise fees a whopping 50 percent would have been tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. So imagine our shock when we opened…
March 8 was International Women’s Day. Did you celebrate?
Cattlemen are cheering an announcement that the Department of the Interior will soon propose a plan to end federal protections on gray wolves, especially after the report claiming the species …
This is a dispiriting epoch of strongmen and bullies, yet side by side with the worst you find the best. So today let’s find inspiration in two heroes.
The sharp rise in the number of unauthorized migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in February seemed to confirm one of President Trump’s loudest claims — that the nation faces a full…
The news stories and photos from a Berrien County, Georgia, puppy mill are half past maddening: In recent days, authorities have removed more than 700 dogs from the wretched facility. Rescuers…
A recent letter to the Baha’is of the World from the Universal House of Justice in the Holy Land speaks of the pivotal principle necessary for the unification of the human race and universal, …
One of the funniest stories I ever heard about the college admissions madness came from a consultant who was paid handsomely to guide families through it and increase the odds that Harvard or …
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision changed how public-sector unions can operate, those unions and their allies have been working to change laws to their advantage.
Oregon legislators are to be commended for going outside Salem to hear from non-urbanites about the state budget and other issues. But lawmakers should go further, adding more rural perspectiv…
It is in these early months each year when a sense begins to emerge about the condition of forthcoming salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest. Mysterious to the uninitiated, the North of Falcon …
President Trump often complains that he is the victim of “presidential harassment” — or, as he sometimes puts it, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”
From the beginning the presidency of Donald Trump has inspired analogies to the years of Jimmy Carter. Though personally the two men are ever so slightly different, they seem to occupy a simil…
Across our country, approximately 23 million Americans living in rural areas lack sufficient access to the internet. Many of these people are our friends and neighbors right here in Eastern Or…
Former Secretary of State Norma Paulus was a product of rural Oregon. She exemplified what individuals can do when given a chance — conquering poverty, polio and the lack of a college degree t…
When it comes to hurting businesses, schools and families in rural Oregon, the Federal Communications Commission decision to pull the plug last year on net neutrality really hurts.
Oregon voters may soon get to decide whether to lower the voting age to 16.
Public records are documents made by a government agency which are required to be kept and maintained.
Gary Martin was exactly the kind of person that gun control background checks — a federal system now 25 years old — was designed to catch.
I could feel it coming. The air began to change and the clouds seemed to take a shape of their own. My bones started to ache. A storm had been lingering on the horizon, and there was no longer…
A tip of the hat to the Heppner Mustangs and Nixyaawii Golden Eagles, our newest state champions.
As Pendleton’s mayor recently put it, running the city is very expensive and costs just keep going up. Besides the required costs for public safety (police and fire protection), and maintenanc…
Here’s an item from Salem that you might have missed last week: The state’s economists are predicting that legislators will have a record amount of revenue with which to work as they craft a s…
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says there is no doubt President Trump has obstructed justice.
Since at least the middle of the Obama era, all the energy and activity and creativity in the Democratic coalition has been with people pushing the party away from any kind of centrism — with …
Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legal, either for recreational use or only for medical purposes. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is refreshingly candid about whether Congress will event…
There are a few of us who were around when Republican Tom McCall was governor of Oregon. You will remember he was instrumental in the passage of the bottle bill and other important Oregon laws.
Dennis Richardson was a courageous man.
With the ground cover that has lasted for a couple of weeks and forecast to remain for a while longer, residents of our area might consider providing feed for our furred and feathered friends.
Since conservatism became a movement in the 1950s, the American right has understood itself to be defending not just the written American Constitution but an unwritten one as well — a kind of …
Iearn the cash that it takes to buy my Spam sandwiches by writing grants that support music and pottery classes and for teaching kids how to draw what they feel. I am privileged to associate w…
Dianne Feinstein doesn’t get it. How could she? She’s 85. Ancient. She has had too many decades to resign herself to the status quo, and she won’t be around to watch the fires rage and the oce…
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight Committee was explosive not for what was new — but, depressingly, what was not new to anyone watching this admi…
A tip of the hat to the Blue Mountain Heart to Heart needle exchange program that set up shop in Pendleton last weekend.