Once again, the East Oregonian is criticizing the Oregon Legislature’s attempts to deal with reducing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Criticism can be useful, but when other options are not suggested, it just becomes finger pointing with no action.
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It’s heartening to see growing support in the Senate for limiting Trump’s use of war powers. Last week, the House passed a resolution to limit his war powers against Iran. The measure, althoug…
The women stopped me as I walked through Sisters Cafe to put up a First Draft Writers’ Series poster on the bulletin board.
A recent letter to the editor contained a number of misconceptions about the North Bank of the Umatilla Advisory Committee’s work. I urge everyone who is interested in this topic to attend the…
A tip of the hat to Tygh Campbell, Umatilla Electric Cooperative linemen and all of those citizens who joined together to help pull vehicles from ditches and plow roadways so stranded motorist…
A new decade is upon us, we who live, love and die in a small rural town of some consequence. In this proud town, many significant talents abound with roots that have long been here and others…
Almost any Oregon legislator can launch into a passionate speech about how much they believe in accountability and transparency. But they don’t always deliver.
The last few years have brought increasing political partisanship. It’s worn down our energy and worn down our trust in each other and in our elected officials. I hope that in our upcoming sho…
We were on the way to ballet rehearsal. It’s my favorite 30 minutes of the day. It’s a chance to break away from work, and to touch base with my only child. She’s 14 now. And it won’t be long …
Could a communications campaign aimed at gun-owning households lower the incidence of gun violence in America?
Successful police work has always hinged on the involvement of the community, and that is why the recent effort by members of the Milton-Freewater community to create a citizens patrol is such…
Oregon is not a wait-and-see kind of state. So it’s time to stop waiting for more research about providing a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Instead, it’s time we adopt a UBI and fine tune it as…
Less than two weeks from now, thousands of pro-life teenagers will converge on the nation’s capital to rally in support of the unborn at the 47th annual March for Life.
The Oregon Senate’s Interim Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has unveiled the Legislature’s latest version of climate change legislation.
Today marks a new endeavor for me. I find myself writing a column for the East Oregonian, and the powers that be want me to do it every month. When they first approached me to do this I was ho…
The Oregon Legislature created the office of public records advocate in 2017, and Ginger McCall was appointed to the post in January 2018 by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. One year and nine months la…
Scott Fairley wanted to work with everyone on the council and had quite the sense of humor. I first met him up at KUMA while campaigning. The father of one of my friends scheduled me on a day …
A big tip of the hat to Pendleton City Councilor Scott Fairley, who died Tuesday while vacationing with wife Kimbra Cook and their son, Lieden, in Mexico. A rare aneurysm of the hepatic artery…
Happy New Year to all y’all. My interest in calendars began in early 1953, when my dad brought home a huge boxful of 1952 calendars given to him by an itinerant calendar salesman. In those day…
Have you no decency?
It didn’t take long for “World War III” to become a trending topic on Twitter in the hours after news broke that a drone strike by U.S. forces resulted in the death of a top Iranian military c…
When we were considering going to annual sessions, the short session was promised to be merely housekeeping, budget items that needed some adjustment. No major legislation.
Keeping your personal information private is, well, a losing battle. Companies can track your cellphone location even if you think you have blocked tracking. Companies can track locations you …
There aren’t a lot of people out there that remember when President Nixon was going through his impeachment journey. I was still young but I remember my parents, during those final days of Nix…
The relationship between government entities and a newspaper or other media outlets can be a complicated one, and occasionally one highlighted by a certain degree of tension.
The small group of North Hill Pendleton residents that blocked the sale of a small parcel of land at the bottom of Northwest Seventh must have exhausted the grant they received trying to devel…
Umatilla County Commissioner George Murdock made an interesting comment recently in a story in this newspaper regarding one of his upcoming goals for the new year.
Born from avarice and glaring depravity, the antichrist shall rise as a false idol by compelling his most devout disciples to perceive their prejudice as power, by fanning the flames of their …
Even coverage of an attempted mass shooting successfully stopped by the NRA’s “good guy with a gun” is not immune from the Opposition Media’s anti-gun agenda.
Agriculture is big business in Oregon. Statistics from the Oregon Department of Agriculture help build a picture of the scope:
I’m horrified and irate that Trump ordered the assassination of Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a top commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. This would be equivalent to a foreign government as…
The 2010s began with Hermiston officially taking the mantle as largest city in Eastern Oregon. It’s a point of pride for this small town that came into its own as an agricultural powerhouse at…
Regarding your Nov. 19, 2019, article: Why does a diverse group of Oregon’s political interests want to take redistricting out of the Legislature’s hands?
A new year signals a new beginning for all of us. While many of us will make our standard new year resolutions, as a community there are several pledges we should make for 2020.
The wild rivers and streams east of the Cascades are lifelines — giving us the gift of cold, clean water to drink, late season flows for farms, havens for fish and wildlife, and places to fish…
Recently, the East Oregonian published an editorial about the long-overdue plan revisions for the national forests of the Blue Mountains. This editorial included a statement that challenged th…
Mason, my oldest son, recently agreed to help me move some pictures and sort through a pile of framed images I had taken off the wall upstairs this past week. I had spent the day sorting, clea…
A tip of the hat to Pendleton High School graduate Julie Rowell and a big shout-out to the teachers at PHS and all around Umatilla County.
Has anyone ever noticed that government transparency is not the norm in Oregon? The Oregon PUC is currently writing "new rules," with the input of Idaho Power, to allow Idaho Power to condemn,…
The results of a study of stakeholder attitudes regarding the proposed breaching of Snake River dams were hardly surprising, but ag interests say the document may serve to educate proponents o…
This writing has to do with the pile of weeds which the other day caused a traffic snarl on one of Eastern Washington’s roadways.
Oh swell. The Republican Senate’s so-called “moderates,” who combine big talk with little action and fuse noble rhetoric with hapless inertia, appear to be readying themselves for another year…
The United States of America Commemoration of the Vietnam War is currently ongoing. This national commemoration was authorized by Congress, established under the secretary of defense and launc…