Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher is a highly decorated combat veteran who made the mistake of posing for a photograph with a dead ISIS combatant.
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The top priority of Pendleton’s citizenry is to fix Pendleton’s deteriorating streets and to provide sustainable funding to keep the streets in good condition. In response, the city council ha…
It’s hard to know whether to laugh, cry, shrug or shake our heads at the results of a recent poll on where most people get their political news — and how much they trust that source.
As we survey the havoc that President Trump and his sycophants have wreaked on the institutions of government, we can at least be thankful, during this holiday week, that the federal judiciary…
Six months ago, I stepped into the editor’s chair at the East Oregonian with a lot of expectations and hopes, and I can honestly say, I have not been disappointed.
You could be forgiven for missing it in the build-up to Thanksgiving and the blizzard of impeachment news, but America’s fact-challenged chief executive was up to some old tricks this week.
Despite Mayor John Turner’s recent comments that I don’t like competition, I do like competition. I grew up with four competitive brothers and went to college on an athletic scholarship. I thr…
Economic inequality in the United States is at its highest point in more than five decades since the Census Bureau first started measuring it. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet togethe…
The latest Democratic presidential debate was disappointing. Not because the participants weren’t articulate — in fact, many of their answers were excellent — but because the DNC and the netwo…
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” — Mark Twain
I adored the story of “Cinderella” as a child. The prospect of having a man so in love with me that he’d crisscross the Kingdom searching for my size 6½ foot was heady stuff. It never occurred…
A month after Gov. Kate Brown’s Council on Wildfire Response raised eyebrows throughout the Oregon by estimating that it will take $4 billion over 20 years to improve the state’s ability to re…
If Ambassador Bill Taylor didn’t exist already, we’d have to invent him.
When will the city of Pendleton act with greater fiscal responsibility? Everyone acknowledges the degrading condition of Pendleton’s roads as a result of deferring years of maintenance, but th…
People are still talking about last month’s First Draft Writers’ Series and Portland poet and novelist Harold Johnson — sharing his books, wanting more. An African-American who was raised in W…
It’s been almost 50 years since Americans were riveted by gavel-to-gavel live coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program just released a study that casts serious doubt on President Trump’s insistence that the economy is improving, and that the employment ma…
Whenever a Catholic runs or is nominated for public office, he or she has to endure a now-familiar vetting process revolving around one thing: abortion rights. To make progressives happy, cand…
Oregon’s deputy secretary of state has a choice to make.
Journalists relentlessly pursue the truth in order to provide citizens with the information they need to be self-governing. And yet, for journalists, doing that work can be risky, dangerous an…
The lesson of the 2019 state elections confirmed the lesson of the 2018 congressional midterms: Donald Trump can stage all the demagogic rallies he wants, but he’s powerless to reverse the GOP…
Joe Biden is going to win the Democratic nomination for president. I wouldn’t run to your bookie with this information. My track record is spotty, at best. But I’ll be shocked if I’m wrong and…
Albert and I worked together on a project near Walden Pond in north-central Massachusetts. We were hired by a developer to help with chopping Mary Todd Lincoln’s (Abe’s wife) family farm into …
A president teetering on the brink of impeachment … whose public approval is as much as 15 points underwater … who trails the leading opposition candidates … who may cost his party its majorit…
The men and women who have selflessly served our great nation deserve the utmost support and respect. While every Veterans Day we pay special respect and honor to our nation’s finest by visiti…
I love to study our nation’s history through the lens of our military veterans.
Since 1999, a lot has changed in Oregon: The Ducks became a football powerhouse, thousands of Californians ignored Gov. McCall’s admonition and decided to visit and stay, and tech fully took o…
On Nov. 11, 1969, Operation Fulton Square in the Quang Tri Province was in full force with the assistance of the 1st Marine Division, 101st Airborne Division and the 5th Infantry Division. Thi…
It happens every fall. After only cursory interest in the national pastime during the regular season, I start paying more attention to baseball as the World Series approaches. As a kid, I was …
Maybe they thought they were standing up for principle.
The multifamily and single-family housing markets are closely related. What’s good for one can be good for the other. In a normal free market housing cycle, jobs drive both markets. When new j…
Pendleton residents have long been concerned with potholes and maintenance of city streets, and for good reason. The Pavement Management Budget Options Report completed in 2018 revealed that c…
When I hear the word “lynch,” I immediately think of the black experience of torture, persecution and dehumanization that was so prevalent in the first half of the last century in the American…
In an era of the “fake news” mantra, verification and accountability are far more important than ever before for news organizations like the East Oregonian. We boast a variety of procedures to…
It’s often said “the only constant in life is change.”
I come from eight generations of Oregonians, many of whom have worked in the medical field, so choosing a career as a nurse here in Burns was an easy decision. While being a nurse has created …
Imagine somewhere between Shawshank and a Motel 6.
Write down the date: Oct. 16, 2019.
I hope you were able to see Tamastslikt Cultural Institute’s recent gallery exhibit “Savages and Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes.” The show featured 13 contemporary …
If only the Democrats could fight like the Washington Nationals. The new National League champs won four straight on the way to the World Series, with great pitching and clutch hitting. End of…
It began with 25 candidates. It’s been reduced by half, yet concern persists among Democrats that the party should look beyond the still standing contenders and seek an individual capable of p…
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, “he said, she said” is quickly becoming “she said, he cringed and remained silent.” Another variation is, “she said, he apologized profusely and then resigned.”
The constitutional crisis has officially arrived. To the surprise of nobody with a cognitive intellect, Donald Trump has hauled us to this treacherous precipice. The good news is that the Hous…
We are, once again, approaching the annual switch from daylight saving time back to good old normal regular time, meaning that my bedtime at dark will almost overlap with my supper at 6 p.m. M…
Since President Trump’s first day in office, and from my first day as his health secretary, our country’s opioid crisis has been one of our most challenging missions. But there were always sou…
The trade wars are hitting me where it hurts.
Philadelphia is one step closer to opening a Hotel Heroin in beautiful, downtown Kensington.
The impeachable president whined last week that he missed the good days when the Fourth Estate covered him exactly the way he wanted. In his inimitable words, “I used to be the king of getting…
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become the face of the climate wars, reminds me of another child I saw dominate international debate: Elian Gonzalez.
There came a point when no one took Fred Sanford seriously when he clutched his chest, looked toward the heavens and cried out, “This is the big one! I’m coming Elizabeth!”
Earlier this year, I spent a few days, all too short, with my mother. At the time, I didn’t know she was dying, or at least I didn’t want to acknowledge it. She was frail, yes, but she was als…
Aside from a brief period nearly 30 years ago when I attended college and resided in the Willamette Valley, I have essentially lived on a farm — or, more accurately stated, three different far…
We dare not contemplate what the Washington Republicans would say if Donald Trump were to actually shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
Donald Trump visited enemy territory last week.