Once upon a time, there was a little princess who lived with her queen mum, the court jester and a couple of stable boys. The little princess loved all things girl, from frilly pink clothes to American Girl dolls. The court jester tried many times to corrupt the poor little princess. He did …
Once upon a time, there was a little princess who lived with her queen mum, the court jester and a couple of stable boys. The little princess loved all things girl, from frilly pink clothes to…
Oregon Republicans most likely understood at the end of the last session that the controversial carbon emission issue wasn’t going to go away.
Oregon may not know it yet, but in 2021, it is going to lose a tremendous amount of influence in Washington, D.C.
It’s often said “the only constant in life is change.”
You can be savoring an IPA along the John Day River after a long day of adventuring in Oregon’s forests and honestly wonder if things couldn’t get much better. But sometimes those charged with…
Every customer who comes into your business has a problem, and they are looking for you to help solve it.
I still remember the day we spent perusing all the major sporting goods stores in Bend and Redmond. It was 1994, and my folks had decided it was time to graduate from the BB gun. Finally I was…
Over the course of the last two years, I have grown an interest in writing and journalism.
Ginger McCall, Oregon’s first public records advocate, left office Oct. 11 with some suggestions for her successor, the Public Records Advisory Council she headed and lawmakers and other offic…
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To the Editor:
With all due respect to Sonny Perdue, there’s more to farming than size.
The fact that the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is moving ahead to formulate plans to execute Gov. Kate Brown’s order that bans vaping products is good news.
Several hundred people have damaged their lungs by vaping, and around 20 have died in the United States recently, including two in Oregon.
My boy is 14 years old, and his summer wages are burning a hole in his pocket. Despite his ability to shoot and hunt with my rifles, he is dying to have a rifle of his own. I can understand th…
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Farm groups are lauding a new agricultural trade deal the administration has reached with Japan.
President Trump promised “America will never be a socialist country” — at least not while he’s in office.
Hunting with a handgun is a purely American sport at its roots. Largely this is because handgun ownership is not permitted in most other places in the world. While it may seem daunting to limi…
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All entrepreneurs and business owners need to have a solid team in place working toward the same goal.
Oregonians may be asked next year to approve a ballot measure that would decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs. That in itself is a bad idea. Worse is the way the measure would finance…
I just got home from a tuna fishing trip off the Oregon Coast, and if you love to fish, I highly recommend you give it a try. My brother and I have been talking about doing a tuna trip for yea…
The data is staggering: An estimated one in four businesses won’t reopen after a major disaster.
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Gov. Kate Brown missed an excellent opportunity when she declined last week to call for a special session of the Legislature to amend Senate Bill 1013, a new law that revises the crime of aggr…
Ah, hunting season. For those flicking sticks, it’s already upon us, and for the punkin’ chunkers, we have just a little bit longer yet to wait. The smell of wood smoke and sizzling bacon is e…
I edited The Oregonian/OregonLive article on opioids and pharmacies that your publication critiqued on Aug. 23. Our report was based on The Washington Post’s national ranking of pharmacies by …
Honesty is the best policy, of course, but sometimes those little white lies sneak in:
Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to hire Oregon’s first public records advocate in January 2018 was a promising step toward addressing deficiencies with how agencies, at both the state and local lev…
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Wolf sightings have become increasingly more common here in Oregon. Several years ago, a local resident mistakenly shot a wolf in Logan Valley. At the beginning of August, the Blue Mountain Ea…
The efforts to put a recall of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on the ballot is a visible sign of the rural-urban divide.
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It’s that time of year again.
We remember when we found out that our favorite chocolate chip cookies weren’t made by elves in a hollow tree. Had we not been 8 at the time we might have hired a lawyer and taken the folks at…
This July the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 1013, a bill that narrowed the definition of aggravated murder and drastically reduced the number of murderers in this state who are eligibl…
When Heidi Wright called me June 3 to suggest that our company should take a look at bidding on Bend’s daily newspaper, The Bulletin, I was at once startled, skeptical and intrigued.
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To the Editor:
Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe effectively ended a broiling controversy Wednesday when he announced that there would be no investigation of a local newspaper regarding alleged telephonic h…
