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 that because I was 14 once too. The question is, what to buy?
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…
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
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…
To the Editor:
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.
To the Editor:
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…
I’ve counseled many business clients who face the same dilemma: not enough business. They tell me about how much money they’ve spent on marketing, their detailed business plan, the quality pro…
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Occasionally it is prudent to remind voters in Oregon of a few, fundamental elements regarding our access to government.
Anyone I’ve ever talked to about hunting has a story or two where they’ve experienced something which could be described as a sterling example of “what not to do.” Whether greenhorn mistakes o…
A time-honored tradition that hearkens back to a simpler time, a county fair typically serves as a demarcation line between the end of summer and the start of school. The fair is sort of that …
As the nation experiences unprecedented economic growth and nearly the lowest unemployment rates in history, President Donald Trump and the U.S. Small Business Administration are working to en…
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Hunting season is still a ways off, and you don’t feel much like fishing, so now is a great time to take a hike. Grant County has lots of hiking opportunities for everyone from the casual stro…
‘You’ve been doing your laundry all wrong!” my mom gushed.
A Clackamas County judge has opened a gaping loophole in Oregon’s Public Records Law, and the state Court of Appeals needs to slam it shut, posthaste.
The “quarterbore” does not enjoy the popularity it deserves these days. The various .24 calibers on one side and the shiny new 6.5s on the other seem to cast a giant shadow on the once popular…
We dragged into the house, tired, dirty and exhausted. It had been one of those days. It had started with a jolt, a little after 4 a.m., when an air horn blasted repeatedly as an unknown truck…
By now most area voters know about the two efforts to recall Gov. Kate Brown and as the effort gains steam lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should take notice.
