Editorials

Unlike much of the U.S., last month’s mid-term election was ho-hum in Oregon — as in, few election snafus.

Good deeds don’t happen by accident.

If it looks too good to be true, it is not true.

The urban-rural divide is not just a “divide.” It is a widening chasm, one whose fissures were underscored by this month’s election results.

Kate Brown was re-elected as Oregon governor with 49.99 percent of the vote in the latest statewide results.

Imagine for a moment that you have a new job. You are to manage an alpha predator, known to be one of the most efficient and voracious hunters in the wild. This predator doesn’t just hunt for …

Bumper stickers proclaim, “Kate Brown is not my governor.” T-shirts, magnets and decals declare, “Donald Trump is not my president.”

Oregon is on cruise control.

Last month Senate and House conferees working on the 2018 Farm Bill failed to reach an agreement before the old farm bill expired and without Congress voting to extend it.

More than a quarter of a million women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and about one in eight women will develop breast cancer during their life.

A mass movement is underway in Oregon — a mass timber movement.

Grant County should be proud one of its youths has been selected as a questioner for next week’s gubernatorial debate.

The county and the sheriff’s office were both at fault in recent lawsuits, and county taxpayers will ultimately pay the $42,000 bill.

Last week Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue released details of the administration’s response to trade damages from retaliatory tariffs by China and other countries.

Oregon was a national pioneer on land-use planning. It led the way with the Bottle Bill. Its protection of public beach access is legendary.

The U.S. Forest Service is taking comment from individuals and groups with legal standing to file objections on its final draft of the much-anticipated Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision.

The recent controversy about whether conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ absurdities should be removed from media platforms has been shaped by his supporters as both a First Amendment and censorsh…

Today’s political rhetoric sounds as if our nation is embroiled in a civil war.

As Eastern Oregon farmers reap their year’s worth of work from its fertile soil, national and international pressures are tugging and tearing at their bottom line.

A proposed ballot measure for 2020 would force Oregonians to have a serious discussion about the role of public employees.

Since it was passed in 1973, the Endangered Species Act has been all but untouchable by members of Congress, who consider amendments to the law with the same trepidation they would if they wer…

Now that the Hammonds are coming home, how about an effort to curtail the mandatory minimum sentences that kept them behind bars?

As we celebrate our independence, it is worth remembering that freedom is not free.

It can be exhausting trying to keep up with the news.

Not many things last forever, which makes the perpetual Stewart Scholarship’s timeless gift of education even more exceptional.

Nestled near Canyon Creek in John Day is a building steeped in history.

In the words of State Economist Mark McMullen, Oregon’s economy “is still pretty hunky-dory.”

We are hearing renewed rumblings that action in the clemency cases of Dwight and Steven Hammond is imminent.

Knute Buehler has proposed 10 gubernatorial debates, crisscrossing the state. Gov. Kate Brown should accept his offer.

Of all the issues worthy of Oregon legislators’ immediate attention, a narrow tax break for businesses would rank far, far down the list.

In the course of human history, it was not long ago when most people had very little say in the decisions by rulers that affected their livelihood.

A government of the people, by the people and for the people is only possible when the people are aware of what the government is doing.

Reading Wade Cates’ firsthand account as a survivor of child sexual abuse is a sobering reminder that more needs to be done to protect the children of the community.

Gov. Kate Brown is trying to have it both ways. She’s taking a tax break from Oregon businesses and she’s calling a special legislative session to give businesses a tax break.

After receiving complaints about an Adopt-A-Highway permittee, the Eagle reached out to John Eden at the Oregon Department of Transportation for some answers.

It doesn’t take a medical degree to do CPR, and that’s the point.

The most sobering aspect of a new survey of Oregon high school students is how much their views align with those of their elders.

In a nation that too often looks down on its rural residents, Eastern Oregon University embraces them.

With all of the great sports accomplishments recently, we’ve been having a problem here at the Eagle: finding enough space to get it all in print.

Easy money is hard to come by, but for the John Day and Canyon City communities, it may simply require filling out a simple survey.

How is Oregon doing as a state?

Oregon’s foster care system needs to enter the 21st century.

Even before Ted Ferrioli and Richard Devlin officially joined the Northwest Power and Conservation Council this month, they were talking by phone several times a week about their upcoming work.

For much of Oregon’s history, a biennial legislative session was enough to attend to the matters of the state. Every odd year, elected representatives, lobbyists and citizens would meet at the…

The message to Oregon legislators from Gov. Kate Brown’s staff last week was that PERS has an immediate problem.

The one-issue ballot that arrived in your mailbox earlier this week, and the complicated question therein, is proof that something is rotten in the state of Oregon.

It should be obvious: When the U.S. government goes after anti-government protesters, it must follow the highest legal, ethical and operational standards. To do otherwise is to reinforce the p…

If the Oregon Legislature intends to pass tax and spending reforms in 2019, the work should have begun months ago.

Oregonians would not usually look to Alabama for an example. But during his post-election press conference, Alabama’s Senator-elect Doug Jones said something that applies to our state’s condition.

The FBI is so universally familiar to Americans that it’s unnecessary to spell out its name. Its initials are synonymous with a kind of stolid professionalism. Like our northern neighbor where…

The latter half of 2017 will be remembered as the time that women all over the globe drew a line in the sand.