The first thing you have to know about Dave Frohnmayer’s proposal for the Oregon University System is that Frohnmayer does not make ill-
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This should have been done in the Willamette Valley. It was done in Denmark instead.
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Covering the local news means, among other things, listening to speakers on the phone and at meetings. People could make that job easier, if only they cared to do so.
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It was in August 2008, a year and three months ago, that a consultant for Lowe’s notified the city of Albany that it intended to construct a home improvement center on about 12 acres at the southeast corner of Ninth Avenue and Oak Street. The sad news is that after all this time, the st…
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Touring Asia, President Obama said Wednesday he’s still weeks away from deciding how many reinforcements to send to Afghanistan. One wonders whether he knows the trouble he is causing our troops with this continued dithering.
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The courts in Oregon, we have seen, offer no protection against political and fiscal mistakes. That is as it should be. Politics should be in the hands of voters, not judges.
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Newsweek put Sarah Palin on the cover this week so that it could make fun of her in an essay by Christopher Hitchins. He rips her apart in the course of trying to make a point against populism and how it always betrays the “hicks” it pretends to represent.
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The Pew Center on the States, a think tank, last week ranked Oregon among the 10 worst-off states in terms of their state budgets and the economic slump. Great, tell us something we don’t already know.
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The Obama administration announced last week that it would bring five of the 9/11 terrorists to trial in federal court in New York. The main problem with this decision is that it treats the five as criminals.
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DLCD stands for the Department of Land Conservation and Development. But judging by the way it does business, it should be called by its real name, the Department of Legal Confusion and Delay.
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In the Mailbag last week, Rick Rebel of Albany made this claim about medical insurance: “Most everyone knows that Oregonians have guaranteed access too to coverage, but whether they can afford it is a different story.”
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Friday morning I was reading a letter to the editor in the Portland Oregonian. Before long I was talking to Andy Olson, our state legislator from Albany, and others. When I was done, we had a story about “automatic external defibrillators,” and I was wishing our legislature would do a…
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When the economy slumps, it’s even more important to see that agreements are kept.
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A programming change being made by one satellite television service in North Albany has called attention to a longstanding oddity.
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In advance of Veterans Day we looked up a copy of the Democrat from Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of Armistice Day. The paper reported on many developments that day, among them the arrival of the high school football team from The Dalles for its state championship game against Alba…
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How dumb do some direct-mail promoters think people are? A Lebanon resident, who is definitely not dumb, got a promotion in the mail. “Get up to $500 deposited in your checking account tomorrow.” That’s what the mailing said. All he had to do was go online and fill out a form. “Up…
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Here’s a reminder of the main reason for deriding the alarms about global warming: It can serve as a pretext to wipe out what little personal freedom citizens retain.
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It is true, as the demonstrators at Heritage Mall on Monday night said, that war is not a game. But neither is “Call of Duty,” the game they were protesting, anything like war. It’s a video game, that’s all.
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Reports from Washington and Texas have developed more of a picture of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who opened fire at Fort Hood last week, killing 13 and wounding many more. The emerging portrait suggests that this was not an average Army officer who suddenly went violently nuts. It sugg…
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So the big health care bill has passed in the House. As the Senate considers it, let’s remind ourselves just why there’s been this wave of complaints about health care.
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