The wintry mix of weather hitting Linn and Benton counties this week might be a pain for residents dealing with slick roads and other issues, …
Most of us here in the mid-Willamette Valley have never set foot in Australia, nor will we ever. We know the continent best due to its fascina…
Given today's extreme partisanship, serious citizens need to remind ourselves that all political discourse is a mixture of sense and nonsense.…
ROSE (roz) n. One of the most beautiful of all flowers, a symbol of fragrance and loveliness. Often given as a sign of appreciation.
The city of Albany’s ongoing saga regarding accessory dwelling units continued in epic, utterly predictable and completely unnecessary fashion…
As we begin this decade, Americans need to become aware of a major threat from China. It is not a military threat, but it is bad news.
At first glance, Benton County’s looming purchase of a second building on Research Way in Corvallis makes more than a bit of sense.
As we prepare to head into the New Year, it’s only natural to look back on the year that was.
• ROSE (roz) n. One of the most beautiful of all flowers, a symbol of fragrance and loveliness. Often given as a sign of appreciation.
As a legislator, and as the director of a local children’s advocacy center, we have made careers out of protecting children from abuse, improv…
Republican Knute Buehler announced his candidacy last week for a congressional seat that covers eastern and central Oregon, and his primary ra…
ROSE (roz) n. One of the most beautiful of all flowers, a symbol of fragrance and loveliness. Often given as a sign of appreciation.
We have mixed feelings about Oregon’s new plastic bag ban, but ultimately we support the law, which is set to take effect in January.
ROSE (roz) n. One of the most beautiful of all flowers, a symbol of fragrance and loveliness. Often given as a sign of appreciation.
WASHINGTON — Mark Penn, the morally flexible pollster to Bill Clinton now advising President Trump on how to beat impeachment, told him to "go…
Now that many of our editorial board members have more than our fair share of gray hair, we value Christmas for different reasons other than t…
For many families in the Albany area, we’re guessing this was likely a Thanksgiving to forget thanks to Norovirus, an easily transmittable gas…
The holiday shopping season hits full stride on Black Friday, and, just a reminder, Thursday’s newspaper will be absolutely stuffed with adver…
“What’s happening to the newspaper?”
Maybe it was always thus: The older you get, the more trust you develop.
The rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C., reminds me of an exchange between the King and the Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland."
Linn County’s breach of contract lawsuit against the state of Oregon and the Oregon Department of Forestry wrapped up Wednesday with a stagger…
A month after Gov. Kate Brown's Council on Wildfire Response raised eyebrows throughout the Oregon by estimating that it will take $4 billion …
Here are excerpts from editorials that have been published recently in other Oregon newspapers:
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 annual Veterans Day parade that will snake through downtown Albany this morning might well be, as organizers say, the largest in the natio…
This is about a recent 24-hour period in which I learned that my pastor needed my help and that my younger daughter was pregnant.
