Thanks, Mr. Hartman, for sharing your readings of two very well-written books and also to remember that our forefathers fought very hard to ma…
To The Corvallis City Council and the property owner of Mary’s Annexation:
My father-in-law had a bad habit. (He actually had several — don't we all? — but I'm going to talk about one in particular.)
Mayor Traber and city councilors,
Tonight (July 14), the GAPS Board, Director Thomson aside, made one thing abundantly clear to their constituents — transparency is not valued.…
This community was ill-served by its school board’s action July 14. Three members voted to fire Superintendent Melissa Goff for “no cause.”
Well, I'm stunned! Stunned by the speed with which the new Albany School Board fired their Superintendent! They didn't even TRY to work with her.
While I was rehearsing with some friends around 7:30 p.m. on a weekend, an anonymous neighbor called the police on us.
I am hoping the recent heatwave — 115 degrees, hotter in some places, breaking records that go back 2,000 years — will be a wake-up call to th…
The firebrands leading the charge against critical race theory seem not to understand this academic discussion occurring in colleges and unive…
[Written on July 1] Three days before we celebrate our democracy, I fear we are witnessing circumstances that remind me of a time in our histo…
Our present system of health care is in drastic need of simplification.
What makes a good leader? Integrity, transparency, consensus-building, listening with compassion, and the ability to compromise come to mind. …
I have a sign in my front yard proclaiming to all passersby “I believe in Health Care for All.”
As the U.S. continues to withdraw from its most recent failed attempt at nation-building, thousands of Afghans who aided our troops and contra…
The events in Cuba are part of a nationwide uprising.
In 1946, a demographer predicted that the population of India, 330 million at the time, would rise to 1 billion by the year 2000.
The OSU Folk Club Thrift Shop Foundation has generously provided funds to the Corvallis Community Band to purchase audiovisual recording equipment.
If you read two books describing the U.S. War of Independence, “1776” by Robert McCullough and “Saratoga” by Richard Ketchum, and compare the …
Our country was founded on hopes and dreams, and now it’s been shattered, or so it seems.
The recent headline said “Corvallis will revisit homeless camp cleanups,” which, translated to realspeak, becomes “Spineless local politicians…
Senior Dog Rescue of Oregon would like to extend its gratitude to PetSmart in Corvallis.
A person need not live in Georgia to know why they changed their voting law.
The Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis kicked off the Fourth of July with the Firecracker 5K walk/run presented by Running Princess.
It is a willful act of cruelty to destabilize people with the threat of posting that their shelter will be bulldozed, and offer nothing substa…
“Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute!” is a slogan from early U.S. history regarding the Barbary pirates.
With the lifting of almost all COVID-related restrictions on June 30, this is a good time to assess what those restrictions accomplished.