Public Square We are in the season of giving. But what are we to do when many households are in some degree of need? The COVID pandemic and its ensuing economic challenges have forced many families to face shortages in earnings, food and necessities. The…
There once was a young algorithm named Albert who lived in the magical land of Tinseltown. Albert the algorithm had but one dream in his life, a dream that he held close and cherished even when the other algorithms belittled and mocked him: To one day…
Andrew Jackson For more than 14 years he styled the look of the Keizertimes and its special sections. Andrew Jackson started his first tour of duty at this newspaper in early 2005, barely out of college, but eager to put his learned skills to work.…
The City of Keizer adopted a Statement of Values in December, touching on aspects of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. The statement includes, among other elements, a definition of white supremacy as well as a condemnation of it; recognition of historical laws and policies that…
It is sometimes easy for me to forget in the never-ending deluge of Hollywood content that the United States is no longer the only superpower when it comes to making movies and television. Every once in a while, however, the comfy yet blinding isolationist bubble…
If it weren’t for having been raised with the cultural admonition that ‘real men don’t cry,’ it’d be easy for me to shed a tear nowadays over remembrances of my youth. During the small-person years of my childhood, my mother didn’t work outside our home…
Timothée Chalamet stars in Dune, currently in theaters and on HBO Max. The Fremen people have a distinctive way of walking while traversing the sandy wastes of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s Dune: all over the place and without rhythm. This is done as to not attract the…
The Salem-Keizer School District and the community should return to a progam of old: Grow Our Own. Grow our own teachers from the students at our schools. Teaching is a wonderful profession that offers a wide variety of options, from elementary school to high school,…
Daniel Craig stars No Time to Die, his fifth movie as British superspy 007. If you are an actor who happens to be British, then odds are you will probably play one of two characters sometime in your career: The Doctor (of Doctor Who fame; call him…