Everybody loves a good mystery. There is something irresistibly tantalizing about the unknown that drives all discovery as well as an undeniable rush when the answers one is looking for are finally unearthed. Mysteries can also be frustrating, heartbreaking and disturbing, however, particularly when they…
“You don’t get if you don’t ask.’ “Don’t take no for an answer.” “Have it your way.” Tenets that many people live by, though they are leavened by the words of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: “You can’t always get what you want.” Everyone has…
Thanksgiving is going to be ugly this year. There’s a real chance the public won’t know who won the White House weeks after Election Day, and rather than feeling grateful, leaders in both parties are peddling grievances nonstop. Before the voting has begun, Americans have…
“Does it have a pool?” was the same question us five Zaitz kids asked everyday on our six-week road trip around the United States back in the early Seventies A station wagon pulling an Airstream trailer, the family departed in the summer (after the strawberry…
“If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten; and that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing!” Hi there, Keizertimes reader. How are you holding in there? I know it’s been a tough week and an even tougher year, 2020 being the veritable potpourri of…
Like the Depression-era and World War II students before them, students in the era of COVID-19 are finding their worlds turned upside down and the things they once took as a given, are not. Some semblence of normalcy returns Friday, August 7, as the McNary…
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” This was the nightmare of Ben Franklin. Yet, with passage this spring of a $4 trillion bailout of an economy facing historic losses…
To the Editor: Here’s another grumpy old man’s take on the fireworks issue. (Got a problem with fireworks? Keizertimes, July 24). First, the Fourth of July is a day, not a month. There would be far less complaining if the citizens Keizer Police Chief John Teague…
Governor Kate Brown’s announcement this week that there will no in-person classes until certain coronavirus testing metrics are met will not be met with universal acclaim. Students have been kept from the classroom since March, with most continung their education virtually. The long-term effects of…