Jim Parr’s Will Oregon shrink? (Keizertimes, May 1)) inspired reactions from provocations to thoughtful considerations. Meanwhile, for the last two legislative sessions, state House Republicans have walked out of the Capitol due to deadlocking disagreements with the Democrats, resulting in disabling divisiveness due to hidebound ideological…
To the Editor: Call this an old radio guy’s lament: While there is no doubt (except in the mind of a certain “stable genius”) that the Russians meddled in the last election and are at it again—sowing discontent on new media to improve the reelection…
Photo by Sanju Chand Prema Thakur, an official for the Champawat district in India, teaches Pratap Singh Bora, a 56-year-old migrant laborer from Nepal, how to write his name in Hindi. In times of world crisis people are often starved for good news. We seek…
How does this sound: Coos Bay-Idaho, Crater Lake-Idaho, Medford-Idaho, Redmond-Idaho, Baker City-Idaho, Burns-Idaho, etc. Some of the residents of southwest, central and eastern Oregon, approximately three-fourths of the state, want to become part of a greatly expanded state of Idaho. Should it become partially or totally true,…
Every crisis breeds its own white hat heroes; conversely, every crisis also breeds black hat scoundrels. Most will agree that the white hat heroes of the coronavirus pandemic are the health workers—doctors, nurses and anyone who goes to work at a hospital or clinic. The…
If I could contact my deceased relatives, specifically my parents and grandparents, I would write them a letter to thank them for holding steady to the task and remaining undeterred during hardship conditions in the U.S. by the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War…
If you have been lucky enough to read one of my reviews in this newspaper before, you might have noticed a trend: thus far I have only reviewed movies and television shows that are original creations of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and…
Robbie the Robot gets a major upgrade in Netflix’s take on Lost in Space, seen here with Judy (Taylor Russ), Penny (Mina Sundwall), and Will (Maxwell Jekins). In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave Americans a solemn promise: that before the decade was over, the…
The thousands of Oregonians who’ve responded to Governor Kate Brown’s order to stay-at-home can be duly proud of themselves as it appears this effort by a majority of us to control the COVID-19 outbreak has come to a victory of sorts of humankind over a…