One of the many bills under consideration in the Oregon Legislature this year would erect a giant barrier to seeking help when a drug overdose occurs, and more dishearteningly, it is a backslide into anti-drug policy proven not to work. Oregon House Bill 2797 would establish a mandatory minimum prison[Read More…]

President Donald Trump called on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign from Congress. That, of course, is not going to happen. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller found no conspiracy or coordination between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian actors, Schiff told The Washington Post, “Undoubtedly, there is collusion.”[Read More…]

History shows that when revolutions occurred in human civilizations—recent and ancient—a huge number of people involved believed the outcomes would advantage them. However, the specifics in many examples reveal that, after peace returned, one man, sometimes a woman, established a stranglehold that resulted, save for a few confidants, in widespread loss[Read More…]

To the victor go the spoils, but sometimes the victors grab too much. The proposed paid family and medical leave bills is a dagger to the heart of business. House Bill 3140 mandates employers pay up to 32 weeks of family and medical leave each year; employees would be eligible after only[Read More…]

As you may be aware, working in the Capitol can be draining, to say the least. The days are full of contentious legislation in committees, followed by meetings with constituents and lobbyists to hear each side of an issue, topped with floor sessions and committee hearings. So, when I can[Read More…]

A firmly held view here is that we must help our youth as much as each of us can. This view has its foundation in the fact that at no time in our history have the years of growing up and passing through the teens been more difficult and challenging than[Read More…]

To the Editor: First, I would like to thank you for the March 22 article regarding River Road and the four options facing the Keizer Traffic Safety, Bikeways and Pedestrian Committee (title here). As a Keizer resident for 42 years, I would like to offer two more options: Option 5—Slow[Read More…]

A neighbor asked me the other day how he could become independently wealthy. Heck, if I knew that I would become independently weathly myself. Independently wealthy means one earns it on their own from the very first dollar. An old phrase said that if you built a better mousetrap, the world[Read More…]

“At the end of the day, if you aren’t covered in black dust and dirt, then you didn’t work hard enough. You gotta get that fire blood all over you to know you did a good job.” We all heard this as we stood in a line. Each soldier held[Read More…]

President Donald Trump, meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic rising star who tracks mud across the legal system the same way you do, but his dirty footprints win accolades from the mainstream media. Last week Newsom signed an executive order granting execution reprieves for all 737 inmates on California’s[Read More…]