Category Opinion

The photos we won’t show you

The first photo is a group of three McNary High School students in various stages of lounging while movies play as part of an all-day film festival for youth members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) community. Two on the floor, one…

Four weeks in, major bills getting play

File As the fourth week of session comes to a close, cap and trade and rent control have proven to be the most controversial issues as of yet. The cap and trade bill (LC 894) was originally 98 pages and has now been turned into…

Choose River Road options wisely

Lyndon A. Zaitz The options a consulting firm presented at a recent open house for a revitalized River Road will not please everyone, especially commuters. One of the options unveiled at the Feb. 12 open house at Keier Civic Center called for removing the center…

Will the real Post please stand up?

Rep. Bill Post built his name locally as an entertaining, sometimes bombastic talk radio host who delighted in aggravating the left and affirming the right’s beliefs. These skills put him in a position to run for the Oregon Legislature, but it was in many ways…

Debate over ISIS bride

In 2014, Hoda Muthana, then 20 years old, left Alabama to become an ISIS bride in Syria. When she left the United States, she posted her passport on her Twitter account and implied she was about to burn it. Now Muthana wants to return to…

I-5 Crossing at Columbia River

To the Editor: Presently, there isn’t enough money available to replace the aging I-5 bridge in the manner currently envisioned. But there still might be a way to build the badly needed replacement by constructing a new crossing in stages.  Phase one: Build a northbound span. Include…

Senior park rents out of control

To the Editor: Well, they’ve done it this time. This mobile park and many others have been bought by two different investor groups from California. All of us have been seething over the rent increases in the last several years. Over the last three years our…

The ‘fakes first’ media

By L. BRENT BOZELL III AND TIM GRAHAM The left would expect mere mortals to understand that as opposed to them, the left rises above the rumormongering and misinformation of social media. As with so much else regarding the left, that’s nonsense. It cuts, pastes…

The emergency? Triviality of politics

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned that President Trump would declare a national emergency to shift around money to finance his border wall, her denunciation was predictable. But her way of expressing outrage was not. The issue she used to make her point was important…