What do we know about the crusades? Almost nothing, I bet. So President Obama might have done everybody a favor with his ill-considered reference to events going back almost a thousand years. He caused some of us to try to refresh what we we read about in school — and in comic books about Richard […]
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is wasting its time with its newly launched inquiry into the consulting work of Governor Kitzhaber’s longtime girlfriend and now fiancee. Unless the facts differ from what has been widely reported, this was not a question of laws being broken. It was a matter of lousy judgment on the part of […]
Albany’s first fenced dog park is taking shape, but not without controversy. A representative of the Northwest branch of the Familiy Motor Coach Association has complained to the city that the dog park takes up space the association had used to park 100 motor homes during its rallies at the Linn County Fair and Expo […]
A little item in the log of the Benton County Sheriff’s Office could foreshadow part of our future, a future full of drones. It was Sunday afternoon (March 23) when someone called the sheriff’s office from the Adair County Park, where a disc golf tournament was under way. “There was worry,” the log says, “about people […]
Linn County, too, is preparing to jump on the local-government bandwagon of banning for a year the medical marijuana dispensaries the 2013 Oregon legislature had tried to allow.
Picture yourself on one of our winding two-lane roads through the hills, and for some reason yours is not the only vehicle on the road. OK, so maybe it is a nice afternoon, and lots of other people are driving home from the beach. The weather is good and the pavement dry, so why is that […]
On Dec. 22, a 16-year-old driver from Brownsville lost her life when her vehicle crossed the center line in a right-hand curve on Highway 228 in Linn County and collided with the front end of a tow truck coming the other way. It was what the Oregon State Police called a “road departure crash,” the kind we always […]
