When the Oregon legislature approved a special deal for Nike and possibly other job-creating companies last month, it threw a bone to rural areas in the state. But it doesn’t look as though it means anything, at least in the case of Nike. In the one-day special session on Dec. 14, lawmakers approved a bill […]
Sarah Helmick State Park in Polk County makes a nice destination for a ride or drive, even in winter. Winter or summer, the park on the Luckiamute River is never crowded.
The day after Christmas, a Benton County deputy pulled over a 22-year-old man in the town of Monroe, in southern Benton County. The sheriff ‘s log says the deputy cited the driver for having neither a driver’s license nor insurance. And while he was at it, he also gave him a citation for “unlawful possession […]
Here’s a timely reminder about something we can do for the wild birds in our Oregon backyards this winter, even though on a day like Friday afternoon it seemed, for a brief time, like spring.
When not much else is going on, it’s always fun to talk about the weather and how unusual it has been. On New Year’s Day, for example, the Albany paper had a story about the “extreme weather,” so-called, of 2012. On closer examination, it was not all that extreme. Yes, it was a pretty wet […]
Congress and the president may have avoided pushing the country off the fiscal cliff. But they didn’t solve the deeper problem. The problem is that the government is spending one dollar for every 60 cents it takes in, and then it has to borrow the rest. In the long run, that has to destroy the […]
Thinking about the start of the new year: May it be as sunny as Day 1.
