In case voters didn’t know it, the stock market reminded us all that the re-election of President Obama was a bad deal for the American economy. The day after the election, the stock market plunged. It was the biggest decline of 2012, according to the Associated Press. Obama doesn’t bear the entire blame. Bad economic […]
Albany’s prolonged fussing about electronic message signs at schools and the like now seems to be at an end. It seemed to be a lot of anguish over not much. It started when the booster club at West Albany High School wanted to replace the school’s aging sign out front on Queen Avenue with a […]
Voting by mail had nothing to do with the Clackamas County elections scandal. But state and county officials could have done a far better job of handling this affair. The main thing is, they should have pressed their investigation in order to get to the bottom of it well before the last day to cast […]
Fresh air? Forget it
Things must really be going great in Oregon. How else to explain the results of the general election? At the state level, all the office holders got re-elected. All our five members of Congress will stay in the House. And the Democrats, who have been in charge of state government for years, regain full control […]
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