Columnists
Other Views: An open letter to Rep. Cliff Bentz
Cliff — What happened to you? When we served together in the Oregon Legislature, I always found you to be ...
Letters
Letter: Trump administration’s actions hurt us all
For the past 250 years, our nation has enjoyed a three-branch system of governance that ensures there are ...
Letters
Letter: American Democracy is being threatened
I’ve lived through 22 presidential elections and I have never been as scared as I am now. I ...
Letters
Letter: Wrong way to enact a “noble ideal”
I respect Cliff Heck’s right to write his letter to the editor on President Donald Trump and his ...
Letters
Letter: Trump is the right one for the job
Upon learning that no letter to the editor supporting the current president has been received by the East ...
Opinion
Our View: Oregon lawmakers can prevent news deserts
There were days when owning a local newspaper was like a license to print money. Advertisers didn’t have ...
Letters
Letter: Who needs “backbones and principles” anyway?
“We cannot escape history,” as Abraham Lincoln said. But we can learn a lot from it, like how ...
Letters
Letter: Time is now to reform U.S. education
As a member of Generation Z and as a college student, I would like to shed some light ...
Opinion
Our View: A fork in the road for democracy
In his bid for a second term in the White House, Donald Trump campaigned in part on a ...
Opinion
Our View: Trump’s spending freeze too vague, sudden
President Donald Trump didn’t need to sow concern about whether federal dollars would continue to flow to communities ...