On Veterans Day we honor veterans, not war. Whatever your views about the rightness or wrongness of war or the particular wars we are engaged in, let us distinguish between the veterans and the policies that sent them to war. Veterans know war is not noble or heroic: It is ugly, violent, …
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What this country needs - even more than a shorter baseball season so the World Series doesn't go into November - is a popular uprising against the tyranny of telephone robots.
Nov 07, 2009 | 11:45 pm | Loading…
Oregon State University's impact on Corvallis is an overwhelmingly positive one. It will surely be even more so when the vision for OSU in 2025 outlined by President Ed Ray becomes reality.
Oct 27, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
The Oct. 19 editorial, "In politics, experience does have value," cavalierly suggests that political experience trumps all other experience when it comes to governing the state.
Oct 26, 2009 | 10:35 am | Loading…
When I was 12 years old in 1962, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had the tumor removed surgically and had a normal recovery. She was told that everything was fine. A couple of months later, my father arranged for the two of them to take an extended trip to Europe. And aft…
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October is National Arts and Humanities Month. Oct. 8 is the Oregon Day of Culture, marking the anniversary of Oregon's unique cultural tax credit.
Oct 05, 2009 | 3:30 am | Loading…
WASHINGTON - By their nature, insurance schemes involve a transfer of money from winners to losers. Everyone who buys fire insurance pays a premium calculated on the basis of a handful of factors that insurance companies use to estimate the probability of a fire. In the end, however, the …
Oct 01, 2009 | 2:30 am | Loading…
The Sierra Club is trying to get students at universities including Oregon State to agitate against the use of coal as an energy source. The campaign is misguided. Let's hope it fails.
Sep 20, 2009 | 3:00 am | Loading…
When Tammy Jeffries first came to see me five Septembers ago, she was elegantly dressed, wearing a neatly styled wig.
Sep 20, 2009 | 2:00 am | Loading…
With the onset of school and cooler weather, we face the start of another cold and flu season. Flu experts are warning that this year may be particularly severe. In addition to the seasonal flu, we expect outbreaks of novel H1N1 "swine" flu. This is the new virus that emerged last spring,…
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