If you are a hardcore member of the Federalist Society, I’m thinking you can happily trust the U.S. Supreme Court these days.
Oregon is in the midst of several simultaneous crises.
Would students notice if we did not renew the local option levy that helps fund Corvallis schools?
City governments in the mid-Willamette Valley make proclamations on a regular basis on matters both large and small.
My father was neither a constitutional scholar nor a theologian. In fact, with his high school education, he delivered letters for the post office for 44 years in our small south Texas hometown.
Jade Carey brought star power and enchanted Oregon State fans during a magical season that ended with a fourth-place finish in the all-around at the NCAA gymnastics championships last week.
President Biden has a terrible dilemma, caught between the ghosts of World War II and the new realities of a nuclear war!
Prognostications on climate change and human civilization come in two extreme versions.
A contest for the presidency between Sen. Bernie Sanders and former President Donald Trump seems highly improbable.
I had questions about the Lebanon school district bond measure on the May 17 ballot, so I did some research, starting at the Lebanon Community Schools website.
The current interest to increase housing supply may be missing the mark. Does continuous building solve the housing issues? What else could be at play?
Need something to listen to this week? Check out some recent episodes from various podcasts from around the country.
There are politicians and commentators claim that immigrants, and unauthorized immigrants in particular, commit a lot of crime. Are these claims true? The topic is discussed in this week's episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast.
Read through the obituaries published today in Gazette-Times.
The Albany Democrat-Herald and Corvallis Gazette-Times won first place in general excellence in the Northwest Excellence in Journalism 2021 Awards.
About 75 community members gathered at the Benton County Courthouse Thursday night to commemorate the most recent lives lost to hate crimes — the Buffalo ten and Dr. John Cheng of Laguna Woods, CA.
Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Gazette-Times.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has overturned a decision to grant parole to a man who killed three people during a bar robbery in 1980. Timothy Pauley was 21 when he and associate Scott Carl Smith robbed the Barn Door Tavern near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, shooting two men and strangling a woman. The state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board last month unanimously found Pauley rehabilitated. It said he completed years of counseling for drug and alcohol abuse and for post-traumatic stress disorder for a workplace injury he suffered before the killings. But Inslee said he did not believe Pauley's rehabilitation was complete because he did not apologize to the victims' families.
A state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for a formal investigation into a ballot-printing fiasco that will delay results from Tuesday's primary by weeks in the state's third-largest county, with a key U.S. House race hanging in the balance. The call from Democratic Rep. Janelle Bynum comes amid mounting pressure on Clackamas County Elections Clerk Sherry Hall, who has overseen elections in the suburban county south of Portland for nearly 20 years. As many as 60,000 ballots are unreadable by vote-counting machines because of blurry barcodes and the voter's intent must be transferred by hand to a new ballot in each instance.
State Rep. Andrea Salinas has won the Democratic primary in Oregon’s new 6th U.S. House district. Salinas, who has maintained her lead as more ballots have been counted from Tuesday’s primary, would be Oregon’s first Hispanic congresswoman if elected in November. She was endorsed by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a standard-bearer for the party’s progressive wing. Earlier this week Democratic candidate Carrick Flynn had said he was conceding to Salinas. On the Republican side Mike Erickson, a Lake Oswego businessman, has advanced to the November election in the 6th. Money poured into the Democratic race for a newly created District seat that featured Flynn, a relatively unknown political newcomer backed by a cryptocurrency kingpin and Salinas.
An invasive European green crab was captured in Hood Canal, the farthest south the species has been found in the Salish Sea. The Seattle Times reports volunteers with Washington Sea Grant trapped the male European green crab this week in Nick’s Lagoon near Seabeck in Kitsap County. The organization has been tasked by the state with early detection of the crab’s spread. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will increase trapping there to assess the scope of the green crab presence and try to locally eradicate the species. The crab preys on juvenile clams before they reach harvestable age, out-competes native crab species, and wreaks havoc on marine and estuary ecosystems.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Lebanon man accused of committing multiple sex crimes against a minor.
The Lebanon Fire District responded to a structure fire early Friday morning, May 20 at a shop in rural Lebanon.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Lebanon man for allegedly sexually abusing a minor.
The cause of death of a 17-month-old girl in Albany was drowning, according to a social media post from the Albany Police Department.
The "Betsy Brigades" are revving up to move into the Oregon political scene, carrying the message of the insurgent moderate seeking to become just the second independent governor in state history.
House Speaker Dan Rayfield of Corvallis announced the task force on Thursday, May 19.
The November race for a seat on the Benton County Board of Commissioners will come down to the incumbent against the unopposed Republican now that Pat Malone has jumped way ahead of his Democratic opponent in unofficial primary election results.
This is how big the gap is between how much the city expects to take in and how much it expects to spend — and how officials plan to bridge it.