I am writing this letter in support of Will Sheppy for Zone 2, Greater Albany Public Schools Board. The election will be on May 18, and I enco…
Now more than ever, Corvallis schools need Dr. Sami Al-AbdRabbuh to continue the work of equity and inclusion on our school board.
I worry about Corvallis businesses. If you’re a Corvallis business owner, or anyone, really, and you have not heard of Martin v. City of Boise…
Many readers may not be aware this is a school board election year.
I read the front page story in the April 10 Democrat-Herald with dismay.
John Larsen’s letter in the opinion pages (“Wow, Georgia, I am impressed,” April 2) gave me a good chuckle when he accused Georgia of being th…
I just discovered something too good not to share.
Let’s put the money from big corporations in our own pockets while motivating them to compete, innovate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I was pondering what being net zero by 2050 meant, and is it even attainable?
The decision to remove police officers from school entrances sheds light on a much deeper, more serious issue: the refusal of many in this com…
In the March 24 DH, “Albany works to set utility fee rate” tells about something which apparently has been part of the budget discussions for …
Nearly one in three adults in the US has been incarcerated. In our area it costs about $81,000 to incarcerate an individual inmate for each ye…
We will soon be hearing much about “thoughts and prayers” for the victims of the latest mass killings, but we will also hear a great hue and c…
I just finished reading the April 8 article about Greater Albany Public Schools’ decision not to have uniformed police officers greet students…
Thank you to Superintendent Goff and Chief Harnden for their leadership, flexibility and empathy on the sensitive and controversial issue of p…
Thank you, President Trump, for superb business abilities and Operation Warp Speed. This leadership produced three vaccines for COVID-19 that …
You know, anymore you can read the local newspaper and become less informed about an issue you never knew existed, and once you’ve been made a…
I am writing to all of us who love Corvallis as our home.
I just read the article suggesting the Albany superintendent of schools wants to pause the practice of police greeting children on the first d…
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” — John Donne, poet, soldier, cleric scholar, 1572-1631
I’m writing in response to a letter in the April 2 paper about a bill to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction.
In late February, Gov. Brown’s office announced the Columbia Basin Collaborative.
It’s business as usual in the U.S. in some ways. We wouldn’t force the rich pharmaceutical companies to share their vaccine formulas so that t…
I am writing to tell you how fortunate we are to have some people with high standards and values running for the Corvallis School Board.
One of the great things about retirement has been the ability to pursue interests I never had time for back when all my energy was, of necessi…
Mitch McConnell, upset at the stance some big businesses have taken after Georgia decided to make it more difficult for people to vote, stated…
I have doubts that an unelected “nonpartisan independent commission” as described by Rep. Boshart Davis (April 6 DH) is the solution to gerrym…