Letters to the Editor: Feb. 3, 2017
Letters by Anita VanDatta, Elizabeth DeVisser, Adrianne Santina, Vyrle Owens, Emily Kerrigan, Ron Morton, Robert Wilson, Robert Porath and Fred Fawcett.
Letters to the Editor: Jan. 20, 2017
Clear roads I’d just like to say how extremely satisfied I am with the city services during the recent snowfall. Roads were cleared, utilities were taken care of, emergency services were up and ...
Letters to the Editor: Jan. 13, 2017
Councilor off base I realize that I lost the election to Kevin Jeffries in 2014, but that has been behind me for a long time. I am writing about how Jeffries has done some good things and some terrible ...
Letters to the Editor: Jan. 6, 2017
Be prepared This past weekend, my family had an opportunity to test our preparedness for the Big One (the magnitude 9.0 Cascadia earthquake we are expecting any time). Last Friday, we discovered a major ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 30, 2016
Inherit the dirt Donald Trump promised the moon and is already delivering dirt clods. He said he would threaten Carrier into keeping all its jobs in the United States. In the end, Carrier got a $7 million ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 23, 2016
Shelter needed This letter is a speculation on possible alternatives to the system-wide shutdown of homeless shelters during the recent cold spell. For those who can’t turn up the thermostat or ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 16, 2016
Letter from Santa From: Santa To: America. We are behind schedule in making toys and may be a tad late in coming down your chimneys. The problems started when Trump began his presidential ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 2, 2016
Dog a real problem I am sure the incident of the lady who shot the “running dogs” is a horrible nightmare for her and her family. There is undoubtedly more to this story than the incident ...
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 25, 2016
Justice was served Let’s get this straight. Two years ago, a Latino member of our community walks into a 7-Eleven across from Linfield College and stabs to death our student athlete, Parker Archie ...
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 18, 2016
Fight hatred The post-election hate speech, bullying and physical violence toward people whose race, religion, heritage, sexual preference or mobility differs from our own is both frightening and unAmerican. We ...
Letters to the Editor - Nov. 28, 2014: Sept. 30, 2016
Don’t disturb Fox Ridge For years many of us have enjoyed and valued Fox Ridge Road as a mile-long escape from urban stress. It’s a winding country road with wild turkey and deer crossings; ...
Letters to the Editor: Sept. 9, 2016
Reject hate speech On August 5, you published a letter that I cannot describe as anything but racist. For a month I have pondered how to respond. This letter was written in response to the comments ...
Letters to the Editor: Sept. 2, 2016
Health costs too high Why is it that Canada (and every other industrial nation) can provide first class health care to its citizens at half the cost we spend in the good ol’ USA? I believe, plain ...
Letters to the Editor: Aug. 19, 2016
Time for tough love Every week for the last several weeks, the homeless issue is at the forefront of local news, especially here at home and in Portland. The Aug. 2 News-Register article “Street ...
Letters to the Editor: Aug. 5, 2016
Pool hardly a success This is my response to Pat Swanick’s July 29 Viewspoints commentary, “A community success story.” Just to be clear this is Andrew Davis, the non-winemaker. How ...
