Editorials

Our View: Oregon should try cloud seeding

A member of the Oregon Legislature is curious. He wants to know whether seeding clouds could produce more…

Editorials

Our View: Why a long-shot proposal remains popular

The odds are overwhelmingly against a large swath of eastern Oregon ever being patriated to Idaho. Yet the…

Columnists

Commentary: Oregon Kids’ Credit a winner

Ending poverty is doable. That’s what our nation learned after Congress temporarily strengthened the Child Tax Credit. It’s…

Editorials

Our View: Oregon needs a many-pronged attack to improve nursing

Oregon and the United States face a nursing shortage. A significant number of nurses are nearing retirement. An…

Editorials

Our view: Support your local fire department: volunteer

When your house is on fire, you expect the fire department to come and put it out. But…

Editorials

Our view: The bottom line on housing

It’s hard to answer the question: When is housing considered affordable? The people who do this work will…

Editorials

Our View: Getting ahead of the antihunters

However unlikely it might be that a majority of Oregon voters would agree to ban hunting, fishing, rodeos…

Editorials

From the editor’s desk: Feb. 13, 2023

The Blue Mountain Eagle said goodbye to an old friend last week. It was a vintage Champion paper…

Columnists

Commentary: Oregon must stop outsourcing policy to California bureaucrats

At the end of last year, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted rules banning the sale of internal…

Columnists

Farmer’s Fate: The family that bathes together

Bean burritos from the local gas station are how we have always celebrated our wedding anniversary. Sixteen years…

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