October 16, 2009 02:57 pm
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Letters and Comments for October 16, 2009
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October 15, 2009 03:13 pm
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Shhh, don’t tell anybody, but Eastern Oregon University football has become one of the best entertainment bargains in town. Coach Tim Camp’s Mountaineers enter Saturday’s homecoming game with Western Montana with a 5-2 record and ranked No. 19 in the country. EOU is only one win away from doing something it has done only eight times in 80 years — win six games in one year.
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October 15, 2009 03:12 pm
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Letters and Comments for October 15, 2009
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October 15, 2009 03:07 pm
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If this is Indian Summer, it must be the Inuit version.
The indigenous people of the Arctic and Subarctic, feeling in a generous mood, have sent us plenty of unseasonably cool weather this October.
Neither rain, snow, sleet or hail can stop the Inuit. Nor can it stop the post office. But a federal holiday can stop the post office and its friendly, helpful, courteous employees in their tracks.
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October 14, 2009 03:22 pm
October 14, 2009 03:20 pm
A sense of community is often said to be lacking in much of the modern
world, particularly in the big cities. Community standards are slowly
eroding. Prison systems are bursting at the seams with criminals, many
of whom having been laid low by drugs. Social problems including family
breakdown run rampant.
Some organizations, however, are fighting this erosion and trying to
preserve strong, vital communities. The local Drug-Free Relay is one
such organization. The 12th annual relay conducted recently in La
Grande helped build a sense of community. The relay, its organizers and
participants took a stand that says we want La Grande to be a safe,
enjoyable place to live and raise a family, and to do that we must make
wise decisions about drug use.
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October 13, 2009 03:13 pm
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Letters and Comments for October 13, 2009
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October 12, 2009 02:31 pm
October 12, 2009 02:30 pm
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The state treasurer’s office should have used a little more common
sense before it decided to dole out bonuses to 11 employees in his
office this year. The economic times that we’re in should have given
Treasurer Ben Westlund a clue that this isn’t a year for bonuses. It
makes sense that the Legislature’s Joint Ways and Means Committee wants
to review the practice.
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October 09, 2009 03:01 pm
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