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
October 08, 2009 03:10 pm
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As the debate over field burning raged in Salem the past couple of legislative sessions, it appears that the controversy has diminished in Union County. Increasingly Union County’s grass seed growers and other farmers who have traditionally burned their fields have been doing a better and better job of controlling when and how they burn.
The bill that was passed in the Legislature that will eliminate field burning exempted Eastern Oregon, where the problems associated with burning have become less and less noticeable.
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October 08, 2009 03:09 pm
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Letters and Comments for October 8, 2009
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October 08, 2009 03:05 pm
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“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.”
— Robert E. Lee
Confederate general
Civil War
No, my new T-shirt does not say, “Watch your beagle. Vick’s an Eagle.”
That’s in reference, of course, to quarterback Michael Vick’s return to the National Football League after a dog abuse conviction and subsequent incarceration.
My new T-shirt proclaims, “I’m already against the next war.”
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