Op-Ed

Benton County is in the heart of the Willamette Valley – a lush, fertile valley in western Oregon. Here in the Willamette Valley we are blessed with a climate …

Change starts with action, and each of us has a way to contribute.

Are we capitalism junkies?

Rice defended the Bush administration's lies about the supposed ‘Iraqi threat’ in the run-up to the Iraq War.

The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …

Of course, old people should know these things too, and some small percentage does know them, but energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people …

It's important to remember that no matter what the Supreme Court decides, marriage equality is not the end. In fact, it is only the beginning.

Shamus Cooke: The US and its European allies want regime change in Syria, and they are prepared to allow many more people to die to make it so.

It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society ... Sadly, the classrooms of this country haven't been spared.

Delighted attendee Gupta opines that while the Coachella music and arts festival ‘may be the zenith of hipster culture’ - with extraordinary food choices, music, flamboyancy and release, drugs …