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Editorial: Best fix for health care fix is by players
President Obama last Monday made an effort to bolster his case for a far-reaching overhaul of the health care system by latching on to the news that a California insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, was seeking double-digit rate increases for many of its 800,000 individual policyholders.
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Tea Party becoming potent for the establishment
No one has vested more hope in the tea-party movement than the Democrats. For all the scorn and abuse they’ve heaped on the tea-partiers, they’ve counted on them for salvation.
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Editorial: Silver lining elusive in Measures 66, 67
Though we’ve seen many initiatives and candidates not go our way in our decades of journalism experience here on The New Era staff, it’s hard to think of any that have left us as disillusioned as the recent passage of Measures 66 and 67.
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Editorial: GOP gets opportunity, but can it capitalize?
The election of Republican Scott Brown last week in Massachusetts last week to the U.S. Senate seat vacated last summer when Sen. Ted Kennedy died of cancer has GOP leaders crowing.
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Sprenger backs bill in support of woody biomass industry
Rep. Sherrie Sprenger, R-Scio, partnered with Rep. Jim Thompson, R-Dallas, and introduced House Bill 3608 last week before the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee to advocate for jobs and the viability of the timber industry.
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Don’t kill the goose; no on 66 and 67
Deciding whether to vote for or against ballot measures can be frustrating and confusing, particularly after you’ve been subjected to the typical barrage of TV commercials and arguments for or against the issue in question.
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New laws target cell phones, DUII, more
With the advent of the new year, a variety of new laws are in effect in Oregon.
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‘Climategate’ should raise our temps
You may not hear too much about “Climategate” on your favorite TV news channel – depending on which one that is, of course – but there’s a lot of talk going on out there about the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit.
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Governmental inaction can be positive
This could go onto our regular pages as a news story, but it’s funny and deserving of more attention than a mere paragraph would give it.
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Candidate for governor says background can bring change
John Lim, a legislator from the Gresham area who has announced he is running for governor, wants to attract business and jobs to Oregon and find a place for Oregon in international trade.
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