Opinion

Editor’s note: Typically, we offer up advice to our local graduates in our issue before Sweet Home High…

Editor: Thanks to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, for the past seven years Colorado has provided intrauterine devices…

Scott Swanson I confess that I don’t observe Memorial Day the way it was intended. I can blame…

We appreciate the dedication of our City Council members to keeping Sweet Home on an even keel financially…

Editor: I had a yard ornament in the shape of a goose, cut out of wood, about 22…

As the world careens along through wave after wave of bad news – wars and rumors of wars,…

Editor: Ballot Measure 91 gives you, the city’s residents, the vote/the say over whether to have a dry…

Law enforcement is a demanding calling, full of pressure and dangers that most of us “civilian” citizens really…

Editor: Last week’s editorial (April 29) really points out an area that needs to be addressed by the…

Editor: Several weeks ago volunteers at the East Linn Museum and the Sweet Home Genealogical Society were surprised…

Editor: If I wanted an “It’s Great to be Straight Cake” to celebrate my son’s coming out of…

Editor: Will transgender men who convert to women lose their U.S. constitutional rights/guaranties of equality? Does that mean…

Editor: After reading the editorial on the fifth-year high school program (April 22), there was much I agreed…

This year’s School Board election is shaping up to be, we hate to say it, a bit of…

Editor: Regarding Northside Park: Last summer, due to complaints of drug sales, the entire line of mature, flowering…

Politics can be a harsh business and some of the folks in Salem aren’t really our friends, no…

Editor: On Saturday, April 11, I took my mother, Donna Davis, to the cemetery to put flowers on…

Editor: I was deeply troubled this past week upon hearing our president speak disparagingly of Christians as hypocrites.…

Editor: The dairy industry markets their products as being good foods which are healthy, especially for our bones.…

Editor: If you love someone then you should be able to marry them. Even President Obama said so.…

The state’s going to pot, and now the question is whether Sweet Home is. This week’s City Council…

Editor: Laws like these Religious Freedom Restoration Acts are how the Republicans/corporations slowly take your rights and protections…

Editor: LGBTs are “offended” by the refusal to accept their values by those opposed to them. Have you…

Editor: Jeff Goodwin is proposing we re-vote on the marijuana issue in Sweet Home (April 1). This is…

Scott Swanson Ten years ago, April 1, was a Monday, a bit cold and rainy, as I recall.…