The great thing about art — perhaps even the greatest thing — is that you needn’t be an artist to bask in the reflected glow of those who are.
Thanks to all who are helping during a tough time
The upheavals caused by the coronavirus, unprecedented in the memories of almost everyone alive today, could serve as the plot for a dystopian novel or film.
The list of grievances against the internet is a long and sometimes sordid one.
Unprecedented action needed to curb spread of coronavirus
We’re less than a week into one of the more noteworthy periods in American history, and although only the passage of time will allow us to reflect on the coronavirus crisis with true perspecti…
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We’re less than a week into one of the more noteworthy periods in American history, and although only the passage of time will allow us to reflect on the coronavirus crisis with true perspecti…
As we live through historic events that arrive not every day but every hour, I’m thinking of the future as well as the present.
Shocked by selfish behavior during virus crisis
Running a small business can be a challenge in the most normal of times.
It’s what we don’t know about coronavirus -- what we can’t yet know -- that dictates our response to the early stages of the pandemic.
Baker City has a problem with its streets.
I have gazed into America’s future and what I saw was grown men tossing bean bags at a small hole drilled in a tilted plank of polished wood.
State Sen. Lynn Findley should return to the Capitol
I’ve been hauling around the virus particles for better than 40 years, taking them to mountaintops and to some of Germany’s finest cathedrals, among other scenic sites, and not once have the l…
Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, Senate President Peter Courtney and some other Democrats in the state Legislature are accusing Republicans of failing to do their jobs by leaving Salem to deny…
Government must act boldly on global warming, wealth inequality
My wife said she saw a mosquito on her windshield the second week of February.
Confronting climate change
The Baker County Board of Commissioners has had a couple of puzzling oversights over the past month or so.
Movie director Quentin Tarantino not only dissolved the mystique that has made Charles Manson such an icon for half a century, but the filmmaker showed the criminal and his murderous acolytes …
In the cold calculus of politics, salmon, steelhead and orcas might have more electoral value, in some races, than Baker County voters have.
Abortion question makes me a single-issue voter
Stop spreading Trump’s lies, exaggerations
It’s hardly surprising that some local ranchers are dissatisfied with Oregon’s wolf depredation compensation program.
Why did commissioners even consider a new 2nd Amendment ordinance?
Fighting global warming should be first priority
I recently bought an mp3 player and when I sat down with the user manual to try to figure out how to make it work the only two consecutive words that made sense to me in the entire document we…
Better cell coverage important for rural residents
The Associated Press fact-checked President Trump’s State of the Union speech the day before he gave it. The newsgathering organization, of which the Herald is a member, didn’t have an advance…
The trucks rolled into Salem Thursday morning, the vehicles representing people who have jobs and pay taxes that make possible all manner of government services.
When you write about government inefficiency you risk indulging in cliché, and I strive to avoid the pitfall of predictability.
Trump ignores reality of America’s economy
The Oregon Legislature’s session that started Monday is limited to 35 days, but lawmakers should be able to find time to pass Ezra’s Law.
The ostensible purpose of Oregon’s Public Records Law is both simple and noble.
I was watching TV coverage of President Trump’s impeachment trial the other evening and I couldn’t help but wonder how different things might be if Trump were more like Calvin Coolidge.
Saddened by the loss of newspaper carriers
Baker County’s 2 million acres are divided almost equally between private and public land.
Citizens should voice opposition to cap and trade
The controversy over Verizon Wireless’ application to build a 70-foot cell tower in north Baker City has spurred interest among some residents in a topic that generally draws scant attention: zoning.
“What was it like?”
A relatively tranquil winter turned rabid this week in Northeastern Oregon.
I once examined a kidney stone, fresh from my own bladder (albeit rinsed with tap water), and I was appalled.
Verizon has other options
Two hours.
For me it all started what seems a long time ago, in a town quite a ways from Baker City.
Teenager inspires nation to show that it’s united
America’s current conflict with Iran thus far has been, on balance, positive for the U.S.
The word “news” is, you’ve no doubt noticed, pretty much the same as “new.”
Whatever you think about Verizon’s proposal to build a 70-foot cell tower in North Baker City, you should be troubled by one claim in the appeal the company filed after the Baker City Planning…
I have for many years — many more, indeed, than I would prefer — harbored an irrational fear of being stuck with nothing good to read.
City needs to reject Verizon’s proposed cell tower
Happy New Year! The calendar has taken another faithful leap from the end of one year to the beginning of another and hopes are running high. January is often prime time for personal and profe…
The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper, announced this week that as of Jan. 2 its website, OregonLive, will stop accepting and posting reader comments.
Baker High School’s football team shouldn’t have to drive most of the way to the Pacific Ocean to play a nonleague game.
On Nov. 5, 1994, I guided my slightly decrepit but always dogged International Scout II through the drifts of an early blizzard, at the risk of getting mired and possibly having to set the sea…