Guest Opinion
Feb. 4 guest opinion: Did Reagan raise taxes? Let GOP candidates answer
published: 2/3/2012 2:16:57 PM
Politicians and their flacks lie every day, but it is unusual for someone prominent to utter a totally indefensible falsehood like the whopper that recently sprang from the mouth of Eric Cantor’s press secretary on national television.
Feb. 8 guest opinion: Stopping the rush to war against Iran
published: 2/7/2012 2:57:40 PM
A growing group of individuals and organizations designated Feb. 4 as a “National Day of Action,” aimed at preventing a war against Iran. The manifesto was simple: “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations.
Feb. 11 guest opinion: Why Oregonians deserve the right to work
published: 2/10/2012 11:34:17 AM
The 22 states that have not required workers to join a union and pay union dues have enjoyed, as a group, more rapid employment and income growth, better job preservation, and faster recoveries from recession.
Feb. 15 guest opinion: City councilor’s comments completely out of line
published: 2/14/2012 12:35:22 PM
I was appalled by Councilor McKinney’s comments and grandstanding in front of the Boy Scouts at the Feb. 6 Newberg City Council meeting. On the agenda that evening was the McClures’ request to withdraw their annexation into the city.
Feb. 18 guest opinion: Will Catholic bishops and religious right save Obama?
published: 2/17/2012 1:49:06 PM
What is most striking about the showdown over contraceptive freedom is not the political victory that President Obama earned by standing up for women’s reproductive rights, although his Republican adversaries are certainly helping him to make the most of it.
Feb. 22 guest opinion: No one should be forced to act against his or her conscience
published: 2/21/2012 2:58:03 PM
A question arises from the recent controversy between President Obama and the Catholic Church that aches for an answer: If Catholic institutions have a right to abstain from paying for what morally offends them, why don’t the rest of us? The initial Obamacare rule held that all employers, in fulfilling their new legal requirement to provide health insurance to their employees, must include contraception (and other preventive health services) in the coverage at no cost.
Feb. 25 guest opinion: What endorsements can tell us about political races
published: 2/24/2012 2:38:26 PM
The endorsement of a political candidate by another politician generally draws a well-deserved yawn from voters. But over the past half-century of savoring and covering American politics, I have learned that an endorsement can tell us something quite important about the individual endorsing as well as about the individual being endorsed.
Feb. 29 guest opinion: Measure 49 causes unfair process that never ends
published: 2/28/2012 2:22:13 PM
After reading the Feb. 15 article in The Newberg Graphic about the McClures’ situation, I thought people might be interested to know that there are others who are still floundering with Measure 49 vesting requirements.
