December 13, 2022, 3:11 pm 22 comments in the last 30 days.
6 Crucial Business Travel Tips.

Business travel is an essential business aspect. Traveling for business allows you to network with other industry professionals while meeting new people and connecting with prospective customers.

June 3, 2023, 6:13 pm 4 comments in the last 30 days.
Disconnecting War from Its Consequences.

Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. Sanity lost in the House, 420-1. It lost in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s lone vote for sanity remains a tiny light of courageous hope flickering in a chaotic world.

September 10, 2010, 4:30 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
9/11 Reflections Part 1: The Elephant and the Mosquito.

What happens when a mosquito bites an elephant? The answer to this question lies at the intersection between myth and reality. The Big Lies, Grand Illusions, and Great Myths of our age are stories of the elephant and the mosquito.

October 24, 2010, 6:33 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
Award Winning Original Roots Bluegrass Band to Appear at Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center.

Doran Productions and the Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center will host an evening of family friendly, outstandingly entertaining original roots bluegrass with the award-winning group Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising. Celebrating their 5th year together, 2010 has been a banner season for the band, with the release of their 3rd CD - a gospel recording called "Walk Humbly", 47 performances, a partnership with Brian Farrish Radio Promotions, and the recent win of the $10,000 prize in the 2010 International City Love Music Contest with a song about band leader Kathy Boyd's home town of Clatskanie, Oregon

August 31, 2023, 1:21 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
Creating Art: If It's Fun, It's Alive.

As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring. Art — what is it again? Why does it matter? How does it matter? What does it mean to be “good” at it?

September 11, 2023, 3:10 am 2 comments in the last 30 days.
Dorece Sam: SLAPP Suits and Dirty Deals.

When you look at a gleaming new electric vehicle what do you see? We love our cars, that is not in question, and our new technologies- and lithium mining for batteries for these vehicles is where it all begins. There are problems of policy, of the enforcement of laws, and of environmental inequality and landscape destruction.

March 7, 2011, 9:07 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
General Strike Called in Wisconsin.

A general strike against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s program to eviscerate unions and social services is now a certainty. The only questions remaining about the strike are the timing and extent.

January 2, 2024, 12:41 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
New Year's Day Shooting Death in Mt. Angel.

Monday morning, just before 6:00 a.m., a 911 caller reported a man had been shot near Marquam Street in Mt. Angel. Deputies arrived on scene and located one victim with serious injuries. Attempts to provide emergency medical assistance to the man were not successful, he was pronounced deceased at the scene.

February 3, 2021, 12:37 am 2 comments in the last 30 days.
Rumination on the Trump Deplorables.

Were we better off January 20 than we were four years ago? The answer is a definite “NO.” I am still trying, however, without much success, to understand why 74+ million Americans voted to re-elect Trump when for four years he has embarrassed himself and this nation with his ignorance, ineptness, and lack of human decency. During the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” Who are these deplorables?

June 7, 2023, 3:07 pm 2 comments in the last 30 days.
U.S. Navy Arriving in Portland for Rose Festival Fleet Week.

Sailors assigned to two U.S. Navy ships,USS Kansas City (LCS 22) and USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) will join crews on vessels from the U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy in Portland to participate in annual Portland Rose Festival activities, June 7-11. It is a significant commitment by the Navy to make Rose Festival Fleet Week one of the premier Fleet Week events in the country.