So the Salem Statesman-Journal (a Gannett paper) runs this editorial in its on-line forum:
Going to college more crucial now than ever
Families must find a way to support youths’ educations
November 6, 2007
If you’re the parent of a young student and you can’t imagine how you’ll afford college for him or her, please stop that thought at [...]

One of the most depressing aspects of peak oil is the way it’s going to challenge our thinking. Even most peak aware folks tend to drift easily into a substitutionalist fantasy, thinking about how this or that magic bullet solution is going to allow business as usual to continue.
The thought of proactively reorganizing social [...]

There’s little time to spare if you haven’t already visited the Campaign to Save the Net and told the FCC to ensure Net Neutrality.  Without it, you are going to find that the Net you know is not the one that survives, because the Telcos will be free to start cutting deals with providers based [...]

Oregon League of Conservation Voters has a blog where they have asked for your ideas for the next Legislative session — so dream big!   The only stupid ideas are the ones that no one ever expresses, because all the rest can spark something better, even if it’s not such a hot idea in itself.
So hit [...]

A message from the freepress campaign, working to keep the series of tubes a place where anyone can communicate. Once again, all categories checked, because keeping the Internet open is important to every issue:
Last week, a quarter-million people came out in force to tell the Federal Communications Commission to open the public airwaves [...]

Dear George,
Tell Your Story to the FCC
Read Other Stories
Phone and cable company lobbyists are attacking Internet freedom again in Washington. But people from every corner of the country are rising up to stop them. You can help by taking five minutes to save the Internet.
The FCC needs to hear your story about why an open [...]

The Achievement Gap is real and important. Our schools must address this issue in a positive and assertive fashion that allows for the educational growth of all students. Eugene School District 4j, where I taught for 33 years, seems to support the adopting of a one-size-fits-all reading and writing curriculum. Under this program. [...]

(This affects you no matter what substantive issues you are most interested in. Driving out small publishers will do to our discourse what Sprawl-Mart does to Main Street businesses in Oregon.)
POST OFFICE TO END 215 YEARS OF SUPPORT OF A FREE PRESS
BOB MCCHESNEY - The U.S. Post Office is in the process of [...]

The present underfunded situation of education in Oregon can be traced to Ballot Measure 5 that was passed in 1990. For review, passage of Measure 5 shifted the primary funding of education from property tax to state income tax. Let’s look briefly at Oregon’s tax structure to gain perspective…

I can already imagine the praise the Oregonian will heap on Senator Gordon Smith for voting against the budget bill today. They’ll write about how he stood up for the working poor, the elderly and young students struggling to make it through college on their government student loans. Yup, the editors at the [...]