(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 earliest years I have any memory of were in Dallas, Texas, where I lived until age 10. According to the old saying, that makes me a Texan forever … though I have pretty much totally recovered I think. But with the uber-reactionary Dallas Morning News coming to its senses on the death [...]

As a veteran enjoying a marriage approaching 24 years now, I continue to remain mystified by the arguments that discrimination against gays and lesbians is somehow “pro-family” or necessary for a civilized society.
We need to get the state out of the marriage business — marriages ought to be left up to churches/synagogues/mosques/etc., with no religious [...]

Lately there have been a few letters to the editor in the Oregonian debating the idea that children need one father and one mother in a household in order to grow up to be decent human beings. I’d have to say I feel lucky that when I was growing up with one mother and [...]

Which Oregon legislators in the 2005 session supported equality and liberty for Oregonians? Which ones opposed or even promoted limiting civil liberties for the people of this state? The ACLU of Oregon has published its legislative scorecard for the 2005 session and there aren’t too many surprises: House Speaker Karen Minnis and [...]

The court ruling out of Marion County last Friday upholding the voter approved constitutional ban on gay marriage in Oregon was a setback, but only in the short term. In the long term, gays in Oregon, and hopefully nationally, will win the same legal rights and protections that heteros have in their contracts of [...]