Sunday’s Oregonian had a front page interview with former Governor John Kitzhaber (audio included in link) regarding his vision for a new approach to health care in the state of Oregon and the nation. As a member of the small business community in Oregon, I was intrigued by what I read because Kitzhaber is proposing [...]

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 O will [...]

Sometimes the Oregonian editorial board writes something in an editorial that makes me choke on my muesli in the morning, and this a.m. just happened to be one of those mornings. The editorial focused on two Washington state initiatives on next week’s ballot that deal with medical malpractice. To be fair, they did get one [...]