The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft. If you’re really poetic, it might be on a piece of paper, yellowing in a drawer. Whatever form these ...

This Memorial Day as we honor our brave troops, I wonder how many died because a political leader decided to seek revenge. Had the Allies not sought retribution against Germany for WWI would the ...

Yelena Sannikova has been writing letters to political prisoners since she was a Soviet teenager in the 1970s. Almost half a century later, with the Russian state's long, harsh clampdown on dissent ...

As a regular reader of this paper I find it disheartening to read posts by the same people over and over again about topics of the past especially Measure D. These people are obsessed and I am tired ...

As expected, the U.S. House voted to commit taxpayer dollars and the lives of military volunteers to another endless war in the Middle East. Their votes were way too easy. They had no political or ...

I’ve taken the liberty to apply two small edits to a 1967 song by Bob Dylan; “I pity the poor President, who wishes he would’ve stayed home. Who uses all his power to do evil, but in the end is always ...

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On Nov. 11, House Minority Leader Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River) sent out an announcement that he was stepping down as leader of the House Republican caucus. “This week, as I laid my father to rest, I ...