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WASHINGTON – He was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century – a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley. But this would be hard to...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If you’ve ever gone to the opening day of your local farmers market only to find some of your favorite farmers aren’t in business anymore, you’re not alone. As a farmer myself, I’ve seen high...
DATE: Feb. 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In 2012 Cortez was the recipient of a Heart & Soul grant awarded by the Orton Family Foundation (think Vermont Country Store). The focus was to develop a strategy for engaging all citizens,...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Recently, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address that won the approval of 75 percent of viewers, including 43 percent of Democrats. Normally, presidents try to ride...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Washington is debating the significance of the memo released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, but this much should not be debatable: The effort by the FBI to...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – We are a nation of immigrants who are uneasy about immigration. There is a long history of resentment against immigrants, dating to the Irish in the 1840s and the Chinese a few decades...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Just as Bill Clinton’s 1998 State of the Union address is known as the speech after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address is likely to be...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The stock market is going gangbusters, but whether this reflects the economy’s underlying strength or runaway speculation stumps many experts. Hence, the need for this column: a...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial “Science & Engineering Indicators,” a voluminous document describing the state of...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly said: “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in L.A.” Today, however, Oregon is the state with the strangest state of mind,...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
“It’s just common sense.” How many times have you heard this phrase and thought “If only more people would just use common sense?” I was thinking that during a conversation with Dan Snowberger,...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In his first year in office, President Donald Trump has done many positive things, but his record of conservative achievement has been overshadowed by a whole series of self-inflicted wounds. On...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
