City beautification starts at home with a clean curbside. That’s the message the Mayor’s Office is preaching to residents. The Director of Constituent Services, Corey Driscoll, said the city is asking residents to follow the Guide to Key City Services: Only place […]
Paul Fitzgerald and Don Seigel are on oppositie sides of the proverbial dike. The disagreement surrounds Hydrofracking. Hydraulic Fracturing, or Hydrofracking, is the collection of natural gas from sequestered rocks in the Marcellus Shale deep underground. Companies drill – usually past 5,000ft […]
It’s amazing what a month-long break from writing can do to a person. I find myself re-reading class assignments in disgust, scratching my head at AP Style and neglecting the Oxford comma. It’s a lot like running. Once you stop. […]
I have to say goodbye to a friend today. I’ll miss him. Saying goodbye is tough. No one does it correctly. There are often awkward pauses. Fidgeting. People resort to swapping old stories. Living in the moment is too uncomfortable; […]
Usually I don’t get my vacation from writing until late July and early August. It was a special treat this year when Zack, my editor at The Forest Grove News-Times was nice enough to grant me some “vacation” in mid-May. […]
Let it be known, Pacific University junior golfer Max Bonk is a scientist, not a farmer. He grew up in Hawaii. He doesn’t own a tractor. He calculates, analyzes and experiments. He does not enjoy wading through knee-deep grass in […]
A few months ago I posted, in a quick blurb along with a video, that Chad Ochocinco amazes me. He is a skilled wide receiver on the field and gifted in the art of entertaining outside the lines – as […]
(Note: The material in this post came in part from a staff editorial I wrote for the Barometer in November 2009) As managing editor of the Barometer, one of my responsibilities was to moderate comments on our website. Through College […]
Over the past decade, athletically speaking, Oregon State has held Notre Dame in a headlock. Or a full-nelson. It’s not that the Beaver are always better, they are just better at the right moments. Maybe it’s even luck. The Beavers […]
Here are a couple of Oregon State Football Promos from KBVR put together by former studio production manager Tom Boykin. You are about to experience an Ace Ventura moment…