The last several years, nearly five is more accurate, Fitzpatrick started a protest of civil rights and the frequent deaths of African Americans. To avoid the media reports highlights blacks dying than whites by police. What I am questioning is how athletes taking a knee to protest inequalit…
The last several years, nearly five is more accurate, Fitzpatrick started a protest of civil rights and the frequent deaths of African Americans. To avoid the media reports highlights blacks dying than whites by police. What I am questioning is how athletes taking a knee to protest inequalit…
“Congratulations DOUGLAS COUNTY!” You have done it again.
What is going on with the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Roseburg? They were contacted about the COVID-19 shot for 65+ as was published in The News-Review. The response that was given was that it was for federal employees. Isn't the VAMC for veterans?
Just so we are clear, Joe Biden got 7 million more votes than Donald Trump and won the electoral college by 74 votes. The Trump administration tried mightily for two months to find evidence of election fraud and utterly failed, according to both Republican and Democratic Judges and election …
Concerning the mimics and nitwits who hate Trump so much that they are willing to sacrifice everything they have to destroy him, even after he leaves office, even America as we have known it. The far left Democrats are socialists and communists who take their ques from the communist manifest…
As a proud Roseburg High School graduate, I am in support of retaining the Indian as Roseburg's high school mascot.
It all started as surgery to my lower spine. I was sent home the afternoon of the operation with well wishes and bottle of pain pills. These pills caused me to have hallucinations in which I thought I was able to walk. As a consequence, i took two bad falls. The Roseburg Fire Department was …
I suppose we all owe Senator Dallas Heard and his anti-mask followers a big thank you for helping Douglas County decline to the Extreme COVID level while everywhere else is leveling off or improving.
Today, I have an embarrassing confession to make. I owe all of you an apology. In my youth, I was a thief. It only happened a few times. My crimes were always accompanied by what seemed to me, at the time, to be a rational justification. In reality, my rationalizations were simply, lies, and…
We Americans, as a general rule, are lazy, we want things easy. Politicians and salespeople target and prey on you with shiny baubles. Unfortunately, life is complex. Layers of influences get us to sway this or that way. If we continue to look to the shiny bauble and easiest solution, we sha…
With a return to the EXTREME risk level, Douglas County’s lack of leadership was on clear display during Wednesday’s 16KMTR’s interview with Douglas County Commissioner Chris Boice. It’s only a five-minute interview video and can be watched at nbc16.com.
Boy the commissioners have really out did themselves this time with their stance on the COVID-19 restrictions.
There are so many things to worry about these days. We need a break. Here it is.
The Oregon Department of Education is incredibly racist if the course they are encouraging math educators to take indicates their beliefs.
Business owners are struggling, but white owners have a problem. President Biden's screaming “whites need not apply” favoring COVID-19 loans to Minority-owned businesses. There's ways to help both without his "separate, but equal" 1954 mind set.
Trump appears to be preparing for another run for president in 2024. If he frightens, cajoles and manipulates enough Republicans into supporting him, he might very well be the Republican candidate in this next presidential election year. What is certain is that if he does run, he will begin …
I was overjoyed to read the Letter to the Editor of Feb. 18 in which my name was mentioned four times. Never have I ever been mentioned so often in a 300-word letter. I was equally excited to discover that so many dedicated individuals and organizations have been working so tirelessly over t…
I would like to respectfully suggest that the current promotion of transgender females (males moving to female) competing in women's sports is not as simple as some, including our new president with his executive order, might think.
My affiliation with Roseburg High School and the Roseburg School District is: our three children graduated from Roseburg High; my wife taught at Melrose Elementary for 22 years. I've been an avid Roseburg High sports fan for all my 48 years living in this great community. I especially love w…
So, State Senator Dallas Heard is now Chair of the Republican Party of Oregon.
On the heels of President Biden's promised anti-gun push, Salem Democrats are about to ram through two bills, SB 585 and SB 554, which taken together will effectively do away with the right of self defense. The state pre-emption law protects citizens from random capricious gun restrictions e…
As a 1985 alumni and parent of Roseburg High School students, I have always felt pride in being a Roseburg Indian.
One thing is for sure--if you don’t change the name of the Roseburg Indians, this issue won’t go away. If you do change it everyone will move on, and it will fade into the past. I’m not hearing anyone taking signatures to return Umpqua Community College back to the Timbermen.
The 1939 edition of the Roseburg High School “UMPQUA” featured a handsome image of a Native American on its cover. Everyone was proud of it. I visited the Roseburg headquarters of Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians last Wednesday and was told the Tribe has no objection. The complaints…
Those who want to change the name of the Roseburg Indians should be proud of the heritage of those Native Americans who have proudly and honorably held the name to the highest standards, not only in education, but sports as well. You shouldn't be ashamed that the school carries the name Indi…
How ironic that Dr. Tim Powell's column calling for reducing the restrictions necessary to slow the spread of covid-19 appeared as cases in Douglas County are surging. Nearly 500 more cases have been identified since he wrote his column and 11 more residents of our community have died. Natio…
Roseburg’s School Board will consider whether to cancel their sports teams name “Indians.”
There is no point in having an "eligibility date" for seniors to receive the vaccine since there isn't any vaccine! Clearly, Douglas County isn't getting its allocation and has administered the lowest percentage of vaccines in the State. Meanwhile, in Lane County last week 5,500 people over …
School board director Howard Johnson was recently quoted, “This country was made great through the genocide of Indians and the enslavement of Blacks. We don’t want to go back to that. We want to move forward.”
Everybody wants more transparency…at least from everybody else. Therefore, Kimberli S. Holmquist, I would like to encourage, from your group, “Community Rights Douglas County”, the same type of full-disclosure that you desire from our commissioners.
Except for a small handful of conscientious, constitution-defending senators, with this second impeachment acquittal, the vast majority of the Republican congressmen and women have undeniably affirmed their spineless allegiance to Donald Trump's unhinged, egocentric "leadership." Not a singl…
2020 Election Steal? Was there fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election, or was it a free and fair election? The courts have determined the facts, using verifiable evidence which can be confirmed. In Arizona a Nov. 12 law suit claimed that electronic voting machines were improperly counting b…
