Opinion

(Editor's Note: Jerry Robinson was scanning the trees and the water last week for an usual sights.)

"Many times I've heard this comment, 'It's starting to look less like a war zone and more like a marina again' or something similar, from people walking by or through the Des Moines Marina this past month, " observed Doreen Torseth, contract…MORE

At 25 Morey Skaret had already "rode the rods" to Wyoming and back. It was depression-era travel at its cheapest.

Riding under the boxcar on two-inch thick rods was considered the most dangerous aspect of hobo life but this young man from…MORE

Frank Chopp, Speaker of the Washington House, recently suggested that the continued financial “crisis” that we are facing will require the State to re-examine what the State can, and cannot, do for the citizens and called this a “Reset.” The “…MORE

Alas, the fun is over How can I go on with life I feel as bad as if someone Had stabbed me with a knife

No more enlightening TV ads Where candidates explain Their points of view instead About opponents just complain

I’ll miss those…MORE

I don't know if there is a way to go back to the simpler life; a time removed from anger and strife of today's world, a day of just being thankful to be together with caring folks, family and friends.

If there is a way to start - it's…MORE

The following list of recommendations represents our choices for candidates and various ballot measures in the Nov. 2 general election. Remember to please vote in this all-mail election.

36th Legislative District

Jeanne Kohl-Welles…MORE

The following list of recommendations represents our choices for candidates public office and various ballot measures in the Nov. 2, 2010 general election. Please vote.

Initiative 1053----Yes

Requires a 2/3 vote to raise taxes…MORE

As a teen-age box boy at Meier and Frank's department store in Portland, my daily duty was to waggle a wheeled cart through the first floor, artfully dodging shoppers while I gathered mail order packages from various stations, then hustled them…MORE

By Peter House, 36th District Democrats

This year’s election is again “one of the most important in recent memory.”

On the national level, this will be the first referendum on President Obama, his record and his proposals. At the…MORE