| Letter: Horses and decisions |
I feel I should let the citizens of Wallowa County know about an incident that recently happened to my 8-year-old daughter.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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| Letter: Clarifying rail policy |
This letter is in response to a letter written by Peggy Kite-Martin that appeared in the July 8 Chieftain.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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| COMMENTARY: I started a six-mile walk |
A funny thing happened on my way to completing the six-mile Wharf-to-Wharf walk in Santa Cruz, California.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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| EDITORIAL: RIP, cap and trade bill |
A year after the House of Representatives narrowly passed a controversial climate bill, the measure's centerpiece - the cap and trade provision - appears fatally wounded.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
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| Letter: My press agent |
After reading the letter (Chieftain, July 15) by Evelyn Swart concerning Joseph council member Mark Lacey, I was left with two major thoughts.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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| Letter: Overabundance of wolves would devastate the county |
I live in Lower Valley (below Wallowa), on the old Powers Homestead, just a short distance from where I was born 86 years ago.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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| EDITORIAL: The only choice: rebuild the Forest Service building |
The U.S. Forest Service building in Enterprise was a magnificent edifice, considered by many to be the agency's finest district headquarters.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
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| Letter: Threat to seniors |
Letters have gone out to seven senior citizens in Wallowa County notifying them that Oregon state budget cuts are directly hitting them.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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| Letter: A good word for Lacey, but not for state budget cuts |
I am writing to publicly thank Mark Lacey for his four long years of service to the City of Joseph.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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| COMMENTARY: Colbert would put politicians, pundits to work . . . on the farm |
Stephen Colbert has a deal for all of the folks who believe farmers are scamming the system to get cheap labor at the expense of unemployed Americans.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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| EDITORIAL: Sales tax: Closer to reality? |
As different as we are in eastern Oregon from the folks on the other side of the Cascades, there are a few things that seem to unify all Oregonians.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
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| Fast fact |
Wallowa County encompasses 3,153 square miles and has a population of 6,889, averaging 2.18 people per square mile.
Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
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| Letter: About wolf 'pardon' |
Regarding "Groups seek wolf 'pardon'" (Chieftain, June 24): Let's run with that logic. Let's charge that special ed teacher in Alaska with a crime for daring to run on a public road and ending up attracting wolves. How dare she present herself as food.
Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
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| Letter: Astounded and amazed at 'statesman' Stauffer |
I was astounded and amazed at the comments that Marc Stauffer made in his letter (Chieftain, June 17). Those were bold words, accusing other politicians of "corruption" while holding himself above all as a "statesman."
Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
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| Editorial: Harnessing wind power |
Wind. It blows hard up the Columbia River and across the wheat fields of northeast Oregon.
Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
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| Letter: A veteran's care |
My Dad is a veteran, a disabled veteran. He served his country and in doing so, his fellow man.
Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
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| Letter: 'Leeches and parasites' generate controversy on wolf issue |
It is most interesting that the Chieftain gives front page coverage, in color, to preservation groups on the wolf issue.
Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
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| Letter: McCain was right |
John McCain was right when he described the comments of General McChrystal as "inappropriate."
Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
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| Editorial: Independence - it rings true |
For this Fourth of July weekend, we could think of no better expression of Independence Day than the second section of the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Even after 234 years, it rings true:
Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
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| COMMENTARY: What's in a dairy or organic label? Everything |
In the fabled balcony scene, Juliet asks Romeo to reject his name.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
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| EDITORIAL: Turning point at Lake fire district |
After a seeming false start two weeks ago, things now look up in Wallowa Lake Rural Fire Protection District.
For too long a time, the lake community has gone with no firefighters, resulting in an impending hike in fire insurance premiums.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 |
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| Letter: AAUW has a scholarship |
The American Association of University Women is seeking names of women in their junior or senior year of college who are studying in the fields of science, technology engineering or mathematics.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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| Letter: Vegetarian wolves? |
I was not surprised to read in the Chieftain that the government wolf expert thinks that Tom and Lori Schaafsma are the first ranchers in Wallowa to raise vegetarian wolves.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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| Letter: 'Alarming' wolf kills |
The number of wolf kills to date is alarming and my heart goes out to local area ranchers. It does not take rocket science to figure out where our meat comes from.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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| Letter: It's not a dog park |
I'm not sure why Mr. Kemp (Chieftain, June 3) is under the impression that the Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site is a dog park.
Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
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