Crunching those FBI crime numbers
FBI statistics offer a city-by-city look at crime rates
Wanted: Questions for candidates
Got a question for congressional candidates? Let us know, and we might ask your question at Monday's campaign forum.
As the fair opens, an invitation to slow down
If you're visiting the Benton County Fair this year, take the time to come visit the G-T's booth.
Westlund's 2003 speech still stuns
While I was doing some research into the life of Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund, who died Sunday of lung cancer at age 60, I came across a video of a speech he delivered on the floor of the Oregon Legislature in June 2003. It’s a speech he gave as he returned to the floor...
Quakes, booze, landlords: Fresh ideas for editorials
Here are some of the ideas we’re kicking around this week for possible G-T editorials. As always, feel free to suggest your take on these topics — or offer up some other topics of your own. – For Tuesday: In the wake of the massive earthquake that devastated Chile over the weekend, oceanographers issued warnings...
Editorial preview: Politics, pigs, etc.
Here are some of the ideas your Gazette-Times editorial board is kicking around for possible editorials in the next week or so: – Wednesday’s editorial keys off a comment Oregon Speaker of the House Dave Hunt made last week to The Oregonian newspaper. Hunt told the paper that he had requested job-creation ideas from business...
Sneak peek at G-T editorial topics
Here are some quick notes about editorial ideas that we’re kicking around for next week at the Gazette-Times: For Monday, we’ll revisit the issue that was delayed in December by the Corvallis School Board: Whether to pull the plug on all-day kindergarten. The board is scheduled to take up the topic again at its meeting...
Terrific turnout for G-T forum
We were delighted with the turnout Tuesday night for the Gazette-Times’ forum on Measures 66 and 67: More than 150 people turned out, forcing me to return time and again to that side room where the library stores its extra chairs. That’s a good problem to have. My thanks go out to Sen. Frank Morse...
Forum on tax measures set for Jan. 5
The Gazette-Times’ editorial board is sponsoring a forum on Measures 66 and 67, the two tax issues on the January ballot. The forum — really, it will be a public meeting of the G-T’s editorial board — is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 5, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W....
On the opinion page, the mistakes are all ours
I took a call today from a reader who didn’t leave her name. She was upset that Tuesday’s editorial page published a column from Mikhail Gorbachev. (She was mostly ticked off about Gorby’s bashing of capitalism, but the idea of the page is to offer opinions that will tick off some people, right? Over the...
Meeting set to ponder Corvallis culture
Here’s an early draft of Monday’s editorial; because the editorial talks about a meeting that’s taking place Monday night, I thought you might want to get an early peek at it. —- The recent news about budget woes at the Majestic Theatre has triggered a little bout of unseemly schadenfreude, but it also helps to...
