Crunching those FBI crime numbers
FBI statistics offer a city-by-city look at crime rates
Open-government meetings to begin
The Gazette-Times has editorialized before in support of Attorney General John Kroger’s effort to improve government transparency in Oregon. Now, Kroger has scheduled the first public meeting in a series of statewide sessions to gather comment on his effort, which aims to identify weak spots in Oregon’s public records and open meeting laws — and...
First notes from Willamette Innovators Night
It’s late Thursday night, and I’m just back from the Ignite Corvallis portion of Willamette Innovators Night, the updated and reworked version of what used to be called High Tech After Hours. I missed much of last year’s event, but participants told me that the crowds seemed larger this year, both in the exhibitors’ area...
And now, a little good news
I hope you noticed Raju Woodward’s heart-warming story in Tuesday’s paper (along with Scobel Wiggins’ wonderful photo) about Ramon Nordyke. Nordyke’s a longtime Beaver football fan, but he’s in hospice care now and hasn’t been able to get to any of the games since the 2008 season opener. On Monday, thanks to the work of...
Raju moves from sports to news
Raju Woodward will move from sports to covering K-12 education for the Gazette-Times.
Farewell, Alex
Alex Paul, the G-T's education reporter, is leaving the paper to return to the Democrat-Herald in Albany.
Governor signs bills shaped by G-T
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Thursday signed into law two bills that were at least partially influenced by reporting by the Gazette-Times' Bennett Hall.
About those page-one decisions
You may have noticed the letter in Wednesday’s paper taking the G-T to task for not playing the story about the plane crash into the Hudson on the front page. In retrospect, I think the reader has a point — we probably should have played the story that first day on the front page. In...
Readers weigh in on homeless story
Tom Henderson’s story on the effort this week to roust the homeless from a camp area they were using near to Highway 99 West drew an unusually rich string of comments from readers on our Web site. Click here to check out the story and the comments. The homelessness issue in Corvallis has a number...
Identifying juvenile suspects
One of the issues that routinely gives us heartburn at the G-T (and did as well at the Missoulian, my former paper) is whether to identify juvenile suspects accused of crimes. Last week, we faced another instance of this: Corvallis police arrested two suspects in a wave of vandalism against cars along Philomath Boulevard. One of...
