Innovative program helps return endangered butterfly to the wild in Oregon For nearly 750 endangered butterflies raised at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, it’s time to head home. For much of the past year, inmates at Coffee Creek have raised and cared for Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly larvae as part of a collaboration with the Oregon […]
If Oregon charter school students can stay at home and stay in school at the same time, shouldn’t they be able to? Governor Kate Brown’s Executive Order 20-08, which closed all Oregon public schools due to COVID-19, has been interpreted to also close Oregon’s online charter schools. This means students who were enrolled as online […]
With coronavirus shutting government schools, millions of parents have a historic opportunity to try homeschooling and non-government alternatives, declared leaders with the new movement “Public School Exit.” According to the non-profit, founded in 2019 by Christian leaders passionate about K-12 education, government schools are seriously harming children through sexualization, indoctrination, and dumbing down. But with […]
My brother who lives in Baltimore is a fellow black Christian conservative Republican. He phoned to warn me not to mention Trump to a senior relative. Fake news media’s corona-madness has driven her hatred to the extreme. Now, she wants him dead! Our relative’s irrational hatred for Trump is exactly what Democrats/fake news media still […]
As part of National Social Work Month in March, the Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Welfare Program named Dave Owens of Eugene, the 2019 Tom Moan Memorial Award. The annual award recognizes and promotes leadership and outstanding achievement by caseworkers in the field of child welfare. “National Social Work month is a time to […]
Oregon, it’s about time we talk about nuclear power. No, I don’t mean major reactors like PGE’s decommissioned Trojan Nuclear Plant which shuttered in 1992. Rather, I’m talking about small modular reactors (SMRs) which are experiencing rapid development and receiving great international interest. Countries around the world, such as Russia and Canada, are currently exploring […]
Inspiration comes from a variety of sources but the ones we remember the most are family members who endured hardship and came out stronger. My inspiration comes from my grandfather, George Reginald Nelson, who, at the retirement age of 55, left the Johnson Lumber Mill in Toledo, Oregon and built a home, two full sized […]
This is the first in a series tracing the word “faith” in the book of Romans. (Faith is translated from the Greek word pistis, [G4002], which usually, but not always, is translated “faith” in the New Testament [NT].) Pistis occurs 40 times in the epistle to Romans, the most frequent in any NT book. Today, […]
As an introvert and homeschooling mom, I have an extraordinarily high threshold for isolation. I’ve been known to say my dream vacation is actually staying home for a week while my husband and children escape to some exotic locale, though if I’m completely honest I could probably go longer than seven days without them. Or […]
Have you ever been upset with yourself for giving into temptation … again? Have you ever assumed that if you were just more disciplined, you could be victorious? Feel you need to try harder or be more regimented to keep your routines? How many times have you heard it said that if you want […]