During the past few weeks, Capital Press reporter Sierra Dawn McClain took a close look at how food gets from the farm to the grocery store.
The food system she...
You could almost say homelessness is like the weather: Everybody talks about it but no one ever does anything.
Almost — because there are dedicated, determined ...
We managed to get through the Fourth of July without setting the valley on fire, which is something to celebrate. But fires are burning anyway, close enough to ...
There is little doubt sitting on a local elected board can be a hard job. Hometown politicians do not get paid much, and they receive, at times, plenty of criti...
The Oregon Legislature missed a chance to give the public better tools to hold the government accountable during disease outbreaks like the coronavirus pandemic...
As you marvel at the triple-digit temperature today, which might just break the all-time record of 115 degrees for Medford, realize that record was set on July ...
The trauma is still fresh from last year’s wildfires that left thousands without homes. While a repeat of the perfect storm of high winds and scorching heat is ...
As the Oregon Legislature nears the end of the 2021 session, a proposal has surfaced to give state stimulus checks to essential workers who stayed on the job du...
Jackson County moving into the moderate risk category is welcome news. What’s frustrating is that we could have already been there for some time if more local r...
While legislators faced a clear-cut case for expelling Rep. Mike Nearman from the Oregon House, the vote they took last Thursday was still a difficult one. The ...
Another season, another tragedy on the beach.
Every year as spring turns to summer, we hope we will get through the busiest visitor season without the loss of a...
For growers of everything from pears to cannabis, the news is grim. Irrigation water may be shut off by Aug. 1, just as crops enter the stage when they need it ...
Even as the pandemic begins to wane, there are still plenty of ways to go wrong. Oregon can’t relent in its push to immunize nor neglect the needs of children n...
A consultant’s report on the official response to the Almeda and South Obenchain fires largely confirmed what everyone who lived through the disasters already k...
Jackson County is emerging from the pandemic on a solid financial footing, thanks to prudent management by the Board of Commissioners and County Administrator D...
Oregon’s vote-by-mail system is a model for the nation that other states should emulate. The system has been tweaked to make it even more convenient for voters ...
Oregon voters should feel pretty good about U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s ideas on forest management, concepts he discussed last week.
Merkley wants to push the Bide...
Water battles in the Klamath Basin are nothing new, but this year’s crisis is the worst ever, and confrontational tactics by some irritated irrigators are not h...
“I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen ...
There are two bills in the Oregon House proposing campaign contribution limits. One, House Bill 3343, proposes clear, modest limits and has the support of good-...
