Amici Representatives of 2,249 Women Injured By Abortion; and Melinda Thybault, Founder of The Moral Outcry Petition who filed a brief with 539,108 signatures in the Dobbs case have been recorded in this thirty-minute Zoom press event which took place on June 20, 2023 at 3:00pm Eastern. REASONS FOR CELEBRATING DOBBS – WHY AMERICA IS […]
Summer solstice is that time of year when our sun is “closest to directly overhead”; the next day it begins its gradual march toward winter solstice, when the angle of the sun is most oblique (for us in the Northern Hemisphere). Between June 14 and 28, Portland sees 17 hours from sunrise to sunset, give […]
“3000 SE Powell Boulevard” is the name of Home Forward’s 6-year-old low-income housing development with a massive expenditure: $87 million, $75 million of which came from government tax credits and bond monies. Burdened by building height and design constraints, soil contamination worries, and delayed materials delivery, the expected opening date has been pushed back to […]
A new study reveals there have been around 24,000 fewer abortions since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last year. FiveThirtyEight obtained the study from #WeCount, a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research about abortion and contraception. The study discovered that there were around 93,575 fewer abortions in states […]
The word “faith” occurs 7 times in the first epistle to Corinthians and 7 in the second. Seven in Scripture is the number for Spiritual perfection and the believers in Corinth were spiritually perfect. Paul addressed them: “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to […]
After the exodus from Egypt, when Israel was to enter the land which God had promised to Abraham and his offspring, the people refused. As a result, God made them wander in the desert for forty years. At the end of that time, the Israelites had another opportunity to cross into Canaan, this time near […]
If you want to go fishing this weekend, you’ve got choices! Spearfishing for smallmouth on the Coquille. Learn more about this unique opportunity. Halibut fishing in the Central Coast and Southern Oregon subareas, where the bag limit has been increased to 2. Shad fishing in the Willamette. The Oregon City/Gladstone area has been hot. Summer […]
The Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicles Division of ODOT confirmed that an estimated 3.5 million driver’s license and identification card files were compromised when the agency was hacked two weeks ago. That’s bad news because your driver’s license contains plenty of information about you, including your birthdate, home address and even your height, weight, and […]
It wasn’t the Psalmist of Israel who was honorable, but one of his soldiers who exemplified honor. When it was the usual time to go to battle, David sent his soldiers but, for whatever reason, he stayed back at the palace. “In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent […]
Western Culture has a long history of a genuine appreciation for the value of open, rational discourse. True leaders value dissent among their ranks as a source of invaluable insight of many flavors. “There are times in the experience of almost every community, when even the humblest member thereof may properly presume to teach — […]
