By Dr. Eric Fruits, Economist Guest submission for Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Two years ago, my wife went on her morning walk past the school across the street, when she saw the school’s custodian—dead on the sidewalk of what we later learned was a heart attack. If she’d been […]

By Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities, A new study from the University of California Merced shows that thinning overcrowded forests and using prescribed fire produces a wide range of benefits that reach far beyond reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Researchers found that these treatments strengthen forest resilience, protect valuable ecosystem services and […]

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon headquartered ministry The human impulse to rush to judgment has always existed, but now it is common to believe whatever we hear and then post outrage using social media. But what if in our use of social media we applied the concepts of […]