by Donald Teel | Nov 30, 2021
Beginning with Jamestown (circa 1607), American life has been organized around and dependent upon the notion of rigorous self-reliance. In early America, self-reliance was a given. There wasn’t much choice for the early patriots. After all, staying alive was...
by Donald Teel | Nov 12, 2021
Oregon has been a state walking on the tightrope of sheer anarchy. Like you, I watched the rioting, the looting, the mugging, and the tyranny of the Portland meltdown. Leaders were scarce, decisive leaders were non-existent. Portland became a war zone. The once lovely...
by Donald Teel | Jun 19, 2021
Politicians evolve. We all know we can expect changes from the time a candidate first announces a run for office, and thereafter forevermore. It is typically our collective and disappointing experience to watch politicians devolve, to go backward, regress, even crash...
by Donald Teel | Oct 10, 2019
The aftermath of this week’s resignation by Oregon’s Public Records Advocate, Ginger McCall, in response to political interference by Kate Brown’s top staff, along with her top staffers’ surreptitious efforts to kill the 2019 bipartisan transparency legislation, has...
by Donald Teel | Sep 17, 2019
Deciphering the myriad and complex media messages is both a science and an art. To say the media misleads the public is a misnomer. The media does mislead us, by lying to us constantly. If you’re one who naively accepts copy and image as dispensed by the major...
