Letters to the Editor

Editor’s note: Anything big going on this week? I kid. As I write this, it’s Tuesday afternoon and myself and the rest of America are looking to Wednesday, when a new president will be inaugurated and another one will fly away without attending the festivities. In Salem, members of the National Guard are on hand […]

As journalists, we are advised to keep ourselves out of the story and to focus instead on the people affected by any given issue. This week, in our nation’s Capitol, the focus of the ire (and outright insurrection) was lawmakers—but also affected by the fear and chaos were the many journalists covering the certification of […]

Editor’s note: For the first issue of a new year, it’s easy to slip into the familiar track, covering things such as “how to stick to your resolutions” and “cleansing after all that excess.” While you’ll find a slight blush of that type of content in this week’s Chow story covering intermittent fasting, for the […]

Editor’s note: Perhaps I’d fallen prey to the adage, “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Or perhaps another saying, “drinking from a firehose,” was more accurate. Whatever analogy one might choose to apply to this past year, it’s been a doozy—and when I set out to compile our Top 10 news stories of the […]

Editor’s note: Without the usual familial requirement to spend all waking hours of Christmas with a gaggle of over-sugared family members, my nuclear unit, aka my safe COVID pod, (consisting of two family members) has decided to go skiing. Do the fellow snow riders reading this feel like they’ve scored the jackpot when they manage […]

Editor’s note: Plenty of wiser minds have weighed in this week about how it feels, at this present moment, to see a COVID-19 vaccine roll out amid a global pandemic and an ongoing economic crisis—with the pressure and expectations of the holiday season thrown in. If I had to characterize all of this in culinary […]

Editor’s note: In a year that’s been filled with ups and downs and everything seeming topsy turvy, we elected to focus our two-part Gift Guide on two things that most people could use a good dose of this year: First, Comfort. Second, Joy. The “Joy” portion comes in this week’s edition, where we’ve rounded up […]

Editor’s note: This past week, as my family and I sat down for our Thanksgiving dinner, the biggest topic of conversation, no matter what side of the political aisle people stood on, was whether people in the state would elect to call the cops on neighbors who appeared to be violating the edict to keep […]

Editor’s note: A fellow Oregon journalist recently created a hilarious “Bingo” game filled with all the common phrases heard at any one of the many coronavirus briefings hosted by the governor and state health officials. One of the phrases heard, in different iterations at recent press conferences, involves officials telling the public what they’re doing […]