Between the Lines: Changes

Regular readers of the Valley Advocate may have noticed some changes in the paper in recent years. Over the last several months, we’ve published many letters from readers who vehemently object to at least one of those changes: our decision to stop running This...
Voters, Fasten Your Seatbelts

Voters, Fasten Your Seatbelts

Jill Stein was running more than an hour late for a recent campaign event in Florence. But that did little to dampen the spirits of the 50 or so Green-Rainbow Party supporters who chatted over glasses of lemonade as they waited patiently for their gubernatorial...

Imperium Watch: Let's Get Back to Making Things

Most of what Americans owned used to be made here. From shoes and clothes to cars and washing machines, what we used daily was American-made, and the new hair dryers, bicycles, bedroom sets, televisions or air conditioners families bought not only brought them...
American Catechism

American Catechism

Andrew Bacevich, now a professor at Boston University, was a middle-aged Army officer serving in Germany in 1990 when he had an epiphany. The Berlin Wall had just been torn down, and Bacevich was trolling around what had been the communist East, absorbing his first...

Letters: What Do You Think?

D.A.’s Race: No Contest In your August 26 cover story, you report on “the first contested Northwest D.A.’s race in decades.” The contest, you explain, is between a candidate, Michael Cahillane, who believes it’s okay to put to a popular...