LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Sad to lose KOPT local programs I was saddened to hear of the end of the local portion of KOPT-AM's broadcasting. From its inception just after the 2004 election, having a local presence on the air was a special pleasure....

Kudzu artist Marlette dies in car crash.
Doug Marlette, whose editorial cartoons often lampooned fundamentalist religion but whose folksy comic strip Kudzu celebrated a rural Southern Baptist pastor, was killed in an automobile accident July 10. He was 57. The Pulitzer Prize winner, who recently joined the staff of the Tulsa World, died near...

Wikipedia revisited.
THE JULY 2005 issue of ETC included an article titled "Wikipedia and the Disappearing Author" in which I discussed the free, open-content, reader-edited Internet encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.org. The site runs on the technology known as "wiki," which enables any visitor to a wiki site to edit, add to,...

Escaping the trap: "... U.S. policymakers need to absorb the larger lesson of the Iraqi debacle. Launching an elective war in pursuit of a nation-building chimera was an act of folly. It is a folly they should vow never to repeat in any other country.".
IT IS CLEAR in retrospect that the Administration and its supporters miscalculated badly about the Iraqi intervention. Pres. Bush's May 1, 2003, speech aboard the aircraft cartier USS Abraham Lincoln beneath a large "Mission Accomplished" banner was the perfect symbol for the misplaced optimism about Iraq that pervaded the...

Liberal station KOPT scraps local content.
Byline: Ilene Aleshire The Register-Guard Liberal-leaning KOPT radio station has pulled the plug on local programming, switching to a nationally syndicated format as of today. "Despite gaining a loyal listenership, the station, which debuted in November 2004, has been a challenging business venture for Churchill...

Drawing on experiences.
Byline: The Register-Guard Cartooning has always been a passion for cartoonist Jan Eliot, even though the path to producing her own syndicated comic strip, "Stone Soup," has been full of twists and turns. But nearly every twist and turn has provided a storyline for the popular strip...

From Hawaii, a bit of New Hope.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard When Wayne Cordeiro left to start a new church in Hawaii 23 years ago, he took a little bit of Eugene with him. Now, the hugely successful pastor is back in town visiting friends and family, and he has brought...

Ingraham says jokes about Clinton are so easy.
Byline: Mark Melady WORCESTER - Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham said last night the U.S. led effort to secure Baghdad is failing, the compromise immigration bill will create 12 million new Democratic voters and that President Bush is an insane mountain biker. "We're...

Are rallies needed?
Byline: ROMEO V. PEFIANCO HERE's one official line from the immigration agency: "Foreigners shall be deported if they join political rallies here as it is tantamount to interfering in our country's domestic political affairs." (Editor's note: Let's not order foreigners not to join rallies and...

FLAVORING THE 'SOUP'.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard Some kids baby-sit to earn a little extra spending money. Some mow lawns. Olivia Clingman-White colors a nationally syndicated comic strip. It's pretty much a dream gig, the 15-year-old South Eugene High School sophomore said. "I had always...