Where’s the money?Seriously? The Oregon Senate wants to mandate all-day kindergarten, while money-strapped school districts are frantically slashing their present programs? It may be a good idea, but the timing is terrible. Jeers for unfunded mandates.
A literary floodThe library calls it Title Wave — bookworms around the Bay Area reading “The Highest Tide” and attending programs about marine biology that the novel explores. Cheers for this free program that fosters learning between book covers and beyond.
Ahoy, and welcomeSpeaking of salt water, the tall ships have returned to Coos Bay. Their elegance excites the eye, and their petite dimensions boost appreciation of the 18th-century voyagers who explored Oregon’s coast. Cheers.
In-state tuition? NoFirst driver’s licenses, now in-state tuition at Oregon universities. Maybe children brought to the U.S. by their illegal immigrant parents deserve compassion. But this is no way to fix a faulty immigration policy. Jeers.
Safety isn’t freeOregon voters are traditionally skeptical about highway funds to pay for state police. But modern equipment such as in-cruiser computers help keep troopers and citizens safe. Jeers to a tax system that doesn’t properly support Oregon’s finest.
Celebrate!Come Monday, the Celebration Center will dedicate an addition to replace the gym building that burned last July, eventually producing a landslide across U.S. Highway 101. Cheers for the church’s determination to rise from its (literal) ashes.
Unwanted attention?From the March 23 police log: A Coos Bay man called the dispatch center to complain about a patrol car parked near his house. Jeers to him. We all should be so lucky.