Randy Stapilus

Carlton

Editor and Publisher at Times-News (Idaho)

Writing and publishing in the Northwest

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Articles

Oregon hatred and beyond

1 week ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway

The 2000 report on hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center showed five hate groups active in Oregon. Its 2024 counterpart report just released this month found 24. The difference is a matter of apples and oranges between these reports, which reflects a changing landscape in the area of extremism and hate groups.
Commentary: Sourcing the news: Oregon bill opens discussion about paying for journalism

1 week ago | cgsentinel.com | Randy Stapilus

No easy or obvious solution will resolve one of the top and less-acknowledged crises in America, the collapse of local and regional news reporting. Whether Oregon Senate Bill 686 passes or fails, it should at least open a discussion about improving the ability of Oregonians to get the information they need to govern themselves.
Stapilus: Expansion and resistance

2 weeks ago | idahopress.com | Randy Stapilus

In the northern Idaho university city of Moscow, Christ Church, a Christian nationalist center of national note, is an ongoing controversy. A few miles away at the town of Troy, it has become a federal case. Like many communities anchored by higher education, Moscow long has leaned blue (usually voting Democratic for major offices), and the growing Christ Church community and its leader Doug Wilson have been a counterweight to that. More than that, really.
Commentary: Sourcing the news: Oregon bill opens discussion about paying for journalism

2 weeks ago | heraldandnews.com | Randy Stapilus

No easy or obvious solution will resolve one of the top and less-acknowledged crises in America, the collapse of local and regional news reporting. Whether Oregon Senate Bill 686 passes or fails, it should at least open a discussion about improving the ability of Oregonians to get the information they need to govern themselves.
Opinion: Civics education needs improvement

2 weeks ago | idahostatejournal.com | Randy Stapilus

A public better educated on civics ought to be one of our top priorities, and the arrival of a bill this last session - which since has been signed into law - to revise Idaho state law on the subject was cause for immediate interest. Interest, yes, but also concern. The opportunities for mischief here are almost limitless, and Idaho’s isn’t a legislature usually known in recent years for cautious self-restraint.
Budgeting into the unknown

2 weeks ago | oregoncapitalchronicle.com | Randy Stapilus |Julia Shumway

The switch has flipped on the last stretch of this year’s Oregon legislative session and the central dynamic for the last and busiest phase ahead has been set. So, possibly, has the campaign dynamic for next year’s legislative elections. Part of it involves a raucous economic debate over the administration of Donald Trump. Most of the rest concerns how little predictability exists for conditions going forward.
Budgeting into the unknown

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Randy Stapilus

Oregon's economic forecast could set the tone not just for the remainder of the legislative session but for the campaign season to come, commentator Randy Stapilus writes. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)The switch has flipped on the last stretch of this year’s Oregon legislative session and the central dynamic for the last and busiest phase ahead has been set. So, possibly, has the campaign dynamic for next year’s legislative elections.
Sourcing the news: Oregon bill opens discussion about paying for journalism

2 weeks ago | mckenzieriverreflectionsnewspaper.com | Randy Stapilus

No easy or obvious solution will resolve one of the top and less-acknowledged crises in America, the collapse of local and regional news reporting. Whether Oregon Senate Bill 686 passes or fails, it should at least open a discussion about improving the ability of Oregonians to get the information they need to govern themselves.
This is what is meant by a slippery slope | STAPILUS

2 weeks ago | magicvalley.com | Randy Stapilus

Idaho House Bill 415 fits so neatly into a central piece of political rhetoric that the surprise is that its progress at the legislature has been slowed as much as it has; which is to say, not much. The bill provides that any public school employee—who obtains an enhanced concealed weapons permit, not terribly hard to get—who wants to carry a firearm or other “deadly weapon” to school can do it, whether local administrators and school boards like it or not.
GUEST COLUMN: Oregon bill opens discussion about paying for journalism

2 weeks ago | rv-times.com | Randy Stapilus

Published 6:00 am Sunday, May 18, 2025 No easy or obvious solution will resolve one of the top and less-acknowledged crises in America, the collapse of local and regional news reporting. Whether Oregon Senate Bill 686 passes or fails, it should at least open a discussion about improving the ability of Oregonians to get the information they need to govern themselves.