Morrison resident and Mexico native Benjamin Ontiveros Amparon, 47, died Jan. 29 at his home. A nurseryman with Odom nursery and a member of the Catholic Church, he was the son of Juan Ontiveros Mendoza and Cruz Amparon Delgado de Ontiveros of San Felipe, Chihuahua; and is also survived by his wife, Stephanie Pinegar Ontiveros;…

McMinnville resident Delana J. Johnson, 30, died Jan. 28 at her home after an extended illness. A waitress and a member of the Pentecostal Church, she was preceded in death by her father, Herman Highlander. She is survived by mother, Shirley A. Johnson; sisters, Kandi L. McAdams of McMinnville, Sheila E. Johnson, Ellen M. Johnson…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ A Democratic Congress is poised to heed President Bush’s call to help save the economy, but may not give him much else after a State of the Union speech that recycled many of the administration’s past initiatives. The president called again for immigration reform, an end to lawmakers’ pet projects, control of…

Editorial Our Viewpoint McMinnville city administrator David Rutherford brings up several interesting arguments in his pitch to have elected officials re-evaluate how the city distributes some of its taxpayer dollars. One of those points ‘ that it’s absurd to do the same thing year after year and expect different results ‘ is completely valid. For…

By DUANE SHERRILL The credit industry has hunted the field empty, giving American consumers enough rope where they have hanged themselves and are threatening to take the economy down with them. The major economic downturn we are about to get hit with in the mouth has been many years in coming and is really the…

By Kathryn Lopez There is nothing like the prospect of losing to focus one’s mind. That might explain the dynamic at work in the East Room of the White House on the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. After President Bush’s brief remarks, the first response I…

BY William Rusher It’s slowly dawning on the liberals that it’s not going to be enough to ignore Ronald Reagan. Like it or not, they’re going to have to take him on, head-first, and try to convince the American people, or at least the historians of his era, he was a fundamentally bad guy. I…

BY SETH WRIGHT

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) ‘ Hog farmers in the Upper Midwest and Canada’s prairie provinces plan to buy a majority interest in a North Dakota slaughter plant, in what one official calls a historic moment for the region’s pork industry. The Cloverdale Growers’ Alliance Cooperative, a group of about 60 hog farmers in North Dakota, Montana…

Nashville ‘ Tennessee’s farmers and landowners can now sign up for the USDA’s Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP). The program is administered through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The WRP is a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. Tennessee landowners have until February 29, 2008…