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Posted on Dec 23, 2021October 6, 2022

A dangerous gift

Is this what we want? Have we rejected our pluralistic roots? Do we now favor a narrowed ideology, requiring everyone around us to fit into…

by: Matthew Meador
7 min to read
  • Culture
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Posted on Oct 3, 2021October 7, 2022

A bitter pill

I yelled at the people who run my pharmacy this week. Well, it wasn’t exactly yelling but it was definitely an angry tirade. Staffing shortages…

by: Matthew Meador
6 min to read
  • Culture
  • History
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  • Race in America
Posted on Jul 25, 2022July 25, 2022

Sullenberger wasn’t the first

Two other pilots beat him to it Occasionally, circumstances conspire to rob me of my writing time. This is a circumspect way to say I…

by: Matthew Meador
11 min to read
  • Culture
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  • Portland
  • Second Amendment
  • Yamhill County
Posted on Jun 26, 2022July 2, 2022

Let me explain why I’m worried

It’s not the ones who take firearms seriously, it’s the others Just so we’re clear, I do not have a problem with responsible, legal gun…

by: Matthew Meador
7 min to read
  • Culture
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Posted on Jun 20, 2022June 27, 2022

Disasters, death, curmudgeons and a little ghoul

An air crash, a nightclub fire, Mike Royko and me “Mom, what’s a curmudgeon?” asked 11-year-old me. I’m pretty sure I pronounced it “CARmudgeon” and…

by: Matthew Meador
7 min to read
  • Culture
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  • Oregon Politics
  • Politics
  • Second Amendment
Posted on Jun 18, 2022June 18, 2022

They’re right — it’s a moral issue

Conservatives say mass shootings are a moral issue and they’re correct In a darkly perverse way, it’s appropriate this one happened at a church. No,…

by: Matthew Meador
9 min to read
  • Culture
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Posted on Jun 5, 2022June 6, 2022

The lie of the good-guy-with-a-gun

I got mugged one night. It was nearing 3 a.m. and I was walking from my office to my apartment, a distance of probably 15…

by: Matthew Meador
11 min to read
  • Culture
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  • Oregon Politics
  • Politics
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Posted on Jun 2, 2022June 5, 2022

A picture worth a thousand rounds

Sometimes, the story lies in what the photograph doesn’t show This innocuous photograph could tell any of a thousand stories. A young woman seems to…

by: Matthew Meador
10 min to read
  • Culture
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Posted on May 15, 2022May 15, 2022

Five daily disses that demonstrate white privilege

AKA, “Did you see that?” EDITORIAL NOTE: I am pleased and proud to introduce my first guest editorialist. Using the nom de plume Super Mrs.…

by: Super Mrs. C.
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Posted on May 9, 2022May 11, 2022

Questioning Roe

No answer to satisfy the masses I have been dreading writing this column, although I’ve known I had to write it eventually. My reticence stems…

by: Matthew Meador
3 min to read
  • Culture
  • History
  • Unity
Posted on May 8, 2022May 10, 2022

An exclusive club

Reflections on the blessings of Mothers’ Day A little over 21 years ago, my soon-to-be brother-in-law told me I was about to become a member…

by: Matthew Meador
2 min to read
  • Culture
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Posted on Apr 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The upper hand

A transit driver proves who’s boss Three obnoxious teenage males were standing at the back of a nearly-empty bus one evening in a major U.S.…

by: Matthew Meador

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“I’ve become everything I ever mocked as penance for the hedonism of my youth.”
— Matthew Meador

Matt Meador is a retired food and beverage writer and editor. Since age and circumstance conspired to deprive him of his customary food and drink, he has shifted his attentions to political commentary because this switch allows him to be a little grouchy.

Prior to his work celebrating food and spirits, Matt was an award-winning graphic artist.

Rumor has it Matt hung around the capitol where he learned a simple plate of cookies delivered to Legislative Counsel could get his bills moved to the top of the pile. Who says there’s no corruption in state politics?

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