Letters to the Editor July 5th, 2011

WHAT IT IS ABOUT CORVALLIS I've lived here for a year now and think I have finally figured out what it is about Corvallis. You can walk around with your heart chakra open and not get slammed. And you pass people on the sidewalk doing the same thing. I've lived in many places in this world and this is the only place I've seen where you can do it. I love this town. I don't own a car and it's also very bike and pedestrian friendly. -Cynthia SOUPLESSONS SoupCycle is a Portland/Corvallis small business that delivers homemade soup, salads, and bread to subscribers (we call them SoupScribers) at your homes or offices. Jed Lazar, SoupCycle owner and one of the 5 Portland delivery people, shares some observations about life on the road as a SoupCyclist. SoupCycle has made 35,526 bicycle soup deliveries to 546 Souptarians in Portland and Corvallis. Here are ›

Letters to the Editor June 21st, 2011

TV BLUES I have noticed while visiting the newly transformed business center of 9th and Circle, that one business in particular chose to transform their insides too by adding a huge flat screen T.V. This to me is an embarrassment. People go out to experience different atmospheres; To get away from their home for a little while; To people watch; Enjoy culture. Besides bar ›

Letters to the Editor June 14th, 2011

HUNTING VOTERS Once an American citizen reaches the ripe old age of 18, he or she need only give the Fed a few bits of personal information in order to legally exercise his or her power to vote. No test of intelligence or education is required; no test of basic political or historical knowledge is administered. There are no requirements to fulfill; all you have to be abl ›

Letters from Readers June 7, 2011

THE CURSE OF THE CARTOONIST Just read in your online edition that TAWeekly is ceasing publication. This gives me a grievous pain, not only for my loss of a wonderful outlet for my scribblings, but for Corvallis generally, which sometimes struggles with its, ah, inoffensiveness, let’s say. Here’s a story: In the 1970s I submitted a passel of ‘toons to WET, a very al ›

Letters May 24th, 2011

TAW received this letter at 2 am Friday, May 20. We thought it was a joke, but it has to be true. Post-Rapture Letter to The World Oooh yeah, “Macho Man” Randy Savage here to tell the world TODAY that the reason you’re still around, the ONLY reason you’re still around is because of one man, Randy Savage.History beckons the “Macho Man!”And just as I stood in f ›

Letters from May 10th, 2011

TELL AYLA ROGERS I WILL VALIDATE HER PARKING I really liked Ayla Rogers’s article “The Enforcer” about officer Begin-Wasco. I had a parking disagreement with her a week before that came out, and she was so nice that it caught me off guard. She calmly told me how to contest my violation and said it would most likely be appealed. The interview was unusual and intere ›