Faulty comparison | Sign on ineptitude | Attacking humanity. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Feb. 23, 2025.

For years Portland Police Bureau has cooperated with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), but with a new federal administration intent on broadening the JTTF’s scope and power, city leaders ...

Right now, we shouldn’t be asking whether any of the bodies in trees (DOGE cuts) are really horse thieves (wasteful spending), we should be asking how the outlaws got into the sheriff’s office and how ...

The Supreme Court considered whether relatives of Holocaust victims could take a sovereign nation to a U.S. court to atone ...

I did something I thought I would never in my lifetime have to do. I traveled to my former workplace, Rocky Mountain National ...

The Day of Remembrance teach-in took place in Hallock Auditorium this past Thursday, covering the history of Japanese internment camps in World War II and revealing Oberlin’s role in welcoming ...

Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our ...

Next to be welcomed to the Finney Chapel stage by the Artist Recital Series is world-renowned violinist Midori, whose prodigious career has broken many records. “Midori is literally a superstar in our ...

Council passes anti-Japanese resolution.” That was a headline in this newspaper back on June 18, 1943, at the height of World ...