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THURSDAY, MARCH 4
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block of Lockhaven Drive NE.
7:29 p.m. - Arrest for criminal trespassing
in the 5000 block of Nordic Court N.
9:17 p.m. - Arrest for criminal trespassing
in the 5000 block of River Road N.
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800 block of Foothill Court NE.
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6000 block of Keizer Station Blvd.
1:50 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the
6000 block of Ulali Drive.
6:13 p.m. - Failure to perform duties of
driver when property was damaged at
the intersection of Manbrin Drive N and
River Road N.
7:54 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 3000 block
of River Road N.
8:04 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the
2000 block of Jorie Lane NE.
MONDAY, MARCH 1
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section of River Road N and Manbrin
Drive N.
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Keizer Station Blvd.
10:40 a.m. - Burglary in the 3000 block
of Jack Street N.
12 p.m. - Burglary in the 1000 block of
Modoc Drive NE.
2:58 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the
5000 block of Nordic Court N.
5 p.m. - Theft from motor vehicle in the
5000 block of McLeod Lane NE.
8 p.m. - Criminal mischief in the 5000
block of McLeod Lane NE.
10:30 p.m. - Physical harassment in the
4000 block of Tracy Street NE.
TUESDAY, MARCH 2
6 p.m. - Assault in the 1000 block of
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3
That’s something to consider
hurting yet that is a message that
By LYNDON ZAITZ
How wonderful it would be to fades as we get older and revel in
hear someone say, “That’s some- the fact we have the ability to ex-
thing to consider” during discus- press ourselves any time we wish.
Hands and weapons can hurt
sions of today’s divisive topics.
Unfortunately those words are and kill; words harm. Is it possible
for our society to lower the civic
hardly—if ever—heard.
temperature? What will it
Everyone has their
take for disgreements to
opinion whether it is
on
go from fi erce discourse
about face masks, vaccines,
to patience and tolerance?
taxes or school resource
my
Beliefs are part of who
offi cers. Anyone paying
humans are. Who wants
attention to media of any
mind
to be characterized as
kind would be excused for
weak if they should pause
thinking that no topic goes
undebated. They are not debates so and ponder what someone on the
much as people disparaging their opposite side of an issue is saying?
Rodney King asked in Los An-
counterparts.
Free speech is one of the greatest geles in 1992, “Can’t we all just get
gifts America has given itself, but it along?” The same question is still
has not always been easy. Through viable almost 30 years later. Peo-
the centuries of the United States ple are generally good—we should
people have died for expressing remind ourselves of that. Everyday.
their beliefs—the January 6 riot at People don’t wake up in the morn-
the U.S. Capitol is but the latest ex- nig and wonder how they can mess
up somebody’s day. We all respond
ample.
We teach our young children to what we hear and experience
that words and hands are not for during our day.
Social media has made it easy for
us to react immediately to what we
read. Many times we react without
thinking what we want to say—we
defend and reinforce our beliefs.
which can cause grief for others.
The key to civility is listening.
People want to be heard and not
have their beliefs belittled. We are
all products of our backgrounds
and exprience, we can’t change that.
We can change how we respond to
what people say.
It is hard to envision a time in
the near future when the vitriol
lessens, but it must start somewhere.
It should begin with each of us.
Hard-rock beliefs will not be aban-
doned. If we can listen, ponder and
consider ideas and beliefs different
than our own, that will go a long
way to a calmer more civil society.
We all want to same thing: peace,
love and security.
(Lyndon Zaitz is publisher and
editor of the Keizertimes.)
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5:50 p.m. - Failure to perform duties of
driver when property was damaged in
the 4000 block of River Road N.
11:29 p.m. - Fraud use of credit card in
the 4000 block of River Road N.
FRIDAY, MARCH 5
11:59 a.m. - Theft in the 800 block of
Lockhaven Drive N.
1:24 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 3000 block
of River Road N.
2:10 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 6000 block
of Ulali Drive.
2:15 p.m. - Unlawful possession of meth-
amphetamine in the 3000 block of River
Road N.
2:51 p.m. - Theft in the 3000 block of
River Road N.
2:57 p.m. - Theft in the 6000 block of
Keizer Station Blvd.
3:18 p.m. - Theft in the 4000 block of
Cherry Avenue NE.
9:29 p.m. - Criminal trespassing in the
2000 block of Jorie Lane NE.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6
7:48 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the
2000 block of Kennedy Circle NE.
4:19 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 6000 block
of Ulali Drive.
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Friends have told me they are so
By DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
White House press briefi ngs glad Biden doesn’t tweet. He does, I
are no longer must-see TV. With tell them, and they’re shocked.
Why didn’t they know? There’s
former President Donald Trump
gone, if you want to watch the daily no news in Biden’s tweets. There
are no nasty nicknames.
briefi ngs, you can’t just
Biden doesn’t make every-
turn on cable news
thing about himself. Rather
networks that rely on
than use Twitter to exact re-
ratings.In President Joe
other
venge against critics, Biden
Biden’s White House,
voices
uses Twitter to promote his
C-SPAN is your safe
agenda.
bet.
When reporters ask Psaki
Because of corona-
about Trump’s latest sound
virus social distancing
protocols, there are no crammed bite, Psaki makes it clear that she
rows of questioners from assorted does not want to engage. More
media outlets shouting questions at non-Trumpian behavior: walking
press secretary Jen Psaki. The back away from a fi ght.
I am not saying that the Biden
and forth is civil.
Even without the COVID-19 administration is staffed by cup-
rules, you know that the mood in cakes. They can play hardball with
the room is different simply because the best of them.
Biden deputy press secretary
Trump, with his arsenal of grudg-
es and suspicion of “fake news,” is TJ Ducklo threatened a Politico re-
porter who was working on a story
gone.
The hostility between Trump about his personal relationship with
and the press was evident at his fi rst Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.
press secretary’s very fi rst remarks in “I will destroy you,” Ducklo told
the James S. Brady briefi ng room. Tara Palmeri according to Vanity
From the moment Sean Spicer Fair. Ducklo also told Palmieri she
wrongly called out the press corps was “jealous” because a man she had
for “deliberately false reporting” on been interested in preferred Mc-
the Trump inauguration crowd size, Cammond instead.
Ducklo’s behavior was downright
savvy broadcasters understood that
Trump’s briefi ngs offered not only Trumpian, except in one important
way—he intimidated Palmeri over
news but also entertainment.
The Biden press team doesn’t the phone during what was sup-
want to compete with that. “Sleepy posed to be an off-the-record con-
Joe” Biden, as the 45th president versation.
After the Vanity Fair report,
called him, won by offering Amer-
ica the opposite of Trump—civility, Ducklo, who has stage 4 lung can-
predictability, a willingness to gov- cer, apologized in a letter to Palmeri
and was suspended for a week with-
ern off camera.
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out pay.
Reporters then questioned if
Ducklo’s continued employment
undercut Biden’s Inauguration Day
promise to “fi re on the spot” any
staffer who treats colleagues with
disrespect. Ducklo promptly re-
signed.
It was all very old school.
Which brings me to the other
perception readers have shared—
because the Biden team does its
heavy lifting off camera, they see
this White House as a sleepy back-
water that probably feels like a vaca-
tion after four years of Trump.
Not even close. If you look at the
briefi ng room today, you’ll see that a
number of faces in the Trump press
corps are gone. Some have been
replaced by reporters who covered
the Biden campaign, others have
moved on to beats that don’t keep
them on a news treadmill that runs
nonstop.
After 30-plus years writing for
daily newspapers, four years cover-
ing Trump and fi ve weeks covering
Biden, I am out of gas. Covering
Trump was like riding a roller coast-
er, and covering Biden looks like a
running a marathon after a roller
coaster ride. Thanks for joining me
on the roller coaster. I’m getting off
here.
In case you’re wondering, I’m
not sure what’s next— a return to
journalism or something different.
But fi rst, I plan a month or two to
sleep, read and recharge. Then I can
decide about the next ride.
Lyndon Zaitz
publisher@keizertimes.com
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