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Page 4A OPINION East Oregonian Saturday, January 10, 2015 OTHER VIEWS Founded October 16, 1875 KATHRYN B. BROWN DANIEL WATTENBURGER Publisher Managing Editor JENNINE PERKINSON TIM TRAINOR Advertising Director Opinion Page Editor EO MEDIA GROUP East Oregonian • The Daily Astorian • Capital Press • Hermiston Herald Blue Mountain Eagle • Wallowa County Chieftain • Chinook Observer • Coast River Business Journal Oregon Coast Today • Coast Weekend • Seaside Signal • Cannon Beach Gazette Eastern Oregon Real Estate Guide • Eastern Oregon Marketplace • Coast Marketplace OnlyAg.com • FarmSeller.com • Seaside-Sun.com • NorthwestOpinions.com • DiscoverOurCoast.com MIKE FORRESTER Pendleton Chairman of the Board STEVE FORRESTER Astoria President TOM BROWN Bigfork, Mont. Director KATHRYN B. BROWN Pendleton Secretary/Treasurer JEFF ROGERS Indianapolis, Ind. Director OUR VIEW Army should give straight answer on future of depot T he journalists at Charlie Hebdo as martyrs on behalf of freedom Umatilla and Morrow County were David Brooks It was also buoyed by it — the Comment That organization, the Columbia There were going through the of businesses in different industries and building on the That is the sound of the needle seeing that while their religion may be Taxpayers footed the bill from Day 1. If the Army needs funding, it should come from Congressionally- approved sources, not land sale. burden should be are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend the bill from Day 1, The University of Illinois needs funding, it The University of Kansas If the Umatilla for writing a harsh tweet is no longer a hazardous but fading suddenly and the bright lights Charlie Hebdo for being Ayaan Hirsi Ali is invited to what it has been doing well for that they may want to hold on to So this might be a slaughter of those writers As we are mortified by the slaughter of those writers and editors in Paris, it’s a good time to come up with a less hypocritical approach to our own controversial figures, provocateurs and satirists. insulters, we want to maintain standards of at the same time allowing are uninhibited by good almost always wrong to try manners are more malleable avenues for those who are Le Monde or the engage in the sort of deliberately offensive The neighbors in Hermiston, views of reality and more forgiving views attentively have to earn it through their Unsigned editorials are the opinion of the East Oregonian editorial board of Publisher Kathryn Brown, Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, and Opinion Page Editor Tim Trainor. Other columns, letters and cartoons on this page express the opinions of the authors and not necessarily that of the East Oregonian. should remind us to be legally tolerant toward David Brooks became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in September 2003. YOUR VIEWS Disrespectful to replace Darby with Esther Motanic statue In regard to the letter in the East Oregonian of Stella Darby with the statue of Esther LETTERS POLICY The East Oregonian welcomes original letters of 400 words or less on public issues and public policies for publication in the newspaper and on our website. The newspaper reserves the right to withhold letters that address concerns about individual services and products or letters that infringe on the rights of private citizens. Submitted letters must be signed by the author and include the city of residence and a daytime phone number. The phone number will not be published. Unsigned letters will not be published. Send letters to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. Be heard! Comment online at eastoregonian.com or our Facebook and Twitter sites Jerry Severe Pendleton Recipe for disaster: limiting motorized use on public land motorized use: Ingredients: one regional forester, three •Add in two others that will blend smoothly John D. George Bates Ore. around $5,000 dollars a year to turn a deaf
