By Jeb Bladine • President / Publisher • March 28, 2025 TweetWhatchamacolumn: Career criminals play a role in budget deficitsMcMinnville’s huge city budget deficit was on display this week, with officials trying to figure out why it evolved while grappling with how to respond. Meanwhile, there are myriad suggestions for reducing costs, and here are two more:Make it less comfortable for transients to migrate here, and make it easier to send career criminals away. Many of those arrests involved local career criminals, representing the too-well-oiled revolving door of Oregon’s justice system. Just to mention a few:Bobby Joe Stark, 32, of Sheridan is a rare career criminal whose record lacks an array of drug charges. Drug-driven career criminals, perhaps, need higher-quality, longer-duration incarceration services.