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Guest Column: The Oregon Kids’ Credit helps families in need

Tax filing season is upon us. And if you are a parent raising a young child, and your…

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Guest Column: Start your engines for the Legislature

The 35-day legislative session that began Monday will challenge everyone at the Oregon Capitol, from Democratic Gov. Tina…

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Behind the News: ‘Stories are important because it helps us see the world in new and different ways’

These are fraught times to be a librarian. Every year, the Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse gathers information on…

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Writer’s Notebook: ‘Let’s start a newspaper’

In one of the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movies of the Depression era, those juvenile stars shouted: “Let’s put…

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Guest Column: Habitat conservation plan gives measure of certainty to state forests

The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners recently sent a letter to the Board of Forestry, which oversees the…

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Guest Column: Measure 110 redux is underway

Proposed revisions to much-maligned Measure 110 are a failure. So say groups on opposing sides of the drug…

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Publisher’s Notebook: The Astorian will hold ‘office hours’ for help with digital access

Thanks for reading The Astorian. I never take for granted that you invest your hard-earned dollars into receiving…

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Guest Column: Oregon has too many committees and not enough action

After listening to speaker after speaker discuss Oregon’s substance abuse crisis, state Rep. Kevin Mannix had a logical…

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Behind the News: ‘I think things will get straight’

After a second wave of leadership turnover in the past eight months, Ed Johnson has emerged as the…

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Writer’s Notebook: Wyden talks spying, Israel and Biden’s age

As a Washington, D.C., correspondent, I shared an office with The Seattle Times on the top floor of…

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