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Publisher’s Notebook: An apology for our customer service

Let’s just get straight to it. If you’ve tried to contact us in the past few months, let…

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Guest Column: Action needed to break the cycle of wildfires

Oregonians are suffering from an alarming cycle of destruction, evacuations, toxic smoke and devastated landscapes.We shouldn’t accept this…

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Guest Column: A savior or privateer?

Oregon entered unchartered waters with the announcement that Legacy Health System, a private health care provider, would “merge”…

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Guest Column: Tax breaks are not race-neutral

Tax breaks — officially called “tax expenditures” — can either help heal the racial divide or worsen it.…

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Guest Column: Life returns to the Capitol this month

Lawmakers and lobbyists — and perhaps a few members of the public who have nothing else to do…

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Guest Column: Focus on power lines to avoid wildfire losses

Many fingers are again pointed at electric utilities because downed power lines are suspected of starting another horrific…

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Guest Column: Kicker questions, we have lots

The dire predictions didn’t come true. Legislative Democrats did not steal Oregonians’ income tax kicker. Or, legislators lost…

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Guest Column: How to protect more homes as fire risk rises

Humans have learned to fear wildfire. It can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities…

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Guest Column: Censors, keep your bumbling hands off the bard

“The Bard” of Stratford-upon-Avon is supposedly our new corrupter of youth. News reports indicated that students in a…

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Guest Column: Lower Snake River dams fill many roles

Imagine our growing Inland Empire, built out as it is with cities, industries and lifestyles, all being affected…

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