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Guest Column: Why I oppose mink farming

Born and raised on a small farm in Twin Falls, Idaho, I’m probably the last person you would…

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Guest Column: Oregon has new money, old problems

8:02 a.m. Wednesday: State economists Mark McMullen and Josh Lehner begin updating the Legislature’s tax committees on how…

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Guest Column: Legislature returns with ‘wacky’ reputation

The Oregon Legislature came back to Salem last week and quickly fulfilled its increasingly wacky reputation. On the…

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Guest Column: Limit the harm deportation inflicts

A little over a year ago, when much of the economy remained shut due to the COVID pandemic,…

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Guest Column: Fire and melting ice

Fire and ice. It was as stunning as it was tragic. In Colorado, raging grass fires one week,…

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Guest Column: A frenetic agenda for short session

The Oregon Legislature could impose a sales tax on luxury cars, RVs, electronics, boats, snowmobiles, jewelry, guns, clothing…

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Guest Column: A place on your bookshelf

At a recent holiday party from that long-gone year 2021, I ran into Bob Pyle, who presented with…

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Writer’s Notebook: Running for governor with Portland in a nosedive

Many of the Christmas letters my wife and I received this holiday season contained an extra measure of…

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Guest Column: Putting The Oregon Way back into politics

Oregonians waste too much time arguing. That is today’s topic: COVID-19. But before we get to the coronavirus,…

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Behind the News: ‘The best experience I have is around knowing the process’

Rachel Armitage embraces her role as a placeholder. Armitage, of Warren, made it clear during her campaign for…

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