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Craig Hoppes: Astoria schools thrive, despite challenges
Astoria School District students are halfway through the 2024-2025 school year. Students continue to come to school eager ...
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Editor’s Notebook: Help decipher the American Revolution
To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it ...
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Guest column: LA’s devastating wildfires must spark change
The hurricane-force winds like those that fueled fast-moving Southern California wildfires have exasperated firefighters in Western states for ...
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State must find real answers for vulnerable youth
For nearly a decade, Oregon’s approach to child welfare has amounted to a pathetic game of whack-a-mole. The ...
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Guest column: How should Oregon pay for roads in the future?
You may go to the store and think: These prices are too damn high. Well, the price of ...
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Guest column: OT reform would benefit workers as much as farmers
Do-gooders in Salem and Olympia thought they were helping farmworkers when they passed legislation to phase out the ...
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Guest Column: Time for Kotek to look at saving old-growth forests
Oregon has a own dwindling supply of old-growth forests that need saving, and Gov. Tina Kotek could consider ...
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Writer’s Notebook: Our roads are paved with skulls
As another presidency and Congress end without curing the contemptible injustice of leaving the Chinook Indian Nation unrecognized, ...
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Guest Column: 2025 is off to a chatty start
To whet your political appetite for 2025, here is a spicy goulash of quotations, anecdotes and other recent ...
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Editorial: Carter’s embargo was one of many causes of farm crisis
Jimmy Carter was the last working farmer to have been elected president. His administration’s agricultural legacy was formed ...