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Guest Column: Tribes need to be at the table

Treaty tribes have been working for decades to get federal support for our essential wildlife programs. We’re counting…

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Guest Column: Making the ‘People’s House’ safe

The gold man atop the Oregon State Capitol has gone dark. A cavernous hole has arisen at the…

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Guest Column: Charred forest has lessons to teach

Two years after a major fire raged through the woods at Siouxon Creek, the mast-straight Douglas firs still…

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Guest column: Big Tech is steamrolling newspapers

Google and Facebook have enormous economic and political power in society — especially over the news industry. Many…

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Guest Column: Let’s party like it’s 1854

If what follows is going to make sense to you, it might help to know I’ve been a…

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Guest Column: On journalism and anniversaries

I’m closing out July the same way I started, with a column about the late political columnist Ron…

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Guest Column: Hatfield — a cautionary tale

The centennial celebration of Republican U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield’s birth provides a cautionary tale for Oregonians. Hatfield,…

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Guest Column: Prayer ruling raises questions

On first glance, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of a former Bremerton High School assistant…

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Behind the News: ‘So when does it become illegal to be human?’

Five years after Astoria created a homelessness solutions task force, the city has made little progress. Volunteers, advocates…

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Writer’s Notebook: New media are filling Oregon news deserts

George Custer is a new player in the struggle to keep Oregon news deserts from happening. Following closure…

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