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Guest Column: Prepare for digital storms

Think of the hazards threatened by ransomware as akin to those caused by the Great Coastal Gale of…

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Behind the News: ‘I want more people to speak out’

The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police ignited protests against racism and police brutality around the world.…

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Writer’s Notebook: Let’s relearn how to live together

It is a curse to live in an era you do not understand. It is a fair bet…

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Behind the News: ‘When asked to do so, we step up’

Over the winter, as coronavirus cases surged, Clatsop County turned to the private sector for help with the…

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Guest Column: Stop the Pebble Mine forever

Every summer, thousands of commercial and sport fishermen, seafood processors and sport fishing guides — many of them…

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Guest Column: We cannot afford to wait

If social justice matters to our congressional delegation, which we believe it does, then it is long past…

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Guest Column: Unity and strength through diversity

For the second year in a row, Memorial Day observances in communities, organizations and even within family groups…

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Guest Column: The long, strange trip to gun reform

Well, that was anticlimactic. And strange, maybe even bizarre. On a near party-line vote, the Oregon Senate passed…

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Writer’s Notebook: If we will listen, graveyards will speak to us

The dead are always with us. That is especially so in a town as old as Astoria. Our…

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Publisher’s Notebook: Print hub a hidden asset

Fish processors and wood products come to mind when thinking of manufacturing in Clatsop County. There’s also the…

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