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Guest Column: Cap and trade won’t solve any problems

I was deeply saddened to read the editorial published by The Astorian in support of the cap-and-trade bill…

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Guest Column: ‘I’m in the fight of my life’

I started out picking strawberries for our neighbors at 6 years old, and graduated to picking black caps…

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Writer’s Notebook: Paying a price for secrecy

Secrecy is the enemy of public health. That truism has been reconfirmed in China, where the totalitarian government…

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Writer’s Notebook: Late senator was like a meteor

The fleeting shelf life of fame is nowhere better illustrated than in politics. A typical mayor or state…

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Writer’s Notebook: Rural America on a tightrope

Drive through the picturesque town of Yamhill at the foot of the hills of the Willamette Valley and…

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Guest Column: Will rally sway lawmakers?

SALEM — At 5:30 a.m. Thursday, the Oregon Capitol was eerily quiet. My arrival was so early that…

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Guest Column: Cap and trade is not extreme

Perhaps you still doubt whether climate change is really occurring. Or, perhaps you accept it is occurring, but…

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Guest Column: Climate change just another political controversy

The climate change debate isn’t really about a change in the world’s climate. Almost everybody knows the earth…

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Guest Column: Shocked by counties in timber suit

I was shocked when I heard the Washington County commission had decided to join Linn County in a…

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Writer’s Notebook: Our luck versus ancient foes won’t last forever

Dead outnumbered the living on the Great Plains in the terrible winter of 1846-47 as white settlers began…

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