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Guest Column: We Oregonians

We Oregonians are in a time of transition. “We Oregonians” means all of us: indigenous peoples, multigenerational residents…

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Guest Column: Oregon’s forest laws are outdated

Oregon’s outdated forest laws are failing our communities and our environment. They threaten our water and degrade our…

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Guest Column: Crabbers face new rules to protect whales

Oregon’s commercial crabbing industry prides itself on sustainability. Though Dungeness crab has been harvested commercially since the late…

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Writer’s Notebook: Breaking barriers, in baseball and opera

It is a reader’s joy to discover a favorite author writing about a favorite person. That was my…

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Guest Column: Our present and future remain mired in the past

Historians love to quote William Faulkner about how the “past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Southerners…

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Guest Column: Boone’s case should spur campaign finance reform

Today’s wheels of civic progress turn so slowly at all levels of government. Often it feels like we’re…

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Behind the News: ‘I did my due diligence’

State Rep. Tiffiny Mitchell is the target of a recall drive by #TimberUnity over her vote for cap…

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Writer’s Notebook: Scraps of the past — A family scrapbook serves as time machine to 1919

It may be what my grandmother Hilda Bell and her mom had in mind a century ago when…

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Behind the News: ‘These cases will truly clog up our court system’

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum supported a resolution in the state Legislature that would have asked voters in…

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Guest Column: Facing climate crisis, we need real unity

Earlier this year, I spent a few days, all too short, with my mother. At the time, I…

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