Columns

Dick Hughes: Curtain rises on 2025 Legislature

The 2025 Oregon Legislature got off to a glorious start last week, full of promise for collaboration, productivity…

Columns

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…

Columns

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…

Columns

Dick Hughes: A plea for kindness across our many divisions

This is not the column I planned to write, the one for which I interviewed legislators this week.…

Columns

Randy Stapilus: Three questions for Oregon Democrats

In contrast to the national scene, Democrats in Oregon have moved into a powerful position. Oregon’s government has…

Editorials

From the editor’s desk

Thank you for your interest in reading The Astorian. Here are a few stories that you might have…

Columns

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…

Opinion

Editorial Cartoon: The Bezos Post

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Saddened

Robert Hansen re Astoria Riverwalk lighting

Letters to the Editor

Letter: A fourth alternative

Roger Dorband re Heritage Square

Marketplace