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Column: Keeping America’s public lands and waters is a business imperative

America’s public lands and waters support an outdoor recreation economy that generates an astonishing $1.2 trillion annually, sustains…

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Column: Canaries, foxes and Dry Canyon

In the early 1900s, British coal miners started taking caged canaries into coal mines with them. Why? Because…

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Column: Criminalizing homelessness doesn’t work

In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced…

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Column: Commencement concludes for college grads

The start of summer overlaps the end of the academic year at Upper Metolius State College of Engineering…

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BRIGHT SIDE COLUMN: Fathers do it all for family

Dads, we love you! Our dads are so special in our lives. They also work like our moms,…

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Column: Housing development near Terrebonne puts farmland at risk

Oregon’s land use system is designed to provide certainty — certainty for communities, for businesses, and individuals making…

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Column: Catch cancer early, you can enjoy a long and healthy life

I’ve never been flamboyant with my opinions, nor have I spread to the world many of the nuances…

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Column: The gold star of our block

Everyone in my block of downtown Redmond knew everything about Mary Peterson, and Mary Peterson knew everything about…

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Column: Obey the ombudsmen and ombudswomen

During the past week the administration at Upper Metolius State College of Engineering and Poetry completed beta testing…

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Column: School board should protect intellectual freedom

My name is Ashley Proctor, and I’m running for the Redmond School Board because I believe in a…

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