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Column: Loneliness and the holidays

To begin, I would like to discuss the meaning of loneliness. Loneliness is a “state of mind.” Loneliness…

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Commentary: Farmers help keep food costs down

This Thanksgiving, I hope you piled on an extra helping of sweet potatoes and enjoy a third round…

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BRIGHT SIDE COLUMN: A thankful Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! I know a lot of you will have turkey or something else with all the goodies…

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Offbeat Oregon: The race to build a railroad along the Deschutes

Sometime in the late spring of 1909, at the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company’s ticket booth in Portland,…

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Column: Community colleges make economic impact on Oregon

Oregon’s community colleges are a cornerstone of our state’s economic landscape. A comprehensive economic analysis released in August,…

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Vertrees: Future of Pac-12 in doubt, past glories to be lost

Regardless of whether one is a sports fan, residents of the Pacific Coast have been aware of the…

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Column: Oregon’s assault on the power grid

In 2000, the electricity grid was named the top engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National…

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Column: Trusted and reliable, local newspapers matter to their communities

A recent Gallup study showed that America’s confidence in the national mass media has reached a near record…

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Gardening corner: Extending the growning season all in the seed

The last tomato has been picked. Potatoes and carrots have been dug and put into storage. A gardeners…

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Column: In others’ words

This column is built using the words of others, odd scraps, random quotations that I saved over the…

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