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Guest Column: Taxpayer alert: Your home mortgage interest deduction is at risk

Wouldn’t it be great if our government officials had to take the political equivalent of the medical doctor’s…

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Gardening corner: Think like a plant; create a more water-efficient garden

How should we garden in a drought? Maybe we need to learn to think like a plant. The…

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Guest Column: If we don’t measure it, we can’t manage it

We are in a time of water scarcity in Deschutes County. We are all aware of our surface…

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Community choir back in tune

Magical. That was the word many of us used to describe our experience in the fall 2019 when…

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Column: Will progress spoil Dry Canyon park?

Think of Redmond parks and what name pops up? Probably the Dry Canyon Park. Occupant of Redmond’s unique…

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Offbeat Oregon: Deadly ’64 tsunami damages Oregon Coast

On the evening of March 23, 1964, Seaside resident Margaret Gammon hadn’t been asleep more than an hour…

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Column: 100 days of misery

It took me 150 days, On my first day, in June, i trudged up Misery Ridge without a…

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Fitzpatrick: The meaning of Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a day when we stand united as one nation to pause and to remember. We…

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Gardening Column: Bend’s city flower vote had some ballot-box stuffing

Once upon a time, a long time ago (actually in 1925) the Civic League of Bend decided the…

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Column: Redmond event illustrates living in poverty

A couple dozen Redmond residents stepped into new shoes on Friday morning at Mountainview Fellowship Church. For many…

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