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Column: Tariff relief needed to save small businesses
A black humor joke in the medical profession is “the operation was a success, yet the patient died.”…
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Capital Chatter: Relationships key to securing funds in Salem
A city’s plea was heard. The 20,000-word House Bill 5006, which passed on the 2025 Oregon Legislature’s final…
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Column: Biomass is unburned, unused in America
Wildfires are no longer seasonal anomalies; they are a year-round national threat. This summmer, hundreds of acres burned…
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COLUMN: With federal cuts looming, leadership needed
Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed the federal budget reconciliation bill —H.R. 1 — into law. H.R. 1…
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Column: Rebuilding the American dream of homeownership
When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, he pledged — on Day One — to address the nation’s…
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Column: Redmond Senior Center can use financial support
At the Redmond Senior Center, we believe in the quiet power of consistency — of showing up, month…
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Capital Chatter: Democracy is a messy business — even in Oregon
The 2025 Oregon Legislature exemplified the Founders’ warning. Democracy – even the representative democracy the Founders established –…
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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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