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COLUMN: Turtle tale will keep my toes out of the water
The phrase “may remove chunks of skin” troubles me considerably. I don’t suppose most people can read that…
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COLUMN: Appreciating air conditioning, manmade and natural
Air conditioning is the greatest of human inventions that don’t involve beef, sugar or the electric guitar. Although…
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COLUMN: Left alone, yard weeds run riot
There’s a front yard on Auburn Avenue near Seventh Street where the weeds are tall enough to hide…
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COLUMN: Joey Chestnut: Man with the golden guts
America has had a rough go of it the past several years but so long as there walks…
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COLUMN: ‘Footprints on our hearts’ — remembering Dianne Ellingson
I met Dianne Ellingson the day I walked into my seventh-grade English class at Baker Middle School. I…
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COLUMN: Trails should be welcoming to everyone
Hiking in the hinterlands is my favorite pastime, in part because the mountains are a refuge. A refuge…
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COLUMN: The future of AI, and pondering a distant battle
I’m not worried that artificial intelligence will suddenly tire of tinkering with its algorithms and exorcise its boredom…
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COLUMN: Furnace works overtime, and the price of progress
The soft hum of the furnace awakened me and I nearly leaped from my bed, as though someone…
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COLUMN: Manson Family killer doesn’t deserve parole
More than half a century after she helped stab to death a woman she had never met, Van…
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COLUMN: Annual pilgrimage to a particular ponderosa pine
There is a particular ponderosa pine, one among the millions in Baker County, that I usually visit at…
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