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COLUMN: Trans athletes and the challenge of playing fair

Lia Thomas is an accomplished athlete. She’s also a brave woman. But her achievements in the swimming pool…

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COLUMN: A sordid but little-known piece of Oregon history

That someone went to an Oregon state park on a summer night and attacked two young women with…

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COLUMN: Continued vigilance for COVID-19

For two years, we have all eagerly awaited a time when the worry about COVID-19 was in our…

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COLUMN: Watching the Stang Gang celebrate a milestone

The Stang Gang was nearly 200 miles from home, but for one night they made the Baker High…

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COLUMN: Long winter leaves yard needing a makeover

Our yard has reached its seasonal apex of ugliness. I noticed this the other afternoon when I stopped…

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COLUMN: The journalist-politician has worked well for Oregon

It is unfortunate that Nicholas Kristof won’t be on the Oregon Democratic primary ballot for governor. Kristof and…

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COLUMN: Remembering a great team — and a great writer

I don’t know what I was doing while the Baker High School boys basketball team was trying to…

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COLUMN: Fearing for the future of childhood vaccination

Vaccines have been much in the news the past couple years but I fear this ubiquitous publicity bodes…

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COLUMN: Hero to fan: Savoring the Bulldog-Badger rivalry

Reece Dixon walked across the nearly empty parking lot at the Baker High School gymnasium. The hero, like…

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COLUMN: The persistence of a person’s worldly possessions

We bought a new mattress recently and the effects of this otherwise modest decision, which continued for some…

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