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Capital chatter: Lawmakers are talking past each other on Measure 110

One curiosity about Gov. Tina Kotek is her current hands-off approach to revising Measure 110, the drug-decriminalizing and…

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COLUMN: The long campaign against leaves, and missing the first baby

I have been engaged since early autumn in a competition against the trees on my modest residential plot…

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Capital chatter: Ask not what Oregon can do for you …

As 2023 concludes, let me paraphrase and localize President John F. Kennedy’s memorable words from his 1961 inaugural…

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Other views: Ditch secret backroom dam breaching deals. Let’s focus on common ground.

The recent agreement between the Biden Administration and the states of Washington and Oregon and the tribes on…

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COLUMN: Judges shouldn’t decide who’s on the ballot

The 2024 presidential campaign was certain to be a spectacle. The Colorado Supreme Court merely added another ring…

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Capital chatter: Kotek growing into the role as governor

Gov. Tina Kotek’s tour of Oregon’s 36 counties fascinated me. It was an audacious commitment to accomplish within…

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Capital chatter: When Oregon priorities collide, someone loses

The news headlines following last week’s Oregon Leadership Summit were all about the unveiling of a collaborative plan,…

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Capital chatter: Rural Oregon gets a big win

Rural Oregonians and Republican politicians got a big win last week.

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COLUMN: Poachers steal wildlife that belongs to all of us

Poaching is a crime of laziness. In that respect it reminds me of nothing so much as littering.…

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Other views: Who makes public land laws, Congress or the president?

Should a U.S. president enjoy unfettered authority to indefinitely suspend or cancel the operation of a federal law…

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