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COLUMN: Balmy winter fails to keep the mud in check
I have acquired a piece of waterfront property without spending a dollar or signing a single form written ...
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COLUMN: Baker basketball fans should savor limited chances to watch the Bulldogs
Baker High School basketball fans might feel deprived. And not without reason. Their chances this season to watch ...
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COLUMN: Pondering progress on the final day of the year
You can buy a Crunchwrap Supreme in Baker City but you can’t have a baby delivered in a ...
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COLUMN: Beginning to worry about missing a white Christmas
Christmas approaches and my disdain for the weather deepens. Snow is hardly a necessary ingredient to the cherished ...
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COLUMN: Illuminating book about efforts to prevent mass shootings
“Optimism” might seem an improbable word to appear in a lengthy discussion about mass shootings. But author Mark ...
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COLUMN: Kennedy’s vaccine comments troubling for a potential cabinet member
There are two versions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and since I don’t know which version would reign ...
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COLUMN: For the first time in 108 years, snow falls with no roof to land on
I thought I would have no more epiphanies about the destruction of Baker City’s Central Building until I ...
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COLUMN: PETA’s unique take on a traditional Thanksgiving dinner
I’m thinking about shooting a chukar to replace the traditional Thanksgiving turkey, and I blame the vegans for ...
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COLUMN: Measure 118 brought Oregonians together — to say no to a new tax
The campaign promoting Oregon’s Measure 118 on the Nov. 5 ballot, which would have imposed a new corporate ...
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COLUMN: Two-faced campaigns: Politician photos and attack ads
No one ever looks worse than they do in a photograph that’s featured in a campaign television ad. ...