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COLUMN: Poachers steal from hunters — and everyone else

They’re called poachers but it seems to me that they’re just common thieves. No different from the cretins…

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COLUMN: Online humor from a most unexpected source

Government bureaucrats are known for many things but humor, I submit, wouldn’t make the top 10 on anybody’s…

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Pharmacy closures causing troubling ripple effects

Rural Oregonians have long counted on local pharmacies deeply rooted in their communities for quality service. But those…

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COLUMN: Book brings me back to the summer of 1984

I owned a pair of the original Air Jordan basketball shoes, but at the distance of more than…

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COLUMN: Newsroom tax credit will empower local journalism

Imagine this page was blank except for one question: “What if there were no local reporters?” That was…

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COLUMN: Stroll around home town provokes nostalgia

The man was stepping out the front door of the home where I grew up, and as I…

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COLUMN: Who benefits from River Democracy Act?

Sen. Ron Wyden has proposed adding over 4,700 miles of waterways to the federal Wild & Scenic Rivers…

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COLUMN: Balmy autumn night, and missing the light show

I stepped onto my back porch on a recent evening, long after the dark had come, and I…

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COLUMN: Laying bare the realities of splatters in the kitchen

An email that starts with the word “nudists” is likely to stop my right hand before it can…

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COLUMN: The troubling trend from Oregon’s highways

The most dangerous activity most of us engage in on a daily basis is one we generally consider…

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