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COLUMN: A dropped baton can’t erase four Baker runners’ feat
If it was any race other than a relay, Baker’s state championship would have been official. But there ...
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Capital chatter: Kotek’s unpopularity is a Brown legacy
Among the baffling aspects of Gov. Tina Kotek’s tenure is that she ranks among the nation’s least-popular governors, ...
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COLUMN: Let’s get together to celebrate Baker City’s renaissance
In September of 2022, Gary Ernest Smith walked in the door of Crossroads. He asked us to do ...
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COLUMN: Bran has been frosted, and sugar’s triumph is final
Bran flakes have been frosted, an official, factory-applied embellishment, and sugar’s triumph is at last complete. The outcome ...
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EDITORIAL: Trio of recent crashes raises troubling issues
Three recent vehicle crashes illustrate the danger that people who drive while impaired can pose to anyone who ...
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COLUMN: Lazy slobs foul public forests with their trash
At first I thought the pile of trash was a snowdrift. I wish it had been. From a ...
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COLUMN: Shocked when landline phone breaks its long silence
I was enjoying the blissful mental stupefaction that only television can create when the headache-inducing electronic tone blared ...
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Other views: Protect yourself from disinformation during 2024 elections
This election season, Oregonians could play a crucial role in deciding which party will control the U.S. House ...
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COLUMN: Sanctity of the shelves: Celebrating library’s new challenge policy
The national tide of specious attempts to ban books from public libraries has not left its noxious flotsam ...
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COLUMN: Watching brief human stories play out in the airport
The boy, perhaps 5 or a precocious 6, glanced to his right as he approached the glass door ...