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Our view: New laws that might make for a better 2024

More police officers and firefighters die by suicide than on the job. The Oregon Legislature tried to do…

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EDITORIAL: Council faces hectic, and vital, start to 2024

The Baker City Council won’t have the luxury of easing into 2024. The seven councilors, all of whom…

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Our view: ODFW might need to be more aggressive in dealing with wolves

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission’s Dec. 14 conclusion that it wasn’t necessary to change the state’s wolf…

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EDITORIAL: Drivers: Trust your eyes, not your (not so) smartphone

The emigrants who traveled the Oregon Trail lacked smartphones and GPS and every other modern navigation tool. But…

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Our view: Oregon needs to do more to combat domestic violence

More often than not it seems we are a society fixated on the most recent news bite or…

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EDITORIAL: Welcome signs of interest from the west side

A couple recent episodes knocked chunks out of the figurative barrier between Eastern Oregon and the state’s population…

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Our view: Want to speed up freeway travel? Slow down

The sequence of events was depressing in its predictability. Snow begins to fall. Snow begins to stick on…

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EDITORIAL: Proper placement for needle drop box

Discarded syringes are potentially dangerous. We can all agree on that. Putting these needles in a secure metal…

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Our view: Good news at last for Eastern

Good news sometimes seems hard to come by, but the recent announcement that Eastern Oregon University’s first-year enrollment…

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EDITORIAL: ODFW might need to kill more wolves

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife plans to kill up to six wolves from a pack that…

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