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It’s about health and wellness: Tips to stay healthy as we approach a new year

To say 2020 was an exceptional year, and generally not in a good way, would be an overstatement…

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Other views: Three governors, three different COVID responses

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s order of additional restrictions prior to Thanksgiving elicited expected responses, from those who signal…

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Other Views: Let’s deal with the present pandemic as best we can

A little over 20 years ago, this grandmother was in Hermiston sitting with her infant grandson when suddenly…

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Mountain Medicine: Unmasking a masking study

Highly effective vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection should become available to the general population during 2021. In the…

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Other views: Time to fix broken rivers

I belong to the Wallowa and Palouse bands of the Nez Perce. My family are descendants of Chief…

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Other views: Let’s find reasons to give thanks

This is the year of “for better or worse.” And despite the human ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic,…

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Writers on the range: It’s time to come to the aid of wildland firefighters

By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The West, with its thousands of federal, state and…

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Facts about the unspoken epidemic — despair

Due (in part) to medical advances and better life style choices, the average life span of Americans has…

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Other Views: To eat or not to eat, is that the question?

I know that every person reading this letter likes to eat. Not only that, you have to eat…

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Other Views: Horse meat should be considered as food for the poor

To watch the nightly news showing long lines of drivers accepting food handouts because their families are hungry…

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