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Wandschneider: The price of success

Oregon is the poster child for states with low incidence of COVID-19 sickness and death, and Wallowa County…

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Other Voices: A healthy town is a place to meet and enjoy other people’s company,

When I was a kid growing up in Enterprise in the 1950s and 60s, it was a much…

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Mountain Medicine

Science poorly conducted or poorly reported is counter to the public interest.(JAMA, April 24, 2020). Finding effective treatments…

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Devin Patton Column: Victimhood-The path to terror

It doesn’t take long to encounter the sorts of people that can easily be recognized as “victims of…

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Predicting the rise and fall of a pandemic

I have fished for trout for many years. I have learned that there are some predictors that seem…

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It’s going to be a long haul, part 2

Following up on last week’s piece, the aim of this final piece is to put COVID-19 into historical…

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Main Street Wansdchneider Quiet Streets and Schools—What’s Next?

The sky above Joseph is quiet and clear—I can’t remember the last time I looked up to hear…

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My View: Pandemic, policy and politics

As I was nearing the conclusion of my first legislative session in May of 2013, someone asked me…

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View from the Gallery We need a better, stronger, unified response to COVID-19

A View from the Gallery I had been trying to stay away from writing about this Covid-19 stuff,…

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A letter to Gov. Kate Brown (Other Voices)

Dear Governor Brown: I respectfully request that you rescind Executive Order 20-07 as applied to churches and other…

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