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From the editor’s desk: Chieftain nabs six awards in statewide contest
The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association handed out awards last week in its 2023 Better Newspaper Contest, and I’m ...
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Roger Hockett: Wallowa County faces an economic threshold
Throughout the Western United States, scenic small towns are being inundated with development and population growth. The average ...
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Writers on the Range: Goats can be a forest’s best friend
Goats are particularly good at one thing: Eating. Unlike a horse or cow that leaves noxious weeds behind, ...
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From the general manager: We’re working to fix our customer-service issues
Serving our customers and readers well is one of our top priorities and, to be honest, over the ...
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Capital Chatter: For Kotek, big challenges, personal changes
Tina Kotek describes herself as a hands-on governor. That’s an understatement. “I came at political life as a ...
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Writers on the Range: Blow the whistle to protect our lands
Dozens of TVs, refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and abandoned cars have either been gunshot, torched or both. This ...
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Capital Chatter: Life (and more construction) returns to the Capitol
Lawmakers and lobbyists — and perhaps a few members of the public who have nothing else to do ...
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Main Street: Of east and west, rural and urban
The Greater Idaho movement is getting more press than it could have hoped for — and maybe more ...
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Learning to live with wildfire
Humans have learned to fear wildfire. It can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities ...
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Capital Chatter: Kicker questions, we have lots
The dire predictions didn’t come true. Legislative Democrats did not steal Oregonians’ income tax kicker. Or, legislators lost ...