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Randy Stapilus: Court case could affect access to recreational sites
If you take your dog for a walk from your home, walking some distance to a local park ...
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Capital Chatter: Too many committees, not enough action
After listening to speaker after speaker discuss Oregon’s substance abuse crisis, Rep. Kevin Mannix had a logical question: ...
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Randy Stapilus: Oregon needs a broad path to stem homelessness
Oregon’s leading political issue in recent years, homelessness, is also one of the most difficult to solve. A ...
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Capital Chatter: Oregon’s CEO reflects on a year of progress — and a few misses
A broken aircraft rained on Gov. Tina Kotek’s anniversary celebration. Only a couple of TV crews joined the ...
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Main Street: The year turns, local and simple
The year 2023 rushed to its end for me, in fact almost ending it all with my rollover ...
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Capital Chatter: Kotek stays silent on Measure 110 revisions
One curiosity about Gov. Tina Kotek is her current hands-off approach to revising Measure 110, the drug-decriminalizing and ...
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Capital Chatter: Kotek grows into the role as governor
Gov. Tina Kotek’s tour of Oregon’s 36 counties fascinated me. It was an audacious commitment to accomplish within ...
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Randy Stapilus: Sense of belonging is key to improving student progress
The public school system in Shaker Heights, a suburban city southeast of Cleveland, is something of a model ...
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Other Views: How a fight over chickens united a community
It took two years in a fight over chickens — yes, chickens! — to show how partisan divides ...
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Roger Hockett: For some of us, honesty still matters
What is one’s personal word worth? Presently, not much for a lot of folks. We are in the ...