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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…
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Capital Chatter: Want to help Oregon? Make new friends
As 2023 concludes, let me paraphrase and localize President John F. Kennedy’s memorable words from his 1961 inaugural…
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Writers on the Range: Out-of-state hunters provide economic boost
A disgruntled hunter wrote a Writers on the Range opinion recently about Westerners getting fed up with the…
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Writers on the Range: A warning from the snowbirds
No, this isn’t about those folks who spend their winters in Arizona or Florida. The snowbird behind this…
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Main Street: It’s the most wonderful time …
Of the year. That is what the song says, and the words that get blasted across air and…
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Capital Chatter: When Oregon priorities collide, someone loses
The news headlines following last week’s Oregon Leadership Summit were all about the unveiling of a collaborative plan,…
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Capital Chatter: A big win for rural roads
Rural Oregonians and Republican politicians got a big win recently. The Oregon Department of Transportation essentially rescinded its…
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Randy Stapilus: Measure 110 needs fixes, not repeal
In November 2020, Measure 110, which generally decriminalized small-scale possession of illicit drugs. That passage was a call…
