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Writers on the Range: Tips for a new Westerner
Hurray, you’ve moved to the rural West from a crowded subdivision or city where the traffic has become ...
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Capital Chatter: Kotek keeps promises, but remains unpopular
Gov. Tina Kotek is not exactly a carbon copy of her liberal predecessor, Kate Brown. Kotek is just ...
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Capital Chatter: Salem payroll tax could mean exodus of commuters
Salem could be on the verge of becoming the state capital in name only. The city’s new tax ...
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Capital Chatter: Sen. Boquist’s ‘unsavory’ comments deemed protected speech
“I understand the threats from members of the majority that you want to arrest me, you want to ...
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Writers on the Range: Too many tourists follow a leader
A spectacular picture recently appeared on social media of a young lady in Arizona. She was poised on ...
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Roger Hockett: In search of a simpler, slower life
As a young boy riding old Diamond near Downey Lake on The Divide, I would sometimes daydream about ...
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Capital Chatter: Self-service gasoline may — or may not — be on its way to Oregon
This spring, my wife and I ably filled our car’s gas tank at service stations around the West: ...
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Randy Stapilus: KKK collapse offers useful clues today
“Fever in the Heartland” is one of the most pertinent new books this season, especially for Oregon where ...
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Capital Chatter: A weird legislative session got weirder at the end
In its final hours, the oddest of Oregon legislative sessions got even weirder. Sunday, June 25 began normally ...
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Randy Stapilus: GOP staged historic walkout, but didn’t get much for it
The 2023 Oregon legislative session was dominated by a six-week strike, the longest by legislators in the state’s ...