Columnists

Capital Chatter: Measure 113 is a bust; here are solutions

Measure 113 is a bust. It didn’t stop legislative walkouts. It’s not as clear as its backers thought.…

Editorials

Voice of the Chieftain: Days of heat, days of fire require care

By the time you read this editorial, Wallowa County still will be sweating through a heat advisory issued…

Columnists

Writers on the Range: Wildland firefighters need our support

At any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wildfires were blazing in the United…

Editorials

Voice of the Chieftain: Wallowa rebounds from ’14 minutes of chaos’

Unless you were part of it — unless you heard the sound of the storm, witnessed its power…

Columnists

Other Views: We back small farms, but are wary of ‘Big Ag’

Disputes over farming of any kind are likely to involve some version of “Big Ag” versus small family…

Columnists

Roger Hockett: Pure chance averts a tragedy

In my youth there were many tragedies that occurred in Wallowa County, somewhat surprising for an isolated, sparsely…

Columnists

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…

Columnists

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…

Editorials

Voice of the Chieftain: Of housing and a horrific hailstorm

A new report examining the housing shortage in Oregon’s Grant County contains much that will sound familiar to…

Letters to Editor

Letter: This year at CJD, we did better

Last year I wrote a letter to the editor in the Chieftain suggesting that we could do a…

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