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Book reviews: The best nonfiction books of 2024

The past year was a marvelous one for those who read serious nonfiction. As has been my tradition,…

Editorials

Editorial: Send us your New Year’s resolutions or your story about one you have made in the past

The almost inescapable dream is that the new year will be better than the old. It makes sense.…

Editorials

Editorial: Hopes, wishes and foolish prognostications for 2025

We have some hopes, wishes and some likely foolish prognostications for 2025. For incoming Deschutes County Sheriff Kent…

Columnists

Guest column: I learned from the best: Jimmy Carter

America and the world lost a great man. I was honored to meet and speak with former President…

Letters To Editor

Letters to the editor: Invest in higher ed; Solutions and public defense crisis; Tinted windows

Oregon should invest in higher ed As the president of the Associated Students of OSU-Cascades, affordability and access…

Editorials

Editorial: Should Bend add e-scooters to its e-bike bike share program? Or stay scooter shy?

For scooter despisers, e-scooters violate the sanctity of the sidewalk. Scooters are just a new thing to be…

Editorials

Editorial: How much should revenue from alcohol fuel Oregon government?

One number that gets thrown around in the debate about Oregon’s alcohol treatment and taxation of alcohol is:…

Editorials

Editorial: More waiting for protection for the Owyhee

There’s more waiting to see if the stunning Owyhee Canyonlands in Eastern Oregon will ever be granted federal…

Editorials

Editorial: Bend’s plan for photo traffic enforcement in 2025

Speed through an intersection or run a red light in Bend and there could be a new way…

Editorials

Editorial: Power rates keep climbing for customers

Pacific Power set a record from January to October of cutting off power to more than 20,000 households…

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