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Guest Column: We need managed camps on public land for homeless

Regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, one necessary response to the…

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Commentary: Rules for reading from someone who does it for a living

How do you read a book? As someone who has been lucky enough to earn his living in…

Editorials

Editorial: What’s going wrong at the Deschutes County Courthouse

Things go wrong when a defendant does not have an attorney. It happened Tuesday morning at the Deschutes…

Editorials

Editorial: Oregon practice of allowing noncompete clauses is basically dead

Oregon has allowed employers to put noncompete clauses in employment contracts. But it is about to change. A…

Editorials

Editorial: Is Bend too expensive for affordable housing?

Bend may not qualify for a state program to help cities with affordable housing, because Bend has become…

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Editorial: Bend pushes ahead on promoting electrification

When the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Berkeley, California’s gas piping ban was preempted by…

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Guest Column: Progressives are not advocating the right policies to help with racism

It is hard to keep up when words are re-defined. Consider the word Woke. Capitalizing the word announces…

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Commentary: How stupid was what OpenAI did to Scarlett Johansson?

In September, OpenAI said a new talking version of its ChatGPT assistant that sounded like Scarlett Johansson wasn’t…

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Editorial: When should Oregon be able to block medical mergers?

The Hospital Association of Oregon lost in court last week in its attempt to block an Oregon law…

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Editorial: Oregon’s health care system is out of balance

Oregon hospitals face a structural imbalance. It’s like ticking through a long list of things that could go…

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