Opinion

Editorial: The best thing the sheriff can do for the sheriff’s office

“Our culture (in the sheriff’s office) is very toxic. We have had a series of issues over the…

Opinion

Editorial: Felons may get less supervision in Deschutes County

One of the ways Deschutes County may suffer in the new state budget is in parole and probation.…

Opinion

Editorial: Fix Our Forests Act needs some fixing

Walk into the heart of the Deschutes National Forest in the summer and usually you can feel it…

Opinion

Editorial: Charging for the bus and requiring bus passes come with tradeoffs

The plans to require people throughout the bus system to have a pass to ride the bus and…

Editorials

Editorial: Traffic report: more congestion ahead for Oregon

Oregon’s official statewide congestion report released last month has some preaching in it, some teaching in it and…

Opinion

Editorial: Allow a Deschutes Basin water bank

It looks like the Legislature may grant permission for a water bank to be set up in Deschutes…

Opinion

Editorial: The Legislature should go on a bill diet

We spent some time on Sunday with the 300 bills that Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, submitted to the…

Editorials

Editorial | David vs. Goliath: Oregon bill offers lifeline for Journalism — and Democracy

This editorial is being jointly-published by more than 50 Oregon newspapers and supported by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers…

Opinion

Editorial: Uncertainty thrives in Oregon air quality program

Sometimes, Oregon government does not work right. The best of policy intentions brawls with reality and the problem…

Editorials

Other views: Building boom on federal land might just work

Amid the relentless chaos in Washington — tariffs, trade war, terminally rising deficits — at least one sensible…

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