Opinion
Good, early signs from the Deschutes County deflection program
Deschutes County deflection program has early success with drug users
Editorials
Editorial: The seeming demise of Oregon’s fire map tax
The state wildfire hazard map is dead or headed for a reckoning. We don’t know that for sure, ...
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Editorial: Mosaic Community Health needs to be able to grow with the community
Luz got medical help with her pregnancy when she had no medical insurance. Brad received needed surgery on ...
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Editorial: State rules for defensible space are coming and seem based on common sense
Embers from a wildfire can travel for miles on the wind, land in some lovely, landscaped bark dust ...
Editorials
Editorial: Park district is right to look again at the idea of a new footbridge
The renewed debate over a new footbridge crossing the Deschutes River just south of Bend feels like a ...
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Editorial: Should credit scores, gender and marital status play a role in car insurance?
Does bad credit make you a bad driver? How about your gender? Marital status? Insurance companies use those ...
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Editorial: Levy’s bill may help some homeowners with insurance
For decades, Oregon had only a few hundred million in insurance losses by the decade for all sorts ...
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Editorial: Oregon legislators may boost benefits for some state employees
If you get confused about Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System — known as PERS — you are not ...
Editorials
Editorial: Should Bend charge a green fee on some new construction?
Bend may institute a new fee to help the city achieve more climate goals. Increasing incentives for people ...
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Editorial: Does the state need a mandated percentage of public defenders employed by the state?
Oregon has a public defender problem. It isn’t providing a lawyer to everyone who is entitled to one. ...
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