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Column: The gold star of our block
Everyone in my block of downtown Redmond knew everything about Mary Peterson, and Mary Peterson knew everything about ...
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Too much communication: For cell phones in schools, simpler may be better
What do you do with legislation that cuts into the middle of how Oregonians live their lives, when ...
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, ...
Editorials
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Editorial: Where we are and where we need to be on homelessness in Central Oregon
The easiest thing to do when you see a person sleeping beneath a bridge or struggling against this ...
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Editorial: The penny may not be saved but earned its end
Pity the penny. The sense is that it may make no more sense for the cent. A government ...
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Editorial: Should hens and bees get to move into HOA neighborhoods?
Bees buzzing, hens clucking and the sounds of gardening could soon be coming to neighborhoods governed by homeowners ...
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