Editorials
Our view: Legislators make key decisions behind closed doors
We long for a journey to a smoke-filled room. Not an actual smoke-filled room, but the secret meetings ...
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Our view: Roadside shrines a sad reminder to drive carefully
You see them along every highway in America, the sad sweet shrines to lives lost on the road. ...
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Our view: Habitat for Humanity marks important milestone
Good news stories can be hard to come by, but the tale of a local organization that stepped ...
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Our view: New laws that might make for a better 2024
More police officers and firefighters die by suicide than on the job. The Oregon Legislature tried to do ...
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Our view: We should find out why Oregon’s population declined
Oregon has been whittled down, perhaps not withered. Shouldn’t we find out why? Oregon’s population declined for the ...
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Our view: ODFW might need to be more aggressive in dealing with wolves
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission’s Dec. 14 conclusion that it wasn’t necessary to change the state’s wolf ...
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Our view: Oregon may switch to more value-based health care payments
Most people have two relatively medically expensive times of their lives — when they are very young and ...
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Our view: Oregon needs to do more to combat domestic violence
More often than not it seems we are a society fixated on the most recent news bite or ...
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Our view: The Legislature could fix this opioid treatment problem
Delay treatment for a person addicted to fentanyl or other opioid and that person may die. And Oregon ...
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Our view: Want to speed up freeway travel? Slow down
The sequence of events was depressing in its predictability. Snow begins to fall. Snow begins to stick on ...