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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Noncents
The plug on the bank was removed. Coins were scattered across the floor. Pennies. They were saved so ...
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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Bridges make traveling, life easier
View from a bridge. “Bridge over troubled water”. Mending bridges. Bridging the gap. From our house on Neff ...
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OPINION: When did the U.S. become a ‘them’?
What is happening to public life in the United States? Why are higher education, libraries, local museums and ...
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Opinion: Oregon should bypass California’s stalled Clean Trucks program and steer its own into the fast lane
California has set ambitious goals for EV truck adoption with its Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which imposes steeply ...
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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Field of vision
Field of vision. That area that you see when your eyes are looking straight ahead. What is your ...
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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Belly up to the tie bar
Coffee in hand. Fire in the fireplace. Rainy day. My calm morning ritual suddenly jarring me more awake ...
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Opinion: Oregon bill opens discussion about paying for journalism
No easy or obvious solution will resolve one of the top and less-acknowledged crises in America, the collapse ...
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Commentary: More Oregonians are working multiple jobs, showing need for a stronger tax credit for workers
One of the best investments the Oregon legislature can make this session is to renew and expand the ...
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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Crust of the matter
My teeth nibble at the edges of my waffle. From my childhood on, I have understood that the ...
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Commentary: Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?
Possibly no place in Oregon has a more rugged, individualistic, even anti-governmental attitude than Burns, a small city ...