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Opinion: The bottle bill, an Oregon gem

Oregon’s bottle bill, established in 1971 as the first in the U.S and the second worldwide, leads the ...

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Readers Respond: Oregon Health Plan changes are ‘inhumane, terrifying, potential disaster’

Your Oregon News asked readers where they stand on proposed changes to the Oregon Health Plan, or Medicaid. ...

Letters To The Editor

OPINION: Pass Senate Bill 125 to protect Oregon’s medical practices

Since its implementation in 2019, the Corporate Activity Tax has squeezed independent health care providers, and Oregon patients ...

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RURAL REFLECTIONS: Moving forward backward

Did you ever walk backwards out of a room when you happened upon an uncomfortable situation? I know ...

Opinion

Commentary: Data centers and their neighbors

Oregon has a big and (relatively) new kind of business it doesn’t really know how to deal with. ...

Local News

TVWD TALKS: How you can take control of your water bills this summer

Every September and October, my phone starts ringing with the same concern: “There’s no way we used that ...

Letters To The Editor

OPINION: Democrats: Oppose federal Fix Our Forests Act

The federal Fix Our Forests Act is disastrous. It prioritizes logging over proven community wildfire protections like defensible ...

College

Evanson: Oregon House Bill 3694 is just a symptom of a much bigger NCAA problem

House Bill 3694 is back in the news. But while the state has again approved the newly amended ...

Opinion

Capital Chatter: Legislature heading toward a bumpy ending

Rep. Mark Owens uttered a dire prediction as the 2025 Oregon Legislature entered its final four weeks. “I’m ...

Opinion

OPINION: A lesson learned at the gas pump

About 2 miles later, all of the warning lights flashed on my dashboard. I moved the car to ...

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