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OUR VIEW: Commissioner Roberts needs to stick to facts

Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Roberts owes a lot of firefighters an apology — thousands of them, in fact…

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OUR VIEW: Free our hands, and hour hands, from March Madness

It’s that time of year again. The weekend when the powerful profiteers behind Big Clock force us to…

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OUR VIEW: Got ‘milk’? Dairy label bill seems like udder nonsense

Describe the taste of “milk”? What used to be an absolute — milk tastes like milk, just as…

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OUR VIEW: Moving forward, and backward, on homelessness

We’d prefer our big problems to be small ones — easily identifiable, with an equally easy set of…

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OUR VIEW: State voting bills each need careful consideration

Oregon saw a banner year for voter participation in 2022, leading the nation in terms of overall voter…

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OUR VIEW: ‘Dilbert’ decision was an easy call to make

It would have been easy for us to sidestep the controversy over “Dilbert” — the comic strip pulled…

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OUR VIEW: It’s time to choose our own lane at the gas pump

Sitting at the gas pump, watching the red digits siphon money out of our wallets, gives Oregon drivers…

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OUR VIEW: Projects provide tangible steps toward intangible goals

“Quality of life” is one of those phrases that gets thrown into conversations without a second thought, a…

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OUR VIEW: Taking another spin at Medford casino proposal

Eleven years, and an equally long succession of opposition and rejections, after the Coquille Indian Tribe first proposed…

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