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Your Weekend Reader for June 6-7
State of the states. Telling off the boss. George III. D-Day. OSU’s new AD. World Cup blahs. Sheep and God and bumper stickers. Make the choices for that big wedding. All this, and much more, in a packed edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 30-31
New battles over immigration, Medicaid and SNAP. Social sciences under fire. AI and writing. The em dash. RIP, Sonny Rollins — and indoor soccer. “Hacks,” El Nino and wisdom about happiness. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 23-24
Primary election fallout, and plenty of it. Trump’s slush fund and history disappearing before our eyes. Colbert’s return to TV. The Cannes Film Festival. Summer movies — and Wile E. Coyote’s search for justice. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 16-17
The election looms. Graduation speeches. “Masculinism.” “The Last Show with Stephen Colbert.” A cruel snow joke. Band camps are back! Soderbergh, Lennon and AI. Bloated playoffs. And cool mascots. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 9-10
Et tu, AP Stylebook? Lee Enterprises hires reporters. The Post wins a Pulitzer. A weakened CDC? The humanities win a round. Battle over “The View.” A “challenging” wildfire season begins. Paying for education. Comedy and donkeys and aliens. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 2-3
Good news for dogs and goslings. Revisiting that beached whale near Yachats. Stocking up cash for firefighting. Missing scientists. Trump’s Garden of Heroes — and his feud with ABC. Great American songwriters. And plenty of songs about May 2, It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for April 25-26
The May 19 election looms. Meet some of the also-rans. More on recall elections. A reason to care about judicial races. The fuss over “Christ is king.” Silicon Valley talks to the Vatican. Bad news about ticks. Good news about gravity. It’s in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for April 18-19
A court verdict on AI. Inside the “shadow docket.” A bitter election in my native state. GOP hopefuls here square off. Kotek dusts off the veto pen. “The Sorrow and the Pity” and our days. Free bread. Free elections? Please don’t feed the elk burritos. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for April 11-12
It’s National Poetry Month! Kotek ponders breaking out the veto pen. Celebrating local news. Bad news at the AP. Recall elections in Corvallis. Debates fall flat. Low snowpack and Coke cans. A new look at the moon. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
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