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Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 8-9
A father detained by ICE. Paying for roads. Parties get the boot. Weakening environmental laws. Grokipedia takes a break. Sunsets. Douthat’s new job. Lee Enterprises, in the black. More about college athletics (I’m sorry). Color drains from our lives. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 1-2
August begins. Wildfire smoke. Fauci’s diary. Corvallis politics. Domestic violence victims in court. Unionized OSU basketball. Space junk comes back to Earth. Icebreakers! Another way to look at news deserts. Glen Hansard. And monarchs (the butterflies) are back. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 25-26
A shakeup at the Gazette-Times. The decline of editorial pages. A potential shakeup at the City Council. Fewer choices are better. AI jailbreaks. A road trip to the coast. A wreck of a dinner. Gathering Together Farm. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 18-19
No more reading, but punctuation endures. Wildfire smoke. Hellscapes. Earthquakes. Lionel Messi. Coffin Butte. The war on elections. The secret agenda when cats groom each other. “The Odyssey.” It’s all in an uplifting edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 11-12
Postal Service vs. voting. Trump vs. voting. Trump’s generals. Subpoenas for the Times. FOI delays. Housing fight in West Linn. Local news – who needs it? Mick Jagger, “Moana” and high school journalists. It’s all in a packed edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 4-5
Meet the new boss, G-T readers. What to do with the courthouse? Betting on wildfires. In search of America, on screen and worldwide. The Pac-12 is back. A ballot for a time capsule. And so much more in the Independence Day edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for June 27-28
The Reflecting Pool as metaphor. The Great American State Fair flops. George Washington’s teeth. Parasites, from ticks to lamprey. Trump’s war on journalists. OSU’s AD reflects. Slap another manatee steak on the grill. And Mel Brooks at 100. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for June 20-21
Here comes summer. New taxes for Corvallis? A win for science. Immigration detentions rise. Vancouver’s housing solution. The Constitution and fried apple pie. Obama’s tan suit. Soccer! And the Reflecting Pool deals with “Skinny Dead Mouse.” It;’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for June 13-14
So long, OSU robots. Hello again, psilocybin — maybe. You’ll pay EV taxes, but not Amazon. Congratulations, Elon, on that first trillion. Happy birthday, Mr. President! Old Oregon. And eaglets falling to the ground. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
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