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Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 31-Nov. 1
Time to swtich clocks. UO’s engineering college. Trump’s war on science. A modest bowl-game suggestion. An election is coming up, but first, a costume suggestion. It’s the Halloween edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 24-25
Good news about Beavers, arctic foxes and puppies. Warning signs about elections. An update about that mailbox carnage. Bad news about newspapers. Did I mention this edition of the Weekend Reader features puppies?
Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 17-18
A school shooting just over the mountains. Also this week: So long, Katie Zacharia. Keeping tabs on your ballot. U2 at 50. “Rebecca” with cats. Autumn colors in America. A weird thing happens to a neighborhood mailbox. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 10-11
The Beavers get national love. The time change looms. Corvallis budget woes. Three questions about politics that may never be answered. Exercises for breaking the doomscrolling “creep.” And the Cherry Sisters leave their mark on libel law. It’s a new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 3-4
Gubernatorial clash. Affordable housing cash. Predicting election mischief. Colleges, men and rape. Goodbye, hemp. Good news and bad about journalism. And news you can use — including why now is a great time to get your flu shot. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 26-27
AI, engineers, and a billion-dollar donation. The five freedoms in the First Amendment. More on McClatchy’s layoffs. The best TV of the century, and what those shows say about us. Defining America through song. It’s all in a wide-ranging edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 19-20
Summer ends. Fall looms. Transportation news, from bikes to trains. A “high-IQ” take on AI. New cats. “An infinite sea of rats.” Invader crabs! Trump vs. the press. A little less doom and gloom in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 12-13
Election mischief. Who’s worried about AI? “The Simpsons” states the obvious. Corvallis grapples with homelessness, again. A hotter planet. A climate website, and a sure thing. Trump’s $5K offer. New arcade games for the White House. Tracy Daugherty’s new book. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 5-7
In which Your Weekend Reader makes a somewhat successful attempt to pivot away from doomscrolling — unless you’re the road runner. Also: Better balance. in Eugene. Meditation side effects. “Lake America” flops. “Build the Wall” misses the point of “Tetris.” And social media on film.
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