A carnival in Portland. A shutdown in Washington. A deal with universities. A rival to Wikipedia. A way to sell local news. And a new Taylor Swift album. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
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Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 13-14
Where do we go after Charlie Kirk’s murder? Spencer Cox’s warning. Graphic images on the internet. Corvallis schools. Doors flying off jetliners. Election season begins. Hard times for dictionaries. And your dog might need more privacy. It’s a fairly somber edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 9-10
Get your hydration ready. Homelessness numbers on the rise. Misinformation and that wildfire map. Open meeting confusion. Wyden’s plans. Health care disarray. Trump’s fight against the Sullivan ruling. The big meteor show. Purpose anxiety. Inside a “Naked Gun” joke. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 2-3
Doctors on the move. Trump’s economy. Federal dollars in rural Oregon. A split over Gaza. A public broadcasting watershed. Alden Global stumbles. A new “Media Capitulation Index.” And a fish is linked to a brush fire. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 26-27
Everything we know about Sacagawea could be wrong. Also, heat depression. Summer reading. Birth and death. Newspaper woes. Cliff Bentz and Medicaid. Homeless shelters. Astronomer’s new spokesperson. And the “In a Landscape” pianist. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 19-20
Canceling Colbert. MAGA wants to know about the Epstein files. Kristof on an Oregon deportation. OSU cuts DEI programs. Harvard’s battle to save higher education. Churches and politics. Privacy, Coldplay and that Jumbotron. And afternoon snacks. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for July 12-13
It’s a hot weekend, so stay hydrated. Country Fair exposure. A target on the Andrews forest. Transgender trends. A short war against plastic. Endangered local journalists. Christians unite against the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” And abandoning space. It’s all in the new edition of the Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for June 28-29
The Legislature wraps up, maybe. The big and the beautiful and Congress. Your Supreme Court in action. Wildfire smoke in your lungs. Naming heat waves. The Pac-12 Conference. Summer movie projects. Oregon newspapers. And spectacular images from space. It’s a busy week for Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for June 14-15
A newsy weekend, with protests and parades — and flags. How a shattered media landscape leads to a distortion of reality. Our reluctance to pay for local news. And with summer right around the corner, shouldn’t we be able to define yacht rock? Even by Weekend Reader standards, this edition is a weird one.