Update: Washington State University head football coach Nick Rolovich, who's mentionedin an item below, was fired on Monday, along with four of his assistants, for refusing to get a COVID...
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Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 9-10
Let's start with a deep dive into the state of local newspapers today. I promise I have some fun reads in store this weekend, but this isn't one of them: Elaine Godfrey, a staff writer at The...
Your Weekend Reader for Oct. 2-3
I'm posting this edition of Your Weekend Reader earlier than usual so that you have a few hours to bid on some of the Duck Stamp paintings that "Last Week Tonight" entered into the annual U.S. Fish...
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 25-26
Wait: This is the last weekend of September? How did that happen? It's an eternal question, that "How did that happen?" I'm not sure there's always a good answer. But, as you ponder it, you could...
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 18-19
Let's start this edition of Your Weekend Reader (I'm still waiting for the lawsuit from the Weekly Reader folks to roll in, but in the meantime, I like that title) the same way that we started last...
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 11-12
So, um, I got distracted this weekend, which explains a little bit why this edition of the Weekend Reader is being posted late on Sunday afternoon. My apologies, although I have a modicum of an...
Your Weekend Reader for Sept. 4-6
It's the Labor Day weekend, so you have an additional day to check out the cornucopia of curated material that I have carefully tracked down and assembled for your reading pleasure. (I sound like...
Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 28-29
It's the last weekend of August. Where HAS this summer gone? Oh, that's right -- delta came and snatched il away. The emergence of the delta variant of the coronavirus has put a big damper on this...
Your weekend reader for Aug. 21-22
Educators under siege, new developments on the coronavirus, "Jeopardy!" in crisis and the official opening of the Corvallis to the Sea Trail: They're all part of your weekend reader. Melissa Goff,...