Early warnings about Homeland Security. Hating AWFUL women. Election season gears up. The FBI searches a reporter’s house, takes her Garmin watch. The College Football Playoff and money. Education and transportation and the Legislature. And letter-writing is back in vogue. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
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Your Weekend Reader for Jan. 10-11
Christmas trees stand tall. Plato on trial. Mail-in voting victory. Homeless sweeps on pause. Bad AI ID. News desert in Pittsburgh? Stepping in for the government. Flu season is here. And more daylight. It’s all in the new edition of the Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Jan. 3-4
A Venezuela timeline. New leadership at Lee Enterprises. Health care cuts. A snag along the trail. Keeping resolutions. A search for a missing flight. And moping over the moon. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 27-28
It’s the last weekend of 2025. So, fun science facts from the year. Also, politics, prisoners, jazz protests, the Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center, other uses for newsprint … and Kristof tries to cheer us up. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 20-21
Health care cutbacks. Rob Reiner. Marijuana news. Trump’s haphazard ways. The solstice looms, as solstices do. A seal on the highway. When moviemakers deploy the F-word. It’s the holiday edition of Your Weekend Reader, with almost no holiday content.
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 13-14
Christmas trees. Magic mushrooms. Communities on ICE. Paying for transportation. A missing nuclear-powered device. Eastern Oregon reconsidered. Unity Shelter news. Trump notes. “Six-seven,” we hardly knew you. Gifts for the journalists in your life. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 6-7
Oregon political rematch looms. Judges and gerrymandering. Health insurance subsidies. Rage bait rules. Peace prize for Trump — no, not that one. Early line on the Oscars. “Hamnet.” News from the Pac-2. Young folks and the news. And a drunken raccoon! It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 29-30
Saving some gratitude for yourself. Brushing off the holiday tunes. Remembering Tom Stoppard. Saving our universities from AI. Appreciating those resilient salmon. Dealing with college athletics. And looking sharp at the airport. It’s all part of the Thanksgiving edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 22-23
Trump’s week. Bad news for CNN anchors. School attendance. The gold standard of science. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Elon edges out Jesus. The price for city services. Cats, eagles and windshields don’t mix. That beached whale. It’s time to light the lights on a new Weekend Reader.