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Your Weekend Reader for Aug. 6-7

Weird vibes in the economy. Oregon politics and highways. Meteors in the night sky. Press freedom and abortion. Honoring Vin Scully. Pickles are hot. Why doing nothing is so hard. All this and more in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for July 30-31

COVID rebounds and Paxlovid. HP furloughs. Pac-12 waiting game. Going to the candidates’ debate. Oregon’s best beaches. Covering climate change. Beyonce’s “Renaissance.” A confession about “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for July 23-24

Plans for Trump’s next administration. Dying young in America. Unsheltered people get the Eugene cold shoulder. Bad news for ash trees. Congressional fundraising. Run with Sen. Hawley. Good words for opossums. Not so much for squirrels. It’s all here in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for July 16-17

Journalism and doomscrolling. A deep dive into Oregon growth. More about this Pac-12 thing. Why everyone has COVID. Librarians under siege. A new poet laureate. Text a friend. Climate change and hats. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for July 9-10

“Servitude” in Trump’s orbit. Summer airline blues. Nuclear power’s comeback. Majestic boss gets the ax. Brainy Benton County. Much more (again) on the Pac-12. Sharp-dressed Minions fans. The James Webb Space Telescope. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for July 2-3

So much more on the Pac-12! The “city of roaches” in the news. How about that First Amendment? News about newspapers. Kate Bush’s comeback. And a provocative take on patriotism. It’s all in the Independence Day edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for June 25-26

More complaints about the weather. Inside last year’s “heat dome.” The Supreme Court makes some news. A clash over Willamette Falls. Pollution woes in West Eugene. A wayward parrot in Portland. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for June 18-19

GOP yawns at Jan. 6 panel. Schools have bad news for students with disabilities. Chickens near Scio. Unreported COVID cases swamp Oregon. Atmospheric river soaks Yellowstone. Journalists sound off. Two new movies worth your time. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.

Your Weekend Reader for June 11-12

Watergate remembered. Great journalism movies. Don’t trust that negative test. Scientists and misinformation. Japanese Breakfast. Northwest stocks tank. Guns and the State Police. Food trucks. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.