Latest Opinion Highlight

Columnists

Commentary: The road to transportation funding is long

The debate over paying for transportation needs in Oregon may have paused with the end of the legislative…

Business

Opinion: Bans on rent-pricing algorithms could backfire, lead to higher prices

The Pacific Northwest boasts natural splendors and world-class companies from Amazon and Microsoft to Nike and Columbia Sportswear.…

Columnists

Opinion: A half bet at the Keno Dam

Last August, Northwest salmon caught a break when four dams on the Klamath River, which flows from mountain…

Business

Opinion: The bottle bill, an Oregon gem

Oregon’s bottle bill, established in 1971 as the first in the U.S and the second worldwide, leads the…

Business

Opinion: Oregon should bypass California’s stalled Clean Trucks program and steer its own into the fast lane

California has set ambitious goals for EV truck adoption with its Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which imposes steeply…

Opinion

Commentary: Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?

Possibly no place in Oregon has a more rugged, individualistic, even anti-governmental attitude than Burns, a small city…

Columnists

Too much communication: For cell phones in schools, simpler may be better

What do you do with legislation that cuts into the middle of how Oregonians live their lives, when…