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COMMENTARY | We won't go back. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is expanding health care despite threats to Roe v. Wade.

Anne Udall

March 6, 2020

Oregon author Connie King Leonard’s YA novel draws from her own experience as a teacher with homeless students

Pat Zimmer

February 28, 2020

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Voters need to turn out in droves to pass this homeless-services measure

Kaia Sand

February 28, 2020

COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon

February 21, 2020

A proposed ballot measure to impose a progressive tax on our region's highest earners would help level the playing field

February 21, 2020

COMMENTARY | As the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, America’s military must be reined in

February 14, 2020

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Creativity and resourcefulness are essential for people on the streets, but so are grand solutions from the public sector

Kaia Sand

February 14, 2020

COMMENTARY | Today, it’s Trump’s ban on immigrants who need assistance, but medical injustice for people of color has roots 155 years deep

Helen Hill

February 7, 2020

DIRECTOR’S DESK | It was a meaningful conversation, touching on struggle, empathy and understanding

Kaia Sand

January 31, 2020

A statewide state of emergency could lead to real solutions without fear standing in the way

January 24, 2020