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Grant PUD commissioners’ statement on Route 4b Transmission Line protest

Grant County PUD was at the center of a recent article in The Capital Press. Many of the ...

Columns

Powerline wildfires: Logging and reforestation solutions

My name is Russ Sapp, and I have been a Board Member of Consumer’s Power, Inc. (CPI) for ...

Editorials

Washington ag interests rightly suspicious of emissions bill

Critics fear that it’s a prelude to taxation. Once the government starts measuring something, it inevitably follows that ...

Editorials

It’s time for Congress to fix the immigration laws

President Trump’s promise to deport all illegal immigrants and his executive order starting that work puts producers and ...

Columns

Commentary: The government should try to do a few things well in 2025

This week marks the inauguration of President Trump and the opening of the Oregon legislative session. With new ...

Editorials

Editorial: Vilsack served American agriculture well at USDA

We’ve always thought that outgoing Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was the rare presidential appointee who put the ...

Editorials

Editorial: A lone justice tears at Corporate Transparency Act

The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted a nationwide injunction imposed by a Texas judge last month barring the ...

Editorials

Editorial: OT reform would benefit workers as much as farmers

Do gooders in Salem and Olympia thought they were helping farmworkers when they passed legislation to phase out ...

Editorials

Editorial: Washington’s carbon limits won’t help climate

Those opposed to green schemes that line some pockets and pick other pockets are called “climate deniers” by ...

Columns

Commentary: Export impact on the rise

Growing up on a farm in Northeast Iowa taught me the values of resilience and innovation—qualities that have ...

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