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PORTLAND — Balloons capture the imagination with their aspirational upward drift. But their lighter-than-air quality can get out of hand, literally, and have unintended consequences for the power grid
SALEM — With Republicans declaring “conspiracy,” a Senate committee on Thursday moved a signature climate change bill a step closer to passage.
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SALEM — If Thursday morning’s Timber Unity rally to protest proposed cap-and-trade carbon and greenhouse emissions legislation could be summed up in a single world, it would have to be “L-O-U-D!”
SALEM — If Thursday morning’s Timber Unity rally to protest proposed cap-and-trade carbon and greenhouse emissions legislation could be summed up in a single world, it would have to be “L-O-U-D!”
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SALEM — Drastically improving the way Oregon fights wildfire could be facing more of an uphill political battle than lawmakers previously expected.
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SALEM — A hay farmer, a high school student and a physicist each strode up to a modest hearing-room table Tuesday evening to give lawmakers a piece of their mind.
SALEM — A hay farmer, a high school student and a physicist each strode up to a modest hearing-room table Tuesday evening to give lawmakers a piece of their mind.
SALEM — A hay farmer, a high school student and a physicist each strode up to a modest hearing-room table Tuesday evening to give lawmakers a piece of their mind.