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It’s budget season in Washington, D.C. and that usually means some amount of drama. While the season is still relatively young, already the House Appropriations Committee may soon consider a draft bill that would call for the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting.
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The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.
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The American right wing is fond of talking about "the deep state" of late. Each side has its boogeymen and suspected conspirators, like the way the left…
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The world is full of populations of people who wish or demand that they had their own countries. Think Taiwan, Tibet, and Crimea, for starters. But there…
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Do you look around before you speak your mind? Are you concerned by what other people will think about what YOU think? You're not alone in a country as…
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Race loomed large in the recent election. One commentator referred to the election of Donald Trump as a "whitelash." Exit polls indicate the story is more…
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Thanksgiving will be the first time many Oregonians break bread together post presidential election. Will the time-honored rule of “no politics at the…
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It can be mighty hard to remember that there is more on the ballot than the race for president, MUCH more. And what happens at the top of the ticket can…
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Most of Oregon's people live in the Willamette Valley. So that's where many of the state's elected leaders come from. But Oregon has many people living…
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It will be Ashland's former mayor versus the Rogue Valley Transportation District's board chair in a special November election for Oregon Senate District…
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Jackson County Democrats picked Tonia Moro to run for Oregon State Senate in a special convention Friday night (August 19).She will run for the Senate…
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The sudden death of State Senator Alan Bates (D-Medford) created a vacancy and an election in Oregon Senate District 3.Twelve Democrats have expressed a…
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You frequently hear people refer to the United States as an "experiment" in its approach to liberty. Well, experiments fail. And that is the concern of…
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We hop into the time machine for this hour, revisiting an early 2014 interview with Randy Shaw about his book The Activist's Handbook. The more recent…