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    I was fortunate to attend an event last week at the state Capitol sponsored by Oregon Food Bank. “Food For All Oregonians” is a simple slogan to express that all people deserve to be fed and immigration status shouldn’t exclude anyone from access to life-sustaining food.

      I am opposed to an expansion of the Coffin Butte landfill. For over 50 years I relied on a big breath of sweet Soap Creek air to boost my spirits. Too often these days, my nose is assaulted by an odor like vomit and feces wafting from the dump.

        On Friday morning, March 21, Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works in Washington, D.C., spoke at an online meeting of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action in Seattle. Alex confirmed for us that co-Presidents Trump and Musk and Republican leaders in Congress have dec…

        While seeking another stay in the White House, Donald Trump did what most politicians do: promised the moon to those who might help him get elected. Trump also assured us that promises made would be promises kept. But as former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo is famously quoted, “You campaign in poetry. Some of the promises called for unbelievably dramatic outcomes. You govern in prose.”

        Willie Dickerson ("Speak up: Together we can turn this around," March 20), like seemingly so many others, blindly accepts that government social welfare programs are inherently good, absolutely necessary, and invariably effective. Nothing could be more wrong.

        I remember Chip. He would be about 40 years old now. He was the first child I worked with who had autism. I remember Chrystal. She was the first child in a preschool setting I encountered who had a feeding tube.

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