OSU Braces for International Enrollment Drop
OSU is currently home to about 1,900 international students, down from 2,400 in recent years. Ahead of the...
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Reader View: What We Lack is Housing, and Each Other
A response to Curtis Wright’s “Our ’10-Year Plan to End Homelessness’ Is Old Enough to Vote” I read...
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Sen. Merkley was a Pentagon Nuclear Weapons Analyst, Here’s What he Thinks of Trump’s Saudi Nuke Deal
The Trump administration has submitted a U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation proposal to Congress, and it turns out that...
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Ticket Alert: Naughty but Nerdy, It’s Teacher Comedy at The Majestic, Sept. 19
It makes sense that some of our best local comedians are also teachers – the profession definitely requires...
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Corvallis Calendar: Friday to Friday, 09/4-09/11
Friday, Sept 4 CALYX Inc: A Herstory of Radical Resilience. Corvallis Museum, 411 SW 2nd St, Corvallis. 10 am...
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City of Corvallis Workers Take Another Big Step Toward Striking, Formally Declare an Impasse
Last week, workers for the City of Corvallis approved striking. Yesterday morning, union leaders took the next step...
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By the Numbers, Immigration Arrests in Oregon Soar Under Trump
Federal immigration agents have arrested more than 700 people in Oregon this year as of early August, according...
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DEQ Settles with Railroad Over Marys River Bridge Collapse, Fertilizer Spill
Portland & Western Railroad has paid $62,400 to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to settle up over...
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No Longer Lagging, Oregon’s Economic Growth is Catching Up with the Nation’s
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, economic growth in Oregon has underperformed the nation’s. Now, the gap between the two...
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City Employees Approve Strike, City Officials Essentially Silent
On Friday, Aug. 28, the union representing about 70% of Corvallis’ city employees voted to authorize a strike....
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Nope, Oregon Won’t Investigate these Six Reports of Alleged Federal Misconduct Against Protesters
Oregon’s attorney general has closed the door on several potential criminal investigations into federal agents that were spurred...
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OSU Touts New Parking Tools for Fall
Let’s talk about getting to campus. Not the glamorous kind of transportation story — no ribbon-cuttings, no mayors...
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Commentary: Our “10-Year Plan to End Homelessness” Is Old Enough to Vote, Here’s How we Can do Better
In 2007, the City of Corvallis and Benton County set out to write a “10-year plan to end...
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Corvallis-to-the-Sea Hiking Trail Fully Reopens, It’s the Whole 60 Miles
The whole Corvallis-to-the-Sea, or C2C, trail has now officially reopened. Unofficially, hikers had options that weren’t fun before...
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Corvallis’ 2026 Mayor and Council Candidates… and the Budding Sportswriter
Let’s talk about competition. Real competition. Not the manufactured, will-they-make-the-play-in kind you get from a Tuesday night in...
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Samaritan Takeover by Larger System Mostly Approved, Two Smaller Hurdles Remain
Marty Cahill has spent the better part of two years talking about survival — the delicate, unglamorous math...
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US Justice Department Sues Oregon over In-state Tuition for Immigrants
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington over laws that allow immigrants in the country...
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Kotek and Drazan and Their Complicated Histories With Data Centers
For months, Oregon’s incumbent Gov. Tina Kotek and her Republican challenger, State Sen. Christine Drazan, of Canby, have...
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