Register to Vote! It’s National Voter Registration Day!
It’s National Voter Registration Day – which is a nonpartisan civic holiday started in 2012 that is dedicated...
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Oregon GOP Candidate for Attorney General Linked to Helping African Police Snatch Children from Families
As he seeks to become Oregon’s first Republican attorney general in more than three decades, Will Lathrop has...
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Champinefu Series: Popular Corvallis Indigenous Culture Celebration Releases 2024 Schedule
Corvallis’ eighth annual celebration of the cultural practices of Western Oregon’s indigenous people, the Champinefu Series, has released...
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County Farming Grants: Non-Lethal Wildlife Mitigation Dollars Available
The Benton County Agriculture and Wildlife Protection Program, or AWPP), now in its eighth year, is a grant...
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Guest Commentary: The Case for Continuing Taxes on Tips
Sadly, bad tax policy ideas can be contagious. The latest virus sprang from the Trump presidential campaign, hopped...
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Government: City Council to Talk Trash and Taxes, Receives Houseless Camping Report, County Drops Agenda Ball, Daytime Drop-in Center to Move
Some light housekeeping before we get started – at press time, the meeting agenda for next Tuesday’s Benton...
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Emotional Testimony, Historic Ruling: Federal Judge Starts Reigning in Oregon’s Foster Care System
They were shuffled from foster home to foster home, physically abused and emotionally scarred. On Thursday, they spoke...
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An Oregon Doctor Studied America’s Prevalence of Gun Deaths: It’s the Firearms, not Mental Illness
The prevalence of firearms in the U.S. – not mental illness – is driving the surge in gun...
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Sheriff’s Office Invites Folks to get Emergency Training
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office has announced an upcoming Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training course, designed to...
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Corvallis Calendar: Friday to Friday, 9/13/24 to 9/20/24
Friday, September 13 Association of Oregon Counties District 5 Meeting. Holmes & Shipley Room, Benton County Kalapuya Bldg.,...
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Give Blood During National Preparedness Month, Here’s How in Corvallis
Why is The Advocate running another freaking story about local blood donation opportunities – singularly, it’s because summer...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Secrecy and Data Gaps Hinder Oregon’s Progress on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
Cedar Wilkie Gillette, citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation and a Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa descendant,...
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Here’s How Oregon will Spend its First $41 Million of Opioid Settlement Dollars
Oregon public health officials are mapping out plans for spending $41 million in opioid settlement funding that will...
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Oregon’s New Chief Economist Comes from Wall Street
A longtime Wall Street analyst has taken over as Oregon’s chief economist, producing the quarterly forecasts lawmakers rely...
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Corvallis Voter Files Federal Election Complaint Against GOP Congressional Candidate
A federal complaint filed Tuesday by a Corvallis voter alleges that Republican congressional candidate Monique DeSpain illegally omitted...
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Feds Grant Oregon Schools $11.5 Million to Assist State’s Beleaguered Literacy Efforts
Oregon’s highest needs schools that are focused on revamping literacy instruction and boosting student reading proficiency will get...
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Majority of Nation’s Attorneys General Join Oregon, Seek Youth Warning Labels on Social Media
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is leading a bipartisan campaign with 41 state attorneys general who are prodding...
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Free Theater Mask Making Talk, Saturday, Sept. 14
Join theatre director and craftsperson Sanaya Forbes as she walks workshop participants through the process of creating theatrical...
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