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Choices we make today affect choices we’ll have tomorrow. But it’s no less true that expectations we have for tomorrow affect choices we make today.

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The past becomes present again, and we’re better for it. We see ourselves in context of who we were and where we came from. We needn’t open the gift. The gift opens us.

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Well and good. Let them vote their conscience. But it’s time we exposed those who vote no for funding measures and then complain when the dog catcher isn’t available on Sundays.

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DeFazio and Kitzhaber both seem interested in bringing big ideas — and tough choices — to Oregonians. Tom McCall, Act 2. Bradbury is likely to run a more nuts-and-bolts campaign. Kulongoski, continued.

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Health care reform must begin with something people want. Health care is important, but jobs are what people want.

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Nothing surpasses the transitions from winter to spring and from spring to summer. I’ve lived in New England, famous for its autumn leaves. But that change is for the visitors. A week later, it’s old news and here comes winter. Our seasonal shift comes slowly, in fits and starts. It’s enjoyed best by those who live here.

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Access to restrooms is a hot topic when the weather stays cold. A restroom can offer the destitute two things they most need: some rest and a room.

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The United States House of Representatives was conceived as its wooly counterpart, a band of citizen legislators who could bring “the voice of the people” to governance. We want to solve problems, but what if the problem-solvers are part of the problem?

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How many moments of silence have we shared as a nation over the last quarter century? Let’s take a moment together to whoop it up.

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Social order rests on that civic pride. Schoolchildren who learn to fear their government instead of learning how it works will have to learn later why and how to be good citizens.

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