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Coast Chronicles: It is too soon or too late for summer reading?

I know we’ve passed the Summer Solstice—days start getting shorter from here on out. So it’s time, if…

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Coast Chronicles: Summer Daze

Sizzling Our hot temps, and even hotter days in Seattle, have announced full-throatedly and to all — summer…

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Guest Column: Scientific advances are vital to finding disease cures

I am writing as part of the McClintock Letters initiative, which aims to publish over 1,000 op-eds about…

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Coast Chronicles: The Game of Shrooms

A couple weeks ago I got a note from Shelly Hedges, artist and ceramicist, about a project she…

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Editor’s Notebook: Maps transport us to far-off places and times

It’s dumb to make gender-based generalizations and obviously silly to say boys don’t cry or only girls like…

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Elementary, my dear… The fungus among us…

The horror of fungus is that you never know when or where it will erupt. Its spores are…

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Animal Shelter Report: Meet Cayenne: Sweetheart with a spicy name!

Cayenne is a beautiful girl whose red coat is as warm and inviting as her personality. At 7…

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Coast Chronicles: Homage to Astoria II: The River Walk

You are here I’m continuing my thinking about our “sister city” across the river, Astoria, as well as…

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Guest column: Glad misguided internet policy failed

As both a small business owner and a mom who sits on a school board, I have a…

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Editor’s Notebook: Salmon prices reach head-exploding heights

In the running for most-shocking photo of the week, on May 18 one of my fellow members of…

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