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Congress has handed Oregon lawmakers $2.6 billion to prevent cuts to services Oregonians need most and invest in pandemic recovery
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A century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the
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