Nigel Duara

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Rick Steves, one of the country's most visible advocates of marijuana legalization, speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Steves is in the midst of a 10-city tour to stump for legal pot in Oregon. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Pot advocate says travels show legalization works

Nigel Duara · October 7, 2014 11:27 pm

Corps halts review of Oregon coal export terminal

Nigel Duara · September 15, 2014 10:29 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised his Republican counterpart,Â Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, for supporting at least a one-year extension for the incentives, which are given to wind, biomass, geothermal and other energy sources. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sen. Ron Wyden calls for surveillance policy shift

Nigel Duara · August 15, 2014 9:41 pm

FILE - This Oct. 24, 2006 file photo shows the Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River in Pasco, Wash. For the first time in its history, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have to disclose the amount of pollutants its dams are sending into waterways in a groundbreaking legal settlement that could have broad implications for the Corps' hundreds of dams nationwide. The Corps announced in a settlement on Monday, Aug. 4, 2014, that it will immediately notify the conservation group that filed the lawsuit of any oil spills among its eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Oregon and Washington. (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston,File)

Historic deal for Corps dam pollution

Nigel Duara · August 5, 2014 2:15 am

FILE - A Nov. 27, 2010, file photo provided by the Multnomah County, Ore., Sheriff's Office, shows Mohamed Mohamud. A federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government's secret, warrantless bulk phone and email data collection in denying an Oregon man's motion to dismiss his terrorism conviction. U.S. District Court Judge Garr King on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, upheld Mohamed Mohamud's conviction on terrorism charges. (AP Photo/Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office, File)

Judge: Warrantless bulk surveillance is legal

Nigel Duara · June 25, 2014 3:03 am

FILE - This May 11, 2012 file photo, Portland Imam Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye, who is one of 15 men who say their rights were violated because they are on the U.S. government's no-fly list, leaves the United Sates Court of Appeals following oral arguments on the ACLU No Fly List challenge, in Portland, Ore. A federal judge has ruled Tuesday, June 24, 2014, that the U.S. government violated the rights of 13 people on its no-fly list by depriving them of their constitutional right to travel, and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Judge: No-fly list violates constitutional rights

Nigel Duara · June 25, 2014 12:27 am

Campaign to turn away same-sex couples suspended

Nigel Duara · May 10, 2014 12:38 am

FILE - Angry over revelations of National Security Agency surveillance and frustrated with what they consider outdated digital privacy laws, state lawmakers around the nation are proposing bills to curtail the powers of law enforcement to monitor and track citizens. Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis poses for a photo in Salem Ore., in this Oct. 24, 2007 file photo. Marquis said the legislators' concerns are misplaced. He said state agencies aren't collecting the kind of metadata the NSA collects and bills curtailing the ability of local authorities to gather intelligence could do more harm than good. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

States look to rein in government surveillance

Nigel Duara · February 5, 2014 9:25 am

Police secure the scene of a shooting at a business park in the Fruit Valley neighborhood of Vancouver, Wash. on Monday Feb. 3, 2014. Police say at least one person was shot just before noon Monday at a Benjamin Moore Paint store in the area. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Zachary Kaufma)

Wash. paint store driver kills manager, self

Nigel Duara · February 4, 2014 3:02 am

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Appeals court rules against officer’s First Amendment claim

Nigel Duara · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

Oregonian newspaper reduces home-delivery schedule

Nigel Duara · June 21, 2013 12:38 am

Monsanto: Modified wheat ‘isolated occurrence’

Nigel Duara · June 5, 2013 9:24 pm