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Ukraine will enter into peace talks with President Putin as long as the U.S. and Europe give “more security guarantees” not to “abandon” the country in future, its President says. President Volodymyr Zelensky told an interviewer he would agree to sit down to “any form of discussion” with Russia as long as his international partners first guaranteed their long-term support to deter future Russian aggression. This would be essential to prevent the Ukraine war simply becoming a frozen conflict that Russia could re-start when convenient to Moscow in the future, as it had been between 2014-2022, he said. Speaking to...

Congratulations, Multnomah county [Oregon] voters…you’ve just voted for lying and ineptitude on the part of your politicians by supporting tax hike measure 26-48. A majority of you believed the school and jail doom forecasted by your elected leaders if you didn’t approve this hastily cobbled together measure that doesn’t even spell out how or who will collect your dollars. Or how they will be spent. I guess a voting majority sees no need to improve operations, create efficient systems, reform administrative spending, perform audits and become accountable to taxpayers. As reader Karen Kellogg wrote to the Portland Tribune, “(the) yes...