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Covers:  Government, social issues and general news and features with extensive experience in editorial and column writing.
Doesn't Cover: There is nothing I do not cover.
Pacific Northwest newspaper reporter and editor with more than 40 years of experience.

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Tom Henderson’s Biography

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I am an award-winning reporter and editor with digital and print experience..

Tom Henderson’s Journalist Portfolio

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Homeless residents, advocates in Salem area take issue with government response

Homeless residents, advocates in Salem area take issue with government response

Federal dollars might - someday - be directed toward nonprofits in the Mid-Willamette Valley to help people e…

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Up against polarization and COVID-19, McMinnville homeless-service providers find a way

Up against polarization and COVID-19, McMinnville homeless-service providers find a way

McMINNVILLE - When McMinnville's library closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, people experiencing …

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Fields of fear: Oregon farmworkers lack safety net as pandemic threatens jobs, health

Fields of fear: Oregon farmworkers lack safety net as pandemic threatens jobs, health

Beatriz Tapia fears tomorrow. So do billions of other people in a world caught in the grip of a deadly pandem…

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Housing-insecure Oregonians left in the lurch, eager for Legislature to convene

Housing-insecure Oregonians left in the lurch, eager for Legislature to convene

Morgan Florea doesn't have to worry for three months about being evicted from her Portland apartment because …

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Renters push for support as uncertainty looms during pandemic

Renters push for support as uncertainty looms during pandemic

Jonathan was a surgeon and epidemiologist before he fell prey to a series of spinal injuries and cardiac even…

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No need to worry; it can't happen here

No need to worry; it can't happen here

I thrill to the adventures of fictional journalists such as Lois Lane and Tintin. They comfort the afflicted,…

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What to expect with 100 days before Oregon lawmakers convene

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By Tom Henderson Verified
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It’s barely even October, but Jimmy Jones is already making out his wish list. Some housing would be nice. So would groceries, utilities, health care, child care and transportation. “Those pressures are connected, but they are not experienced equally,” he said.
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One country, under surveillance

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By Tom Henderson Verified
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Albany Planning Commissioner Remi Hill worries that local shoppers could find what’s really for sale is their privacy. “Customers should simply be the customers,” Hill told city councilors July 7. “They shouldn’t be the products. Monetizing our data changes that relationship, and we need to consider carefully how we move forward as a society with that.” Local businesses use surveillance cameras in their parking lots, ostensibly for security, but Hill said she’s not too sure that’s the real reason.
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The fighting (Ms.) Irish

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Big Brother may be watching you, but for whatever comfort it brings, Bre Irish is giving that authoritarian thug the stink eye right back — at least in Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley. One in a wave of democratic socialists running for office, the former legislative aide for U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has left Capitol Hill and is back home in Corvallis. There, she is establishing herself as an iconoclastic voice in an area where people on the left often want to make change without making waves.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Sports writer for the Northwestern Star in Salem, Oregon. My very first paying job was delivering the Fairbanks Daily News Miner in Alaska.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, and in the past 24 hours.

How is social media changing news?

For the worst. We are devolving into an idiocracy, aided and abetted by social media at the expense of real journalism.