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To the editor: Gotta say, Mr. Walden, you may want to think that your critics are just people from Portland, but I’m here in The Dalles and I am talking to the actual people who live here and we are not happy with the job you are doing.

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PARIS (AP) — Several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said, announcing that he was closing the country's borders and declaring a state of emergency.

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian and Iranian officials criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for excluding them from an international coalition coming together in the battle against the Islamic State group, while a state-run Syrian daily warned that unauthorized U.S. airstrikes on Syria may trigger the "first sparks of fire" in the region.

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To the editor: ... Republican Rep. Greg Walden is a leader of the House (chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee) and our representative from eastern Oregon, and he is a prime player in this “moronic policy.” Walden was quoted yesterday in his Washington office as saying the public anger over the shutdown would be forgotten by the 2014 elections. That attitude is offensive.