To the editor: What issues do Oregonians most care about? Here are each party’s top five issues from the last election (source: the Oregonian): Democrats: 1) education, 2) jobs, 3) healthcare, 4) the distribution of wealth in the US, and 5) climate change.

To the editor: The U.S. economy has gone to heck in a handbasket, the national debt is out of control, unemployment is high and government spending and waste is ridiculous.

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