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Budget manager Pat Cochran tells Benton commissioners that county revenues are strong but a big hit is coming from PERS costs

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Ray: "I'd much rather have an alternative event than to have students shouting down ... some dope who wandered onto campus"

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Ray defends free speech but adds "You have free speech too"

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Ray on white nationalist activity on campus: "It's ignorant, stupid stuff and we need to push back"

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Ray calls for national effort to close major educational attainment gap between Americans from low- and high-income families

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Ray promotes OSU Student Success Initiative, saying foundation has raised $79 million for the cause so far

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Cheers for OSU baseball team's 56-6 record

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Ray talks up recent dinations, including $25 million for a new arts complex and $50 million to expand veterinary college

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Ed Ray steps to the podium to deliver 2018 OSU State of the University address at Portland ' s Oregon Convention Center

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OSU Alumni Association director Kathy Bickel gets State of the University event started with a nod to OSU'S 150th anniversary

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More than 800 people are expected at the Oregon Convention Center for OSU President Ed Ray's State of the University speech

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Sesquicentennial crayons at OSU State of the University event

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And your 2017 Corvallis First Citizen is .. Trudy Overlin

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Community volunteer Ann Smart, a former First Citizen, is Senior First Citizen

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Mary Bentley of Valley Catering is the Robert C. Ingalls Business Person of the Year

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Barker-Uerlings Insurance is the Business of the Year

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Erin Duncan, a founding organizer of Corvallis Changemakers, named Junior First Citizen

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The 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year is Lainey Morse of Goat Yoga

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The Good Steward of the Planet Award goes to Greenbelt Land Trust

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Crescent Valley High School's Jasmine Engen is this year's Future First Citizen and recipient of a $750 scholarship check