This is the grave of Oswald West. Born in 1873 in Guelph, Ontario, West grew up in Salem, Oregon, where his family moved around 1877. He went to the local schools and then went into banking in Oregon. In 1898, he got the gold bug...
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The Supreme Court case today over criminalizing homelessness has a lot of interest to me, largely because it comes from Grants Pass, a small town I know well in southwestern.
This is the grave of Charles Sprague. Born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1887, he grew up in a pretty middle class household. His father ran grain elevators. He went to.
Back in 1998, I was driving across the country. Somewhere in east Texas, I stopped at a fast food joint. Back in them olden days, one could read a physical newspaper in such places. Not having seen the news for a day or so, I...
This is the grave of James Slater. Born in 1826 outside of Springfield, Illinois, Slater grew up in Illinois, attended the local public schools, and was not particularly exceptional. He.
The Northwest timber industry cannot move past 1993. The spotted owl issue did not break the industry--there are still tons and tons of trees logged, but with fewer people because.
Oregon Republicans are among the worst Republicans, which is why they can never win statewide office. Rather than have some kind of moderate position to compete with Democrats, they just go for the most extreme possible positions, which works for them in Douglas and Baker...
The end of an era here. The Oregon House on Monday overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow self-service options at every gas station in Oregon, raising a real possibility the.
The idiot Oregon rednecks tried to secede and join Idaho has gotten a bunch of play all of a sudden, first with a CNN piece and now from the Times..
I wouldn't pony up the money for Pappy, just on principle, but this is some pretty bad, if ultimately low-level corruption. Bourbon aficionados have watched over the years as Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve bourbon has become a highly coveted luxury item — a status...
The greatest misnomer in society is "law enforcement" since the cops have long ago decided that they are the ones who decide the law. That's especially true in left-leaning states.
This story sure makes you believe in the cops: For more than two years, the Portland Police Bureau has insisted its detectives diligently investigated the 2019 killing of a well-known.