This is the grave of Ben Olcott. Born in 1872 in Keithsburg, Illinois, he grew up out there and then moved to Chicago after high school. In 1891, he decided.
This is the grave of Douglas McKay. Born in 1893 in Portland, Oregon, McKay grew up pretty poor and had to drop out of school to work. But he really.
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.
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.
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..
