When I do research in newspapers, I find what I am looking for, but you also get distracted by all sorts of things. For example, I was looking in Oregon newspapers from 1986 yesterday and this came up. Given the political beliefs and work history...
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I am somewhat ambivalent about the case where the Court decided that Grants Pass, Oregon could bar people from sleeping outdoors in the city. This case split usual allies, as.
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 wanted an education. So he worked and did what he needed to do and found...
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.
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 Monmouth College in Illinois but he had to pay for himself and so he worked...
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.
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 industry is so automated now. But what the owl and ancient forest campaigns did...
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.
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.