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It’s an eternal struggle in California: Businesses want to cut taxes while governments say doing so would decimate services. Three competing measures headed for the November ballot could drastically change California’s tax landscape.
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The Oregon Historical Society recently released a new batch of digitized historical images of some of the state’s earliest Black residents. The photographs provide a rare look into the lives of Black pioneers — and may help solve an intriguing mystery.
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The official histories of places on the map can be a bit on the plain-vanilla side, featuring the dates and the places and the people and how they…
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Eugene Bullard sounds like a character from a movie, and not a totally plausible one, at that. His careers and skills included boxing, spying, and flying…
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Emily Dickinson is revered for her poetry, yet still something of an enigma. No one is quite sure why she was so reclusive later in life, spending nearly…
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Nationalism is taking on some dark overtones in our time, all over the world. Historian and National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser takes the…
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Historical markers dot the landscape of the United States. At best, they can give only about a paragraph of information about significant events at their…
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You don't have to walk far in a Southern Oregon city to find a bar that makes its own beer. Beer-making is booming in the region, and not for the first…
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Gone, but not forgotten. World War II had a huge impact on the region; it was home to both a major army base (Camp White, where White City is now) and a…
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Jacksonville was born and grew into the county seat back in the Victorian days. Even now the historic downtown does not look that different from how it…
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When we refer back to "the wisdom of the ancients," a logical follow-up is "which ancients?" There were many influential cultures in the world millennia…
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Labor Day finds most of the Exchange crew... not laboring. But we worked in advance to provide you with a couple of quality hours of interviews. At 8:…
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Earlier generations of American readers thrilled to the tales of brave locomotive engineers on the railroads, the airline pilots of their day. A Rogue…
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Having people with different viewpoints debate each other on television is nearly as old as TV itself. But the shoutfests of today common to the cable…