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WikipediaLes AuCoin spent 18 years representing Northwest Oregon in the U.S. House, at a time when issues like the spotted owl and forest management were looming… -
WikimediaNorma Paulus left the planet in 2019. She was Oregon's first woman secretary of state, first woman major party candidate for governor, and later…
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Welcome to 2020! New Year's Day gives us a chance to look both forward and backward at once. We revisit some Exchange segments from the past. At 8: Vivek…
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Europeans had traded with parts of Africa for centuries, rarely getting beyond the coastal regions. That changed in the 1870s, when the search for riches…
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Theresa Howell is a children's book author, with several titles already in print. Her mother-in-law, Janet Howell, is a state senator in Virginia, and…
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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…
