-
Nick Ut/AP PhotoCalifornia voted to bar immigrants from schools and social services in 1994. Now most Californians see immigrants as a benefit to the state. -
Roman Battaglia/Jefferson Public RadioNext Wednesday is Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. Throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California, municipalities and groups will celebrate in a variety of ways.
-
The feel of the Old West came through in the novels of Zane Grey. Grey came to love the Rogue River Valley, and built himself a cabin near the river. The… -
This year in America has been compared with 1968, largely because of the sour public mood, coinciding with a presidential election. 1968 was the year… -
The history of our region is rich in detail, and a crowd of people will get their hands dirty this summer digging into it. Quite literally. The Geisel… -
Before the multiplex with the dozen-or-more smallish movies screens, we had big theaters downtown.Medford's a great example: the historic Craterian got a… -
Our society is, in theory, supposed to protect its most vulnerable members. But society failed The Boys in the Bunkhouse for years. The boys of the title… -
Quick, name the federal agency you most recently had contact with. For a lot of people, the answer would be the Postal Service. Its mission and importance… -
Eugene is now home to about five times as many people as it held in 1950. "Leaps and bounds" might be an understatement when it comes to growth. Sara… -
Whether Hillary Clinton wins the White House or not, she is NOT the first woman to try, not by a long shot.The first woman to seek the presidency did so… -
It was what the world wanted: the end of the Soviet Union, the "evil empire," the Communist stronghold. And the USSR did, in fact, dissolve. So why is the… -
Philippe Sands is a writer and international lawyer who works to curtail and punish mass murder by whichever term is used: genocide or crimes against… -
Ask anyone who lived through the 1960s about the most turbulent year of the decade, and they might say 1968: multiple assassinations, riots, and the… -
Information about Queen Elizabeth is abundant; she's reigned over England throughout the television age.It's her long-ago predecessor, Elizabeth I, who…
