Madras, Oregon, Man Heads Up County Project to Put an End to the Cycle of Poverty Juan Garcia helps the family’s youngest, Jacob, 9 months, as he fusses during a recent mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Central Oregon, Madras, where the ecosystem looks like parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua. He introduces me …
heroes come from communities, live through struggle, take life and action up a notch It’s a modest apartment in Newport where I sit with Susan Swift to go over “quite the life” as any listener might say about this feisty, spiritual and articulate, world-traveling woman. The hitching post Susan and I tie our respective philosophical …
How a Lincoln City kid makes good on his goal to build things You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet. — Michael Crawford, writer One might think a profile of a former Oceanlake kid, Taft elementary youth and a teen who dropped out of Taft High School who now, 21 years later, works hard …
on the first nuclear disaster of the 21st Century Sometimes a poet can grasp the human significance of a technological failure better than a scientist. We are fortunate to have these poetic voices from Japan collected here. May we hear them and, more importantly,may we heed them. — John Pearson, MD, Oregon Physicians for Social …
A trillion trees is a start, but the world can’t get past a trump fart crisis after crisis and still the citizen in capitalism follows the paymaster as god, as the answer for children’s grandchildren’s futures! I’ve been running into a lot of soft democrats and confused environmentalists lately who are all up in arms …
looking to see what’s behind those doors that science strives to unlock “Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative …
OSU grad student researches the furry animal’s Oregon re-introduction Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself. — Rachel Carson “I’ve never lived on the West Coast, but I really have absolutely fallen in love with the place.” Dominique Kone …
they wanted to leave during Reagan, Bush, and now many during this Trump Dunce Period, but in fact, Yankee Doodle Dandies and Stars and Bars never leave their DNA behind when they attempt to game other people’s systems Words, and spin, and the Mad Men and Mad Women of this perverse consumerism and cultural wasteland …
NOVA: If this region—New Orleans, the wetlands, and all—were a patient in the hospital, how would you describe them? At what stage are they? IVOR VAN HEERDEN: Close to death. […] There is the potential for extremely high casualties—people not only killed by flying debris, drowning in the soup, but also just imagine, how do …
B. Traven’s novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927): All right,” Curtin shouted back. “If you are the police, where are your badges? Let’s see them.” “Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón …
