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The courthouse I don’t remember if I knew who then-U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield was before I started college at Willamette University in the Fall of 1993. I was, relatively speaking, politically aware at the age of 18, but that’s not a particularly high bar. To the degree I was unaware of Hatfield before going to Willamette,…
The dream of the ’70s is alive in Portland If I were to ask you to describe the Portland City Council in relation to an historical figure, “Nixonian” probably wouldn’t leap immediately to mind, but it should. In the early 1970s, Nixon instituted price and wage controls throughout the economy in an effort to combat…
Football and Father Luke Good intentions, when acted upon rashly, often lead to bad outcomes. Those who intend to purge racism from America’s institutions should not drive from view or from acceptable public discourse instances in our history in which racism was beaten back, just because those instances necessarily require the depiction of racists who lost….
The other day, a group of people toppled a statue of Thomas Jefferson from its perch in front of Jefferson High School in Portland. The white man interviewed by Willamette Week in the article linked above explains that he participated in bringing down the statue because he wanted to support people of color, and didn’t think it was appropriate for…
