Lawyer and Democratic state Sen. Suzanne Bonamici is competing against Republican business consultant Rob Cornilles for Oregon's 1st Congressional district seat (vacated by sex scandal-ridden David Wu). This is what Bonamici and Cornilles look like on TV, which is...
Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre
Are you suffering from Information Age blues? Drowning in data with no time or inclination to sort through it all? You are not alone. "The issue nowadays is to some extent the need for good filters, pushing away information after centuries of seeking it," writes...
Earthy Crunchy Candidate Runs For Mayor
New Seasons Market co-founder Eileen Brady is running for Mayor of Portland. She says, "Portland needs real people with real experience" in City Hall. Which means experience earned in business, not politics. According to The Oregonian, if elected Brady would give her...
Generation “Sell” Coexists With Generation “Go To Hell”
Portland-based essayist and author William Deresiewicz explores what kind of values support the hipster persona in the opinion pages of The New York Times. "What's the affect of today's youth culture?" he asks. In other words, what's going on underneath those pork pie...
Ken Kesey, The Big Turnip From Pleasant Hill
Eugene Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch paid a visit to Ken Kesey's mom, Geneva Jolley, who turned 95 two weeks ago. In the interview, Mrs. Jolley reflects on her son's first two novels... "When the books came out, they were not red-letter days for me," Geneva says....