On one Oregon day I saw U.S. Representative Andrea Salinas meet her people at the Tigard Library. The next day I drove around the countryside looking at what and who is represented. After joining the crowd in Tigard and listening to how Rep. Salinas spoke to them, I felt certain she had a good handle […]
VICELAND, EMERALD TRIANGLE, FARMERS
Weed farmers vs corporate cannabis. Farmers are the backbone of society. No farmer = no food is the usual view. No food means no happy people, no matter what North Korea says. Unhappy people means street fighting man comes out swinging. Then it’s taser, water cannon, arrests, trials, jail. Not a pretty picture anywhere. […]
BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON
Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]
PORTLAND’S FARM TRIP
How Far Away Is Portland’s Farm, Portland’s Midwest? Not Far At All. Do you ever imagine golden waves of grain while sweating it out in your hotbox apartment? You wait for a breeze to blow through the crops in your mind while heat mirages rise off the asphalt beach parking lot. Or you’re standing in […]