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OREGONIAN OF RECORD

When News Leads, The Oregonian Gets There First. Before the internet we watched television news. Walter Cronkite explained how it was before signing off each night with, “And that’s the way it is.” Baby boomers got used to watching the non-telegenic Cronkite’s newscast. No need for a pretty boy like Brian Williams giving the news […]

OREGON EDUCATION SHOWS OFF

Rob Saxton: The Right Stuff In Oregon Education? If you want a 9-5 job, don’t be a teacher. Forget a quiet walk. Teachers run into students and former students all their lives. It’s inescapable. They’re marked. You’re thinking of a teacher right now. Teachers, aka Educators, are woven into societal fabric. Everybody knows that. They […]

MARCUS MARIOTA: WORTH WHAT?

Freddie Coleman Asks His ESPN Radio Listeners: What’s Marcus Mariota Worth? A man from New Jersey came on 1080 The Fan Tuesday night. Between 9 and 9:30 Pacific Time, which is 12:00-12:30 his time, the Jersey Boy said Marcus Mariota is worth mortgaging your team the next five years for. Keep in mind his team […]

MILLENNIAL APOLOGY SINKS IN

Why Baby Boomers Need A Millennial Apology.   1. We’re sorry our music is so lame we have listen to classic rock. Who really supports the Stones and Rod Stewart in concert? 2. We’re sorry for thinking we’re smart enough to run the world in our 20’s. We’d be better at it but I’ve got […]

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR INDIANA?

Religious Freedom For Jim Nabors? For all you hear about Oregon, from overpriced Portland, to overpriced craft beer, to almost the lowest high school graduation rate in the nation, we’ve got perks. We might be raising tomorrow’s morons, but all is not lost. At least we try to keep gay bashing low on the legislative […]

STEVE PREFONTAINE UNLOCKED

Prison Running Winner: Steve Prefontaine. Great sports events trap time in a bubble. You remember your favorite player scoring the winning points like it was yesterday, locking the image into your mind and throwing away the key. Yours for life. If the event was big enough, you learn more about the player and the game. […]

WHO ARE BOOMERS?

Who-Who? Who-Who? Who Are Boomers? For starters, the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, is a boomer. It’s nice being in the same group with the big dogs. The inventor of the richest company in the world? Steve Jobs, boomer. Glad to have him on board. With the numbers out of the way, and bottom line […]

WILT’S SON FROM SOUTH EUGENE?

  Wilt The Chopper; Wilt’s Son An Axeman A recent Sports Illustrated cover showed a man calling himself Wilt’s son. Why on the cover and why Wilt Chamberlain? The Big Dipper is called the most transformative athlete in sports. At least in basketball. That ought to be enough. But he’s dead. Been dead a while. […]

OREGON PROSECUTORS AT REST

With Each Other? Office affairs, romances, attractions? Happens all the time. Single people dating each other is normal. Dinner? Drinks? Taking a walk? Growing a network and connecting the dots couldn’t be more exciting. Oregon prosecutors looking down the road need all the help they can get. By getting closer they learn more about their […]

KITZHABER: The Movie

Casting For Kitzhaber. Recent developments in the former Oregon governor’s life scream for justice. And a movie. One thing is certain in modern times: We learn more from movies than we do from television news. Or the educational system. The Daily Show? Better than Foreign Affairs 401? If we’re expected to understand the depth and […]