Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
"Bundled securities...phony annual reports...bribed politicians...a crashed
economy. These familiar-sounding conditions are just part of the legacy of
the men who built the 19th century transcontinenta...
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Host Dave Mazza interviews travel writer Jeff Greenwald about his experiences
in Nepal in the '90s during the "people power" uprising. His new book Snake
Lake explores his time beneath the Himalayas as he wins the friendship of a
high lama who reveals the pillars of Tibe...
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Breaking trails in politics and law: A conversation with former Oregon
Supreme Court Justice Betty Roberts.
Betty Roberts was a child of the Great Depression. From the Texas plains of
her childhood, she went on to become a teacher, lawyer, state legislator and
Oreg...
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This fall, Portlanders will decide whether to continue their experiment with
voter-owned elections. The question becomes more relevant in the wake of
Citzens United vs. Federal Elections Commission, a recent Supreme Court
ruling that removed bans on corporate campaign sp...
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The appointment of Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler as state treasurer
last Tuesday churned county and state political waters this week. Wheeler,
appointed by Governor Kulongoski to fill the vacancy created by State
Treasurer Ben Westlund's death, is now better positio...
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Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted
murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder
their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in
Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 2...
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The list of city residents who've become victims at the hands of the Portland
police continues to grow, leading Oregonian columnist Anna Griffin to observe
the news stories about these incidents "makes the Rose City's finest look
like thugs with badges." In the meantime,...
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Robin Hahnel is a radical economist and political activist. He is Professor
Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. where he taught in the
Department of Economics from 1976 – 2008. He has also taught at the
University of Maryland at College Park, the Catho...
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Curtis Edward McCarty was convicted and sentenced to death twice for a 1982
murder in Oklahoma City. After repeated court battles and 21 years in prison
- 19 on death row - McCarty was exonerated and released following a 2005
appeals court ruling based on new DNA evidenc...
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Seven months into a new administration and the nation still finds itself
embroiled in two Asian wars. Many Americans would have difficulty explaining
how the Obama administration's conduct of these wars differs from the last
administration's. They're certainly not being ...
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