Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oregon. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2011

Democratic Party head Bill Luckett leaving Wyoming

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Bill Luckett worked his ass off the Democrats in Wyoming. We'll miss him. He's going to Oregon where his wife recently got a job. I ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Oregon tests "solar highways"

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So Oregon, which has about half of the average annual sunlight as Wyoming, is turning one stretch of interstate into a "solar highway....
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Impulsive 1840s pioneers longed "to see what the next elevation hides from view"

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I’m reading Will Bagley’s first volume of a projected three-part series about the West’s overland trails. It's entitled “So Rugged and M...
Friday, August 27, 2010

The late William Stafford meditates (poetically) on peace in "Every War Has Two Losers"

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This new documentary is about William Stafford, one of America's -- and the West's -- best poets. He was a conscientious objector du...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

So many good stories so close to home

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I entered the creative writing program at Colorado State University just a few weeks after Raymond Carver died Aug. 2, 1988, in Port Angeles...
Friday, September 18, 2009

A very short story set in the Old West to wrap up ADHD Awareness Week

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"The pursuit of the big sky and the attitude of 'Don't fence me in' may be one of the reasons why Idaho leads the nation in...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Fiction becomes film becomes reality

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Brad Cain of the Associated Press reports that part of the Oregon State Hospital in Salem will be spared the wrecking ball and serve as a mu...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

In the West, crowds gather for Obama

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Everyone in Wyoming turned out to see Sen. Barack Obama today... Just kidding. This photo shows the crowd along the banks of the Willamette ...
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