opinion
Tektronix founder’s centennial prompts ode to STEM education
A University of Portland electrical engineering professor honors Melvin Murdock’s legacy with a series of math puzzles.
The unnecessary burden of filing taxes
Every April I get shudders just thinking about the pending deadline for filing taxes. I am not exaggerating when I say the task feels like a form of purgatory.
Opinion: To solve affordable housing problem increase supply
Ultimately addressing housing affordability will depend on a market-based solution.
Opinion: Private day care – Stop using the public school system’s lead
Why do private day care centers follow public school snow days?
Opinion: Agriculture in Transition
Roughly 64% of Oregon’s farmland will change hands in the next 20 years. Who will inherit the earth?
Opinion: TPP will enhance intellectual property protections
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would strengthen intellectual property protections and reduce other barriers to trade.
Oregon: State of Wonder, or State of Failure?
Oregon’s license plates once read: “Pacific Wonderland.” Crammed into our great state are rain forests, deserts, mountains, plains, large cities and one-road towns. We also have one national park and a few volcanoes. It’s possible to wake up in your home in Portland, hop in your car, surf Seaside in the morning, ski Timberline in … Read more
Storyteller-in-Chief : Vive la France
I first lived in France in 1991. I was struggling with fitting in at Reed — it was lonely being one of three members of the Reed Republicans — and I did not feel any kind of existential urgency to finish college. I loved the idea of France because I had studied the language since … Read more