2008: Year of Hope, Year of Fear. Essay 8
Is this the year the Republicans went down for the count?
Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting
Is this the year the Republicans went down for the count?
Watching the primaries-concluding speeches of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, voters of a certain age might be excused for feeling that they had in their lifetimes witnessed history. My 21st birthday was less than a month before the 1956 general election, so I was barred from voting. Th
With last-minute approval of a faculty-union contract, outgoing president Karen Morse leaves the new guy with a crisis resolved. Shepard, of Wisconsin, takes office in September.
Republican Chris Dudley, a former Portland Trailblazer, is the latest to join a crowded race for the open seat.