Politics

Protected: Fingerprints on the Landscape

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Our America

Pollsters report that a significant number of Americans name political polarization as a major issue. Voices keep shouting out from TV and computer screens to clocks that wake us in the morning to car radios that scream at us as we gingerly try to make our way through traffic. The question reverberates: Are we who […]

Golden Boy

They said Auriel (Aury) Lugner was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he always demurred. Silver was never good enough. In this as well as other respects he was, like most children, a product of parental presence and absence, although in his family that absence often took the form of mental as […]

United States Election Day 2020

“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” –Abraham Lincoln UPDATE: With the coronavirus affecting voters’ ability to vote in person, and restrictions slowing down the US Postal Service, it’s important […]

Principled Bipartisanship

We at Open Spaces asked Senator Ron Wyden to share his thoughts on principled bipartisanship with us and our readers. We appreciate his willingness to do so. They are presented here. A phrase that Oregonians attending my town halls in each of our state’s 36 counties each year will often hear is “principled bipartisanship.” As I […]