Over in Portland and the Valley, Gordon Smith's TV ads portray him as a friendly, mild-mannered, bipartisan sort with a strong tinge of green. On the other side of the Cascades, the spin is a little different.
Oregon, our clean, green state, is actually a leading importer of other places' garbage - and there could be a lot more of it on the way.
After a run of 26 years, the Cascade Festival of Music has folded.
As the George W. Bush presidency lurches and staggers to its conclusion, the good people of San Francisco have come up with an ingenious idea for paying tribute to Bush's … uh, special achievements.
Indians killed Danish Khawaja's father.
The 12-year-old Pakistani boy with big brown eyes lost his dad to militants from India who fought for the controversial plot of land called Kashmir.
Like many Kashmiris, Danish's father was a jihadist in the India-Pakistan conflict. And like many children in the region, Danish could easily join a jihadist group to strike back at those who killed his father. Instead, he chooses to become a doctor.
"I want to help people," Danish told me between classes on a muggy May
morning in Muzaffarabad, the capital city of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
Danish
is just one of hundreds of students supported by Kashmir Family Aid,
the Bend-based nonprofit organization that I direct founded in 2005 by
longtime Bend resident Sam Carpenter.
We assist children in
Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and in Azad Kashmir, where the
October 2005 earthquake, according to CNN and Newsday reports, killed
at least 73,000, left 3 million homeless and destroyed more than 1,000
hospitals and 8,000 of the region's 11,000 primary and secondary
schools.
Our primary goal is to counter poverty and terrorism
while promoting women's rights by providing secular education to
quake-affected children. No politics. No religion.
The Eye doesn't want to appear to be picking on Gordon Smith, but he just seems to be presenting a lot of targets of opportunity this week. The latest: He's come out with a video touting how he's cooperated in the Senate with - get ready for it - Barack Obama.
Gordon Smith - perhaps stung by Democratic criticism of his penchant for buying ultra-expensive golf clubs and hanging out with fat-cat lobbyists - has canceled his big fundraising golf party planned for next weekend at Bandon Dunes.
Let There Be Rock!We caught up with DBT founder and frontman Patterson Hood at his home in Athen, GA recently to discuss the band, some music history and the ongoing tour. Hood was in a talkative mood and generously gave us almost a half an hour of his time.
It's an old story, but Oregon Democrats are still hoping to score political points with it: Gordon Smith once paid more than a million dollars for four golf clubs.
The Democratic Party of Oregon has unleashed a brutal video attacking the 2nd District's own Greg Walden for voting against the federal timber payments bill earlier this month.
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