Free news from Oregon Journalism Project: Phil Knight has broken his own record for political spending. The 87-year-old Nike co-founder wrote a $3 million check to the Bring Balance to Salem PAC on Oct. 22, according to a new filing with the Oregon secretary of state.
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Early returns on the historic three-way race for Oregon governor show that the result will come down to a choice between Democrat Tina Kotek and Republican Christine Drazan.
Rep. Mark Johnson (R-Hood River) has gathered more campaign funds than his competitor, Odell Democrat Mark Reynolds, in the hotly contested Oregon House District 52 race.
UO Head Coach Mark Helfrich said his program continuously teaches sportsmanship
The Oregon Duck is a naughty fellow in depictions inside the opulent new football operations center at the University of Oregon. He pokes two fingers in the eyes of the UCLA bear. He punches the Arizona Sun Devil in the jaw.
Let’s start with simile practice: The new Hatfield-Dowlin Football Performance Center at the University of Oregon is to its college football rivals what the Death Star is to the planet Aldoran and the Rebel Alliance in the oldest “Star Wars” films: a looming promise of annihilation.
To the editor: Edited for length. I’d like to discuss the word accountability. It’s an interesting word that has been inflated to the point that it can mean almost anything. It’s like the phrase “moving forward.” Or another abused word, “reform.” Let’s take the word “reform” first. It’s an innocent-looking word. But you can tell that the word has been corrupted when it represents the opposite of what you’d think it would mean. For instance, education reform means “returning to the factory model of public schooling, where students are consumers of industrial-strength doses of testing and corporate curricula.” Pension reform means “taking money from someone else’s pension fund.” Finance reform means “business as usual.”
I’d like to discuss the word accountability. It’s an interesting word that has been inflated to the point that it can mean almost anything. It’s like the phrase “moving forward.” Or another abused word, “reform.”
