Douglas Perry

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Most Oregonians only know a world that has Ron Wyden in Congress. You could almost say he’s the state’s unofficial grandfather — kindly, affable, always around for a buck-up chat when you need one. He seems as timeless as Mount Hood. It wasn’t always this way. Back in the day, the local press called him “a controversial – sometimes abrasive – figure,” and insiders at the Oregon Legislature complained that he relied on “scare tactics” and “emotionalism.” Wyden, in short, was an insurgent.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Thirty years after it ended, Gene Klare reluctantly agreed to talk about the traumatic period that upended his life. The occasion was an academic conference, held at Portland State in the 1990s. It didn’t go well. “He nearly came to blows with an audience member,” recalled Marcus Widenor, a retired University of Oregon professor.

2 months ago | oregonlive.com | Douglas Perry

Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. will be featured on a stamp, the United States Postal Service announced. The USPS called Buckley “one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern U.S. history” and the man who “defined the conservative movement of the mid-20th century.”The honor comes in the year that would have been Buckley’s 100th birthday. He died in 2008. Is this stamp happening because Donald Trump is back in the White House? Not likely.

2 months ago | adn.com | Tatum Todd |Beth Nakamura |Douglas Perry

PORTLAND Ore. – Deputies blocked the road leading into the Cascade Locks Marine Park on Thursday morning as the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office and a team of salvage divers prepared to retrieve possible evidence in a long ago – but not forgotten – mystery. In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned.

2 months ago | oregonlive.com | Tatum Todd |Beth Nakamura |Douglas Perry

Deputies blocked the road leading into the Cascade Locks Marine Park on Thursday morning as the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office and a team of salvage divers prepared to retrieve possible evidence in a long ago – but not forgotten – mystery. In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned. An intensive search of the region followed, turning up nothing.