Kami Horton

Nov 4, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Kami Horton

Perrin Thompson kisses her ballot for luck and does a little dance before dropping it into a drop site outside of the Multnomah County Elections Division in Portland, Ore., Nov. 8, 2022. That year, all three major candidates for Oregon governor were women. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBYour browser does not support the audio element. This election season, we’re looking back at the fight for women’s suffrage. When Oregon became a state, only white men could vote.

Oct 25, 2024 | heraldandnews.com | Kami Horton

On Friday, President Joe Biden issued a formal apology for the federal government’s decadeslong policy of placing Native American children in boarding schools as part of forced assimilation. The apology is a first. No other sitting U.S. president has publicly apologized for the federal boarding school policies that began as early as 1819 and lasted until at least the 1960s. kAm%9C@F89@FE E96 3@2C5:?8 D49@@= 6C2[ E96 7656C2= 8@G6C?>6?E E@@< E6?D @7 E9@FD2?5D @7 x?5:86?@FD 49:=5C6?

Oct 25, 2024 | opb.org | Kami Horton

On Friday, President Biden plans to issue a formal apology for the federal government’s decadeslong policy of placing Native American children in boarding schools as part of forced assimilation. The apology will be a first. No other sitting U.S. president has publicly apologized for the federal boarding school policies that began as early as 1819 and lasted until at least the 1960s. In this image, circa 1900s, students in uniforms pose in front of the Chemawa Indian Training School.

May 30, 2024 | opb.org | Kami Horton

In 1894, rapid spring snowmelt in the Cascade Mountains led to Portland’s largest recorded flood, reaching a high-water mark of over 33 feet and covering 250 square blocks. That year, late spring saw heavy rain and quickly rising temperatures throughout the Willamette Valley. On May 30, the Oregonian newspaper warned readers of “a record smasher” on the way, bringing the “highest water ever known.”As the Columbia overran its banks, it also backed up the already heavy Willamette River.

Mar 30, 2024 | opb.org | Kami Horton

On March 30, 1894, Heceta Head’s scenic lighthouse began operations. Today, that same lighthouse still illuminates the Oregon Coast. The federal government began building Oregon’s lighthouses in 1870 along prominent headlands and major estuaries to help guide commercial ships and fishing vessels. Heceta Head, north of Florence, is a part of the lava flow of an extinct volcano. It stands 1,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, providing the ideal spot for a lighthouse.