Melissa Hart

Eugene

Journalist and Contributing Editor at Freelance

Storytelling, PNW nature, history. Work in @nytimes @WaPo @Smithsonian @realsimple @CNN @longreads #queerspawn

Articles

In "Nature," Australian climate scientists discover a new oppressed group: themselves.

Oct 18, 2024 | stevesailer.net | Melissa Hart |Negin Nazarian |Steve Sailer

Much of wokeness is a search for victim status based on ever more exquisitely trivial examples of wounded amour propre. For example, from Nature:17 October 2024Season’s mis-greetings: why timing matters in global academiaStop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive.
A Spooky Celebration

Oct 1, 2024 | prbplus.com | Melissa Hart

Oregon’s Spirit of Halloweentown capitalizes on the iconic 1998 movieMost of us celebrate Halloween on a single night. But in the small waterfront town of St. Helens, Ore.—27 miles north of Portland—strange and spooky festivities over six autumn weekends attract thousands of visitors. Witches perform spirited broom dances in gorgeous silk and velvet costumes. Shop windows display skeletons and ghouls, cemetery scenes, and creeping tentacles.
I Ran Marathons Until I Got Oral Cancer.

Aug 28, 2024 | humanparts.medium.com | Melissa Hart

The candy box is flat and pale yellow; on it, five blue-eyed kittens glare with disapproval at an unseen photographer. “Katzenzungen.” I read the raised gold font as my friend looks on, her excitement over the birthday gift barely contained. “Cat tongues?” I translate. Twelve years ago, I ignored a sore spot on my tongue for months. My husband and I, wanting to immerse our adopted four-year-old in the culture of her birth mother, rented out our Oregon cottage and moved to Costa Rica with her.
Melissa Joan Hart Speaks Out About ‘Quiet on Set’ Doc: I ‘Believe’ the Victims ‘One Hundred Percent’

Mar 28, 2024 | lovebscott.com | Melissa Hart |Denver Sean

Melissa Joan Hart says she “one hundred percent” believes the allegations made against Nickelodeon in the “Quiet on Set” documentary. via Page Six:Hart, 47, told Meghan McCain on Thursday that while she hasn’t seen the doc — which details the abuse Drake Bell suffered at the hands of voice coach Brian Peck — she fully supports those who came forward.
The Vaudevillian Ghosts of Liberty

Feb 13, 2024 | hiddencompass.net | Melissa Hart

Winter 2024 / by Melissa Hart Ad Free. Reader Funded. Your contribution supports our partnership with the author of this piece. On top of their article pay, 50% of all contributions go directly to this journalist. On a sunny summer Friday in the town of Astoria on the northwest tip of Oregon, I wandered down a shop-lined street between Pioneer Cemetery and the vast Columbia River.
Administrative Deference in Colorado

Oct 6, 2023 | statecourtreport.org | Melissa Hart |Zach Clopton |Martha Davis |Emma Hetherington

The following is an edited excerpt from an article by Justice Hart in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. When it comes to interpreting agency decisions, the Colorado Supreme Court has described its position on deference to the state’s administrative agencies in varied and sometimes inconsistent formulations, sometimes even within the same opinion.
Cat expert explains why your cat is always acting weird

Oct 6, 2023 | bostonherald.com | Melissa Hart

By Melissa Hart, special to Southern California News GroupSamantha Bell’s Hollywood apartment is a cat’s dream home, filled with elegant scratching posts, plant-festooned cat trees and tasteful baskets holding feather wands and catnip mice. Window seats allow her kitties access to fresh air. “I think about the things my cats are missing from the outdoors and adapt their indoor habitat so their needs are met,” she says.
Cat expert explains why your cat is always acting weird

Oct 3, 2023 | ocregister.com | Melissa Hart

By Melissa HartSamantha Bell’s Hollywood apartment is a cat’s dream home, filled with elegant scratching posts, plant-festooned cat trees and tasteful baskets holding feather wands and catnip mice. Window seats allow her kitties access to fresh air. “I think about the things my cats are missing from the outdoors and adapt their indoor habitat so their needs are met,” she says.
HOW DOWN SYNDROME MAKES A BRAIN Beautifully DIFFERENT

Sep 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Melissa Hart

HOW DOWN SYNDROME MAKES A BRAIN Beautifully DIFFERENTSeeing people for their abilities, not their diagnoses by Melissa Hart When Charlotte Woodward was born, she had a genetic condition called Down syndrome. Doctors told her parents that she’d most likely never learn to read or write. All she could expect as an adult, they said, was a job in a sheltered workshop making less than minimum wage. “My mom knew that wasn’t right, so she didn’t take those words to heart,” Woodward, now 33, says.
I met my true love in the dog park. He invited me on a date to pick up 600 pounds of frozen rats and a baby owl.

Sep 24, 2023 | insider.com | Melissa Hart

After my divorce, I moved from Los Angeles to Oregon. At the dog park, I started making casual conversation with a man. He invited me out on a date. We picked up 600 pounds of frozen rats to help injured birds. I wasn't looking for love when I took my rescued mutts to the dog park, and I sure wasn't looking for a gig helping to care for injured birds of prey, but all bets are off when you divorce your childhood sweetheart and move 700 miles north of your hometown.