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March 28, 2011
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Many Oregonians have forgotten our state was once a stronghold for the Ku Klux Klan, which focused most of its hatred, not on blacks, but on Catholics in the 1920s. Some may enjoy the irony of Klan gatherings in Ashland and Lane County pictured on the Oregon Encyclopedia website at the following link: Ku Klux Klan | Oregon Encyclopedia – Oregon History and Culture . Oregon probably has no more reason to be ashamed of its past and present prejudices than any other place, just as Oregonians have no right to feel superior about our progressive
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January 24, 2011
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Most of the experiences I count as successes during my career as a city manager began as romantic ideas. Before anyone starts to make salacious assumptions about what constitutes "romantic," the following definition from Webster's explains the word as follows: "marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious or idealized." I can even find these attributes in our new wastewater treatment plant or while helping someone when a rat finds its way into her toilet. All of this may explain why I have always jumped at the opportunity to do work in other parts of the world.
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