New Orleans Eastern Oregon is an interesting part of the West. Tourists think of the northwestern biosphere as wet and woolly, Portland and Seattle, big trees and five-foot tall ferns, but once you get over the Cascades into eastern Washington and Oregon, its high desert, few trees, lots of cows and much like the rest …
Category: Ideas and Issues
“One of Us” and Fear of the Outsiders
New Orleans Reading the tales of migrants struggling to flee civil wars in the Middle East is becoming a classic definition of the daily downer: unwanted, feared, and shunned. Women fleeing with children seem under constant attack, including sexual abuse. Countries erecting US-like walls and barriers of concertina wire at their boundaries. Even the Nordic …
Hate Takes No Holiday: Texas Plumber Shaggy Truck Story
New Orleans Mark Oberholtzer has been a plumber and plumbing contractor based out of Galveston, Texas for over thirty years. His son Jeff works with him and is his business partner. They put about 130,000 miles in a three year period on their work trucks. The greater Houston area is a big drink of water, …