Topic: decades

Over the past decades, we have spent our summers sharing the “ranch life” with people from around the world. Families spent a week or two of their summer vacation with us, horseback riding, relaxing, and sharing meals together. This summer we are doing the same, but with a huge difference. This summer will be our last, as we have entered into an agreement to sell the ranch. We will be...

Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler has begun to shift his priorities and increase his interest in solving decades-old problems with Portland's public mental health system. Signs of his shifting priorities includes recent private comments from a variety of close watchers of County politics and public health services, and changes to the County's web site. The County's web site, Update on Cascadia...

If there's one thing becoming increasingly clear in 2008, it's that marketing techniques that have worked for years — and in some cases decades — may not get the job done anymore. Like it or not, the market's different now. Nobody knows if the differences are temporary or permanent. But for the short term, at least, you may have to add some more creative steps to your dance routine. A...

I can't wait to leave town; and I can't wait to get back. It turns out that everything I have now I have always wanted. I'm talking about living in a small town on a gorgeous sliver of the Pacific coast. For decades, we'd pack our kids and our camping gear and head up to Oregon from Southern California, to spend two weeks appreciating breathtaking sights. We made it up to Astoria one year,...

How realistic is Batman? At best, this book will lay out a strategy for aspiring superheroes not imbued with superpowers. At worst, this book will stifle a decades-old ongoing discussion at college coffeehouses and bars everywhere. You know I "preordered" mine. Coming in October -- A book by E. Paul Zehr -- Becoming Batman: The Possibility of A Superhero. Zehr is a professor of...

It's not only the US which has a micro revolution. New breweries are popping up all over the globe, and as with the young American breweries, a lot these have energy and a nice measure of irreverence. Some may be world classics in a few decades, so you can get in on the ground floor now. I have tried only one of these, so I'm running blind here. Caveat Beeror. Ølfabrikken - Porter...

Decades ago my grandparents emigrated legally from Italy to the USA. Like others at that time part of the process to enter America was a medical inspection to check a variety of problems - from pregnancy to scalp infections to various other ailments. That was when the US government's goal was to protect the legal residents and citizens already here. Our government is opposite from those days....

Demons, ghouls and buckets of blood: For decades, filmmakers have delighted in terrorizing their audiences — and we love them for it. This month, CNN.com picked the top 10 most spine-tingling moments. From Hitchcock to Cronenberg, their choices have left us sleepless and shivering with fear. See the list here....

1654. On 26 Feb 2007, Salem's mayor announces, after a gap of decades, the return of commercial air service to Salem Airport. Daily flights to Salt Lake City, which seems a little strange, but there's no percentage in looking a gift horse in the mouth. Besides, Salem boosters worked awfully hard to win this. On 12 Jun 2008 we read, via SalemPappy, that Delta's SkyWest is suspending air service to...