A New Flag for Oregon, a New State for Hawaii, and Grimm
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We think the nascent grassroots campaign to make this design the new state flag of Oregon deserves serious consideration.
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Speaking of makeovers, when artist/planner Neil Freeman redrew the US map to depict 50 states with equal population, he combined Oregon, northern cal, and Hawaii to create “Shasta” (and new tourism-tax possibilities).
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Facing off in the “creative nonfiction” category, machisma-memoir best sellers Cheryl Strayed and Storm Large should settle this month’s Oregon Book Award in a best-two-out-of-three arm wrestling match.
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As the Portland-filmed series Grimm returns for a spring season, its characters battle to survive a forbidding graveyard, a.k.a. NBC’s Nielsen ratings.
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We were totally going to read Portland Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s new report on his proposed federal marijuana decriminalization bill and think some stuff about it, but we sort of got sidetracked.
