@ajrohne
Media consumer, with a particular appetite for history, law, business, and nature.
It’s interesting to see the GOP emulating some of the DFL’s recent successes with voter drives, while having to fit that into their “election fraud” narrative.
The G.O.P.’s Election-Integrity Trap
Donald Trump has spent years arguing that mail-in voting is fraudulent and corrupt. Now the Republican National Committee, which sees mail-in voting as essential, must persuade his base to embrace it.
newyorker.com
This is some Portland nostalgia that I must experience. I love a good river cruise, and I’d love to see Portland from a new perspective. Even despite the “conference food.”
The Portland Spirit Turns 30 Years Old
The iconic vessel will celebrate three decades by floating the Willamette with a ’90s-themed cruise.
wweek.com
A story of a local weekly’s survival, but not the story we’re used to reading.
Stung
I got the call on Dec. 13, 2023, as I zoomed south on I-5, bleary and stressed after a late-night flight from Florida. I’d flown into Seattle, thinking I could save money on my return flight from F…
eugeneweekly.com
Yesterday’s total eclipse brought me into contact with this 1982 essay, describing the absurd, disorienting, and fantastic experience of witnessing the totality. I hope to have an opportunity one day.
Total Eclipse
"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him."
theatlantic.com
