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Articles from the April 25, 2020 edition


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  • Carefree succulents continue to grow in popularity

    Apr 25, 2020

    Sticks on fire By Kym Pokorny About 10 years ago, succulents began an extraordinary rise in po an extraordinary rise in popularity. They turned up everywhere – on windowsills, in wreaths and centerpieces, arranged in frames, even dyed. Nowadays, succulents are hipper than ever. Everyone seems to have at least one. Marcia Sherry, an Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener since 1999, has many more than that – around 50 different varieties at last count. When she was in college, Sherry came face to face with a...

  • Incompetent Portland opium-smuggling gang had friends in high places

    Apr 25, 2020

    Stark St. Ferry By Finn J.D. John As the new day dawned on the first day of 1893, Customs Collector Jim Lotan would have told you, had you asked, that life was good. The previous year had been good to him. After years of working his way up through the ranks in the Republican Party, he’d found himself its state party leader after Senator Joe Simon went to Washington, D.C., to join the Republican National Committee. He’d reached that position just in time to blackmail the City of Portland, which had come cap in hand asking the Leg...

  • Doodles

    Apr 25, 2020