Last Saturday, I stood in the pounding rain with 160 protesters.  An occasional wind gust blew back my rain hood, adding to the midwinter chill. Unlike the protesters in Minneapolis, those of us lining the street didn’t suffer freezing temperatures, but we shivered enough to feel h

Several years ago, a woman, who would later become the first female governor of Oregon, snapped at my observation that politics would be better off without political parties.  People should vote directly for candidates without needing approval from an “old boy” network, I said.