New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, is scrambling to obtain ventilators wherever it can find them. The state ordered 17,000 of the life-saving devices from the federal government, but “that order never…
Oregon state and local health officials reported 73 new known cases of the novel coronavirus Friday, bringing the state's total to 899. OHA also announced one additional death Friday. The state now has 22 known deaths from the virus. The latest…
The sun keeps poking out from behind the clouds, taunting us with all the places we'd rather be than stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. So the “Oregon Field Guide” team is raiding our archives to take you on a series of…
Mention government financing public works projects and sooner or later someone's going to bring up the Works Progress Administration. That conjures scenes from the 1930s, the breadlines and soup kitchens and the wan-faced men selling apples on the…
Amadeo Sumano picks strawberries with his bare hands in Ventura county, on California's central coast, and packs them into plastic containers bound for supermarkets. He received a letter from his employerinforming pickers about the importance of…
