“’If you’re going to classify this story in any way, the story that you classify it as is a tragedy.’”
Oregon
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Listening for Echoes of the Forest Grove Sound
“A physics expert and audio engineer may have solved the mystery of a strange noise that rattled an Oregon town in 2016.”
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Becoming Earth
“But here the line is blurred. In the afterlife of cedars, nothing is ever dead.”
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Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Skyrocketed.
“The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.”
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‘It’s Like a War Zone’: What Happened When Portland Decriminalized Fentanyl
“Drug overdoses killed some 87,000 Americans over a 12-month period ending in September 2024 — more lives lost than the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined.”
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The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal
“Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?”
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The Gender Refugees
“When the Andersons fled Iowa City in 2022, they joined a growing group of American families escaping states that have become hostile for transgender communities. Where do they go from here?”
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The Land Beyond the Drug War
“It’s more than fifty years on from our declaration of a war on narcotics, and people are getting higher on more destructive shit than ever.”
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Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor
“After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create.”
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The Himalayan Tragedy That Forever Changed Mountaineering
“In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, the daughter of legendary alpinist Willi Unsoeld, died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was named.”