As students, I’m sure many of you have seen the meme floating around social media networks that states the difficulty students face when trying to satisfy their needs for good…
Relationship advice from my grandmother
As a child, my grandmother used to tell me, “You can be with anyone. You just have to choose who you want to put the effort into.” She has a…
Urban agriculture: The answer to farmland loss
It’s easy to see that Portland is changing. Never have I seen so many cranes and buildings under construction or so many cars jam packed onto the highway. Wait times…
Nestlé’s proposal in the Cascade Locks
Since moving to Portland five years ago, I’ve spent every summer hiking beautiful mountains, playing in the mud and rain, and swimming in the many natural lakes and rivers. It’s…
The existence of climate change
As a freshman in high school, I sat in a room full of quietly working students when someone finally broke the silence, turned to our teacher and asked, “What’s global…
Cannaparisons
With its hordes of bikers, cloudy grey skies, rain, overgrown trees, flowers falling on the tops of houses, street food and legal marijuana, Amsterdam could be considered the European version…
Border control or lack thereof?
Five days after the Paris attacks, Brussels went into a citywide lockdown due to fear that one of the terrorist organizers was hiding within the city on Nov. 21. According…
Crossing the border into Germany
“It’s not a refugee crisis, but a politics crisis,” stated an education and history student at the University of Hamburg, “Refugees aren’t the problem. The war is.” During my time…