Columbia Forum celebrates its 30th season and is a partnership between the Astorian, the Coast River Business Journal, and KMUN.
February’s talk features Columbia Forum co-founder Steve Forrester discussing his section of the forthcoming history “Eminent Oregonians.” Forrester will highlight his multiyear study of Richard Neuberger, who in 1954 became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat from Oregon since 1914. Forrester’s landmark effort explores previously unknown facts about this amazing politician, journalist and author whose life richly deserves to be honored by today’s Oregonians.
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In honor of Women's History Month, Michael McCusker shares an essay from the World Women's Congress, entitled, "Women Are The Mothers of Earth."
Salman Rushdie earns the ultimate literary award: a politically and religiously motivated death sentence, in, "My Dinner with Salman Rushdie," written by Eugene Robinson....