The Red Electric

From 1915 to 1928, the interurban Red Electric train passed through Hillsdale, now part of Portland. The trip offered a chance for passengers to share their views. My Red Electric blog is a vehicle for web travelers to do the same.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

America's inequitable Constitution

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One of our Oregon Senators, Jeff Merkley, has been trying to put a stop to Senate filibusters th...

Monday, April 15, 2013

The Divine Verb

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Photo by Peter Sch ü tte G od is neither Father nor Mother, Neither Master nor Ruler, Neit...

Thursday, April 11, 2013

The future begins today

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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet ...

Friday, April 05, 2013

Change and Aging

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Tom Meyer led a recent discussion at our Quaker meeting on the topic of “Aging.” He began with his o...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Two Sides of Fairness

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A friend recently returned from Nicaragua’s tourist-crazy Granada. He reported that while there h...

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Rick Seifert: Portland, Oregon, United States; I'm a semi-retired journalist and former college teacher of journalism. Much of my time is devoted to volunteering in my Portland neighborhood of Hillsdale, where I publish an on-line newsletter, The Hillsdale News (hillsdalenews.org). As a Quaker, I am active in the Multnomah Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

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