Jeff Seward, associate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University, discusses the Obama presidency. Seward has taught comparative politics, political philosophy, and political economy since 1992. He had a previous career as a producer, reporter, and anchorman for public television stations in Boise and Seattle.He has been a regular speaker at HGP having appeared a half dozen times before.
Mark Eifler speaks about the international aspects of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. When Lewis and Clark journeyed to the Columbia River in 1805, they entered a region that was hotly contested by several aggressive imperial powers. Thomas Jefferson was acutely aware of this, and his plan to send Americans into the region set off an international race to stop the Lewis and Clark expedition. This presentation examines the attempts of the Spanish, Russians, British, and Blackfeet Indians to stop the American move into the Pacific Northwest. Mark Eifler received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He now teaches at the University of Portland.
DeeAnn Sandberg is in the Community Affairs Dept. at Tri-Met Capital Projects. She reports on the progress of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Orange MAX Line Project. She presents segments showing the forthcoming Tri-Met Transit Bridge over the Willamette River. Arnie Panitch is a volunteer member of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Community Advisory Committee. He contributes a discussion of the vision and completion of the 7-mile alignment due to open September 12, 2015. The rail line is at 50% completion to date, on time and on budget.
Arnie Panitch started walking the Lair Hill neighborhood of South Portland in 2003 when he moved here from Boise. Photojournalist Ken Kane began producing a slide show after having taken several versions of Panitch's walks. Together, they present a power point talk of Italian and Jewish immigration to Portland at the turn of the 20th Century. We see what happened when the urban renewal planners and the highway builders decided to knock down the area in the late 1950s. Arnie's father immigrated from Ukraine to Chicago in 1913.