To Help Rural America, Forget the Red-Blue Divide
A Trump-loving county in eastern Oregon has a plan to reverse economic decline by becoming more like … Portland.
Malheur National Forest logs to be chipped in the torrefaction plant in John Day.
Photographer: Richard Hanners/The Eagle
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In the mountainous high desert of Grant County, Oregon, America’s battle over infrastructure appears hopelessly misguided.
While lawmakers debate roads versus colleges and jobs versus climate change, residents of this beautiful but economically struggling region are piecing together a future that scrambles or even renders irrelevant many terms of that debate.