Dear Oregon, Let’s be honest. You get a terrible reputation. People talk about Portland and its homelessness, the trash, the feeling of a city losing its young, the taxes climbing higher and higher. They say more people are leaving than coming. And none of that is entirely untrue. But that is not all you are. I carry a deep pride in being from Oregon. Mountains, forests, coastlines, the Columbia river Gorge. Your beauty is spoken about far less than it deserves. I grew up wit