Tim Boyle, Pat Kilkenny Ante Up For Higher Ed PAC

By Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week

A newly-formed political action committee recorded two monster donations on Friday. As WW reported earlier, Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle and John von Schlegell, managing partner at Endeavour Capital formed Oregonians for Higher Education Excellence at the end of March.

Columbia Distributing Chairman Ed Maletis initially seeded the PAC with $65,000 and on Friday two wealthy Duck supporters, Boyle and former University of Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny chipped in $62,500 and $65,000 respectively.

In an earlier interview, Boyle said the new group is interested in seeing the legislature and the Oregon University System cede autonomy more quickly to the system's seven campuses, which have seen their financial contributions from the state shrink far faster than their authority to govern themselves has grown.

He added that the group hopes the Legislature will accomplish that devolution of authority but the PAC's money could be used to promote a ballot measure if lawmakers fail to act.

Smithsonian Magazine: Bringing Back the Olympia Oyster

This great piece from the June issue of Smithsonian Magazine highlights the role that our client, Taylor Shellfish, played in the decades-long comeback of Mark Twain's favorite food.

When America's favorite storyteller lived in San Francisco, nothing struck his fancy like a heaping plate of the Pacific Northwest delicacy. 
 
Read it here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Decades-Long-Comeback-of-Mark-Twains-Favorite-Food.html

Idaho Statesman promotes "The Origins of Social Security" Discussion

Social Security – the lasting legacy of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal – was controversial in the 1930's and remains so to this day.

TONIGHT at 7 p.m. at the Boise Public Library, our own Marc Johnson will offer his take on the Depression-era politics that drove FDR and the Congress to act in 1935 and discuss why the decades-old program remains controversial. Be there.

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