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“Republic Airlines was a publicly-held, Minneapolis-based carrier providing air transportation to the traveling and shipping public. It was created in 1979 by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways; in 1980 it acquired Hughes Airwest. North Central Airlines was established in December, 1952, when Wisconsin Central Airlines officially changed its name to North Central Airlines. Wisconsin Central was founded in 1944 and served communities in Wisconsin, Illinois, upper Michigan,…

Visiting the doctor is a task that no one looks forward to, but everyone does. This time during a doctor visit the nurse asks to draw blood. The nurse says “we will send the blood to the lab; it’s routine, we will call when the results come in.” One week later there is a call from the doctor who solemnly says he would like to meet with them in person. Upon arriving at the office the doctor says “I am sorry, but the results indicate terminal cancer.” Once the shock, and paralyzing fear subsides,…

Constitution, with the support of the State of Virginia, in 1789 (n.p.). Throughout the decades, there have been numerous cases where state and national governments have intervened with religious associated situations. For example, on April 17, 1990, two Oregon drug…

Major League Soccer action continues as the Portland Timbers (11-8-6, 39 points) battle the Houston Dynamo (8-9-7, 31 points) at the former’s Providence Park in Portland, Oregon on Friday, August 21. The regular season match is important for both teams who are trying to position themselves in the tight Western Conference playoff race. Portland is flimsy at the no. 4 spot in the West as only one or two points separate no. 3 Sporting Kansas City (40 points) and no. 5 FC Dallas (38 points) in…

The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit is found in Washington, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Montana, and Idaho. The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit is located in a biodiversity hotspot. The biodiversity hotspot it is located in is California floristic province. The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit occupy big sagebrush where. It lives in burrows in soft deep soils in areas such as alluvial fans. They eat fresh fruit and vegetables. One reason the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit is endangered is because it is…

United States history from 1800 to 1859 was demonstrating national greatness and national unity. Yet, by 1860 North and South were so polarized that the lower South seceded immediately upon Lincoln’s election. Historians argue that divisions or sectionalism between the free and slave states led to the civil war. However, there is evidence that divisions were not limited to just the North and South, but divisions within and between political parties, and differing memories Americans felt long…

James Knox Polk is regarded as the first dark horse president and was considered the last of the Jacksonian president to sit in the White House. He is regarded by many as the last strong president until the Civil War. James K Polk was born on November 2, 1795 in rural North Carolina where his family had moved from Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of ten children and his father always groomed him to take over the family farm but he proved too sickly and weak to handle the strenuous work. In 1806,…

The financial aid I receive each school year through scholarships, grants, and federal loans to attend Oregon State University in total comes to $31,415 out of the total cost of attendance, which is $43,896. After subtracting the amount of aid given from the total cost of attendance a year, the total left to pay out of pocket comes to $12,481 a year. The financial aid programs from which I receive aid from include the following: EOP beaver Scholarship ($900), Golden State Scholarship ($5,000),…

lethal dose of a medication upon request by a terminally ill patient. The law defines terminally ill as someone whom is expected to live less than six months, states that the person must be deemed competent, and also states that the person must be an Oregon resident. Another requirement of this law is that the diagnosis must be reaffirmed by a second physician, as well as the competency of the patient, and to make sure the two oral and one written requests for euthanasia are all voluntary. The…

marijuana industry, which is raking up billions of dollars. Washington and Oregon just sales products of marijuana, but Alaska and the District of Columbia are fully legalization of marijuana. Washington expected to have at least $150 million in taxes alone for the year of 2016, last year dispensaries sold an estimated $257 million of marijuana products. Oregon and Washington market averages about the same amount each year. Oregon just have a better way of dealing with the substance and how they…