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Mentally ill son is gone, but struggle not forgotten

March 25, 1999
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The Oregonian, March 25, 1999. Not available elsewhere online. It was late on a Thursday night, May 1, two years ago. The 31-year-old man walked into Washington Park carrying two heavy containers of gasoline. He asked a man for his help getting up a hill. The man saw the gasoline containers and said no. The […]

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There’s plenty of blame to spread around

August 30, 1994
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By columnist Margie Boule. From the Oregonian, August 30, 1994 [This column refers to the police shooting death of Gale Moody – MHAP eds.] Fielding phone calls last week, I felt as if I were back in college, responding to criticism of our student anti-war protest. “Your column about the mentally ill woman who was […]

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Police Action: There Must Be A Better Way

August 25, 1994
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From The Oregonian, August 25, 1994 By Margie Boule. He was the kind of man you notice from a distance and something inside you tenses up. He was old, but to me he didn’t seem old and harmless. He seemed old and menacing. Suddenly, he stepped in front of me on the sidewalk and stopped. […]

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“She Begs For Help, And She Ends Up Dead”

August 23, 1994
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The Oregonian, August 23, 1994 By Margie Boule. Mary Bradley heard the young woman in the Fred Meyer store before she saw her. Mary had just gone through the produce department, gently squeezing the peaches, wrestling broccoli into a plastic bag, and was headed over to pick up some cheese, when she heard someone yelling. […]

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