Officer Don DuPay, April 1961-April 1978 By Don DuPay, edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy Looking back on my long and eventful career with the Portland Police Bureau, I have come to the conclusion that street cops in the late ‘50’s and ‘60’s were tougher than the cops are on the…

By Don DuPay, edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy, published to public media July 14, 2022. I am writing this short essay to inform the citizens of Portland, Oregon of a serious pattern of criminal activity that is occurring in the current DA’s office. In the 13th century, under English rule…

May 2012 If you’d like to contact Don DuPay, you can find him at facebook here… or you can email him at his PSU email, at ddupay@ymail.com Dictionary meaning of Fantasy; Imagination — illusion or “a product of the imagination.” To fantasize is to imagine day or night dreams. But…

Pray for peace! Peace is the answer! Published online January 28, 2017 Peace is the fervent mantra of like-minded people in America. Peace, peace, peace! If only we could have an outbreak of peace, everything would be better in the world socially, economically and culturally. But is that really what…

By Don DuPay Edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy Authors Note: I have never written about this time in my life, until now. My wife Theresa has encouraged me for years to write this story, but I put it off for many reasons. Now, as I get older, I feel the…

By Don DuPay Edited by Theresa Griffin Kennedy The first tenet of problem solving is to understand what the problem is. Portland is suffering from this lack of understanding in what almost everyone in the city is calling our “homeless crisis,” particularly city leaders like Ted Wheeler and JoAnn Hardesty. The crisis here…

The Last Idyllic Summer of my Youth Postwar1947 By Don DuPay The dirt at the side of the driveway was the best dirt for making little roads for my toy cars and trucks. It was a brown clay I could dig into with a spoon, Aunt Beth let me fashion…

I miss drinking. I miss the delicious taste of whisky mixed with 7-Up. I miss the taste of an ice cold bottle of Beck’s Dark on a hot day. Or even on a cold day. I miss the taste of beer. I miss the buzz I got from a drink…

MAGIC, MYSTERIES, MYTHS and MISERY; The bible revisited Published online July 12, 2021 The bible opens with… “In the beginning,” so this is where I will start. I am reading from the King James Version, which is just one of the baffling 2,500 different interpretations of the same book! So…