Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State," is published by Oregon State University Press. He resides in Bellingham and can be reached at floydmckay@comcast.net.
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