I remember the weekend when I first brought Merry to meet my family in Oregon. My parents took us to a college basketball game, and it was raining hard when we arrived at the arena.

This agricultural battle is global in scope, but one place where the tension is most tangible - and where its consequences are most concrete - is the valley along Oregon's Willamette River.

Oregon, however, is also popular and it has high income taxes.

While the Muslim Community Center and its mosque may have been the first of their kind in Oregon, they no longer are alone.

Obama campaigned Saturday in the Northwestern city of Bend, Oregon, and again said he would end the Iraq war as soon as possible.