HearingItFromHollander

My grandfather wrote for The Register Guard for thirty-nine years. He retired well before I was born but I can remember countless classes in which my teachers would bring him up and ask if we had any relation. At the time I didn’t really care, I was in grade school and I didn’t read the newspaper—aside from the comics of course. Even though this was the case, I found some pride in knowing my grandfather was a local celebrity—you can even find a cutout of him displayed at the Eugene Airport. It wasn’t really until recently, early this year when helping move my grandparents into a retirement home that I really started to care and put much thought into it as I came across some of his old stuff. As I dug deeper and looked into The Register Guard and newspapers in general, I began to notice the vast changes to newspaper stories and quality. This is in part due to two major reasons. The first of these has to do with progressing technology. Many people now get their news online, be it...

  I started watching Slow Horses in 2023 when season three of the show was released. Since then I have fallen in love with the show and when the final episode for the fifth season came out  on October 29, 2025 it was safe to say that I was watching it. The show is a spy thriller with plenty of mystery, suspense and drama to go along with it and one of the top performing shows on Apple TV+. Season 5 Episode 6 was titled “Scars” and wrapped up the season as the character Claude Whelan (James Callis), First Desk of MI5 panics for answers after MI5 has been shut down by terrorists. The terrorists demand 100 million in reparations for their country, Libya—although it’s important to note that they are not working for Libya. If they don’t get the money, they threaten to attack a place of worship. Having no other choice, Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), MI5’s Second Desk transfers 100 million to the terrorists. In the meantime the Slow Horses, MI5’s “undesirables” track down t...