Mind you there seems to be enough money to send another 20,000 troops to Iraq. Of course there is no connection between the two.
I have been to Oregon and the Shakespeare Festival is in Ashland - the biggest in the world I believe after Stratford on Avon.
And there was a fine brewery at Rogue. In fact there were fine breweries all over Oregon. How can people be expected to find these if they cannot borrow a map from the library?