Douglas ‘Michael’ Leander 1950-2025

NW Examiner’s first, and funniest, columnist

Michael Leander contributed zany columns to the first three editions of the NW Examiner in 1986, but he was never replaced. You can’t replace the funniest, most interesting man in the world, an assessment shared by many who knew him.

Leander died in Eugene on Feb. 7 at age 74, after fighting off a blood disorder for four years that was supposed to kill h…