As I try to better understand Douglas County and what makes it tick, I stumbled across this little flap over the Oregon school mascots. If I’m understanding this correctly, the state school board — and don’t get me started about the cost-versus-value of multiple layers of school bureaucracy — decided last May to ban Native American mascots in schools across the state. An estimated 15 of Oregon’s public schools use some sort of Native American mascot or nickname and will have until July of 2017 to make the change. For starters, I would have assumed that the state Board of …