Those suffering from the shutdowns are, for now, overwhelmingly at the lower end of the income spectrum in Oregon.
Why is the bad economy not front page news?
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Category: Oregon Roundup
Fires: causes and partial solutions
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Because this is 2020, the moment of astonished mourning in the wake of deadly wildfires in Oregon and along the west coast lasted exactly a moment, before the important people started fighting about the cause of the fires and, more importantly, what that says about for whom we should vote for president.
Rebelling against oneself – Oregon’s pretend revolutionaries
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The million dollar questions: What was the real target of her protest? The system of which she is a prominent part?
Some school districts don’t want to open
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Some school districts don’t want to open even though the state would let them.
COVID-19 is in retreat, for now
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Have you noticed that COVID-19 hasn’t been in the news as much over the past few weeks? Friends, draw close so I may whisper to you that which is verboten in polite company: that’s because the disease is in retreat.
2020: The year of government failure
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The United States of America is a rejection of government overreach, or at least it was.
ICE ICE Baby
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On Wednesday, agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka, ICE) detained two men, apparently immigrants, in Bend.
The courthouse
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The courthouse I don’t remember if I knew who then-U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield was before I started college at Willamette University in the Fall of 1993. I was, relatively speaking, politically aware at the age of 18, but that’s not a particularly high bar. To the degree I was unaware of Hatfield before going to Willamette,…
Reality bites
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Reality bites Increasingly, Americans hold a view of reality that comports with their political leanings. Polls consistently show that members of the president’s party think the economy and country are doing better than members of the other party. When a president of the other party is elected, the sides flip, even though the economy has…
The dream of the ’70s is alive in Portland
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The dream of the ’70s is alive in Portland If I were to ask you to describe the Portland City Council in relation to an historical figure, “Nixonian” probably wouldn’t leap immediately to mind, but it should. In the early 1970s, Nixon instituted price and wage controls throughout the economy in an effort to combat…