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Greetings, Here’s some stuff you might like. When the Levee Breaks It sure feels like the momentum for reopening schools to in-person instruction has increased in recent weeks. The New York Times ran a story about very few kids in its open public schools have contracted Covid, even suggesting that the results “could serve as an…
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The impact on the presidential race is surprisingly hard to determine, at least for me. My first thought was this hurts Trump and, if I had to put money on it, I think that’s still the most likely outcome. He is in quarantine with a month to go before election day, while millions of Americans are already voting. In Campaigns 101, they teach you that’s not ideal.
Those suffering from the shutdowns are, for now, overwhelmingly at the lower end of the income spectrum in Oregon.
