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Not yet subscribed to the Oregon Roundup? Change that and your life here. It’s free and all I need is your email address, which I’ll only use to send you this weekly(ish) email, for better or worse. To the Frozen: We Oregonians, and many of you in other states and countries*, are subject to renewed Covid-19…
Unhappy Friday, For your second Oregon Roundup of the week, we’re temporarily returning to Friday. It’s Friday the 13th, the weather in Oregon is miserable even by usual November standards, and Governor Kate Brown just announced a two-week statewide “freeze” in an attempt to blunt a surge of Covid-19 cases and related hospitalizations. Apparently there…
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…
Not yet subscribed to the Oregon Roundup? Sign up now to receive this weekly(ish) email and nothing else, for better or worse. All you need to do is enter your email address, which I won’t give to anyone else. Heya, Here’s some stuff you might like. The vast majority of states have eschewed Oregon’s statewide partial school…
Some school districts don’t want to open even though the state would let them.
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.
Football and Father Luke Good intentions, when acted upon rashly, often lead to bad outcomes. Those who intend to purge racism from America’s institutions should not drive from view or from acceptable public discourse instances in our history in which racism was beaten back, just because those instances necessarily require the depiction of racists who lost….
