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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…
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Not yet subscribed to the Oregon Roundup? Fix that by clicking here. It’s free and all you’ll get from me is this weekly(ish) email. I’ll never sell or give your email address to anyone. Hi, Did you really think the 2020 presidential election would be definitively settled on Election Day? If this year has taught us…
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.
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 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…
