by Ty Davison | May 21, 2025 | News & Commentary
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes | The Guardian: On the face of it, mental-health lessons in schools seemed like an excellent idea. Young people’s mental health is worse now than it was in the...
by Ty Davison | May 16, 2025 | News & Commentary
Oregon bill would speed up process to rename locations with offensive titles • Oregon Capital Chronicle: The Oregon Historical Society has already identified 107 locations across Oregon with offensive names that remain unchanged. Many of them include derogatory terms...
by Ty Davison | May 16, 2025 | News & Commentary
I am a believer in speaker-centered communication, which is based in traditional rhetorical theory rooted in Aristotelian ethos/logos/pathos, Enlightenment liberalism, and First Amendment jurisprudence. I am dismayed that this view has fallen from favor in recent...
by Ty Davison | May 15, 2025 | News & Commentary
Multnomah DA will boycott Portland judge, blocking her from trying serious criminal cases – oregonlive.com: In the lawyerly equivalent to a slap in the face, Multnomah County prosecutors will no longer argue serious criminal cases in the courtroom of Circuit...
by Ty Davison | May 13, 2025 | News & Commentary, Sports
Mavericks fans rebelled after Luka Dončić was traded. An improbable win in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes should ease the pain | CNN: Dallas Mavericks fans have spent the last few months in something akin to open rebellion against the team’s front office after franchise...
by Ty Davison | May 12, 2025 | News & Commentary
Car Seats as Contraception by Jordan Nickerson, David H. Solomon :: SSRN: Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many...
