by Ty Davison | Feb 25, 2021 | News & Commentary
When the “Violence” Isn’t Violent – Persuasion: This reconception of violence is more than another shift in the English language. It’s a series of deliberate word choices used to equate nonphysical offenses to physical harm. Too often,...
by Ty Davison | Feb 24, 2021 | News & Commentary
Most of us knew the F-35 was a failure years ago. The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed: The U.S. Air Force’s top officer wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of Cold War-vintage...
by Ty Davison | Feb 24, 2021 | News & Commentary
To retain teachers of color, an Oregon bill takes aim at schools’ ‘first in, last out’ layoff policies – oregonlive.com: Kotek’s solution would rewrite state rules that dictate who’s on the chopping block if and when school...
by Ty Davison | Feb 21, 2021 | News & Commentary
This Oregonian story has a lot of good background information on Portland General Electric and the challenges facing them (and us). Notable highlights: The power outages experienced in the Willamette Valley over the past week are nothing like those experienced...
by Ty Davison | Feb 3, 2021 | News & Commentary
A Union Head Says Portland Teachers Didn’t Ask to Cut in Line for Vaccines—and They Won’t Automatically Return to Classrooms in Gratitude – Willamette Week: Last month, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown propelled schoolteachers and staff to the front of...
by Ty Davison | Feb 3, 2021 | News & Commentary
Some states are racing ahead of others with their covid vaccine rollouts. Their secret? Keeping it simple: Yet if there’s one thing the states moving most quickly have in common, it is that they have tried to bring at least some measure of order and simplicity...
