by Ty Davison | May 28, 2025 | News & Commentary
\Beginning in 2027, Senate Bill 551 will ensure that retailers and restaurants can’t offer any form of plastic bags to customers at check out. That’s already true for most single-use plastic bags because of a bill lawmakers passed in 2019. But the law left open the...
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...
