by Ty Davison | Aug 8, 2023 | News & Commentary
Portland police chief to city cops: Stop telling residents DA Mike Schmidt won’t prosecute crimes – oregonlive.com: Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell urged all cops and non-uniformed employees working for the Portland Police Bureau to stop spreading the dubious...
by Ty Davison | Jul 19, 2023 | News & Commentary
Oregon Tried a Bold Experiment in Drug Policy. Early Results Aren’t Encouraging. – The Atlantic: But three years later, with rising overdoses and delays in treatment funding, even some of the measure’s supporters now believe that the policy needs to be changed....
by Ty Davison | Jul 13, 2023 | News & Commentary
California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse | CNN: California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless...
by Ty Davison | Jun 5, 2023 | News & Commentary
Newspaper letters to the editor, like many social media sites, are frequently a disheartening exercise in discovering a none-too-bright local populace. Newspaper readers tend to show a bit more intellect with missives occasionally even reaching erudite, something that...
by Ty Davison | May 28, 2023 | News & Commentary
Jan. 6 Capitol Attack: The Rioters’ Legal Reckoning, Visualized – WSJ: A federal judge on Thursday handed down the stiffest punishment to date stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol when he imposed an 18-year prison sentence on Oath...
