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If you new you were going to take a pay cut because a recession was coming, wouldn’t you start cutting your spending in advance? Kate is rolling the dice that Oregon is going to get a federal bailout: shouldn’t she be aggressively having her agencies begin cutting 20%? https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/oregons-budget-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-bad-news-on-every-front.html Baker County reopening plan goes to Gov: good luck https://www.bendbulletin.com/coronavirus/baker-county-submits-coronavirus-reopening-plan-to-oregon-governor/article_d0ee1572-c7df-55c9-b959-a207206f0c14.html Should local governments force AG Rosenblum to put up or shut […]

MC county creates specific space against whiteness: should be challenged in Federal court: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/amid-coronavirus-crisis-oregon-county-creates-segregated-safe-space Take your own poll: do people in your world support the shutdown continuing? WW has DHM poll that says 82% of Oregonians do. https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/04/22/new-polling-from-shows-that-82-percent-of-oregonians-support-stay-home-order/ Left leaning group sponsored the poll of course: https://oregonvbc.org/blog/ Did you watch the first round of the NFL draft? Amazing numbers of Americans did, so is the false meme Emplymemt dept needs […]

Will constitutional Sheriff’s in OR step up to protect our rights during the lockdown like in WA and other states? https://www.greenwichtime.com/opinion/article/Constitutionalist-sheriffs-won-t-enforce-15220593.php McConnell says he wont’ solve state problems they created for themselves: tough love that is sensible right? https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/22/mcconnell-not-interested-in-revenue-replacement-for-state-governments-or-fixing-their-pensions/ Kate pledges to save small business by taxing small business: What? https://oregoncatalyst.com/47132-gov-pledges-tax-businesses-customers.html Kate doubles down on hurting business as she finally decides to talk to business: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/hundreds-of-oregon-businesses-questioned-brown-about-lifting-coronavirus-restrictions-fulfilling-unemployment-benefits-and-delaying-new-corporate-tax.html Kate’s world: Employment dept […]

Who’d thunk it? Kayne West and Chick-fil-A team up along with Anthem Blue Cross to deliver sandwiches/hand sanitizer to provide food to over 11,000 people per day in Los Angeles: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/21/kanye-west-teams-with-christian-nonprofit-los-angeles-dream-center-to-provide-300000-meals-during-pandemic/ Idaho farmer gives away millions of potatoes for free because he can’t sell them: Dairy’s are dumping milk that could be given away for free so should Kate suspend raw milk rules and allow people to get for free? […]

More data from Professor Hinkley: it affects you. https://www.professorhinkley.com/blog/coronavirus-isnt-killing-oregons-economy-the-lockdown-is-1 Kate’s plan to re open Oregon: is it realistic? https://democratherald.com/news/local/brown-begins-to-map-out-plans-to-reopen-the-state/article_a8b2ec02-2e6a-55f6-9923-486502c60551.html More stories of unused testing: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/thousands-of-coronavirus-tests-going-unused-each-week-in-oregon/283-42fc54be-507e-47f7-a8bd-335d32200d51 If Oregon adds presumed virus deaths to official toll, will that delay reopening state? https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/04/19/oregon-may-add-presumed-cases-of-covid-19-to-the-official-death-toll/ Kip Kinkel get out of jail early bill strikes again: where’s the justice? https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/04/not-even-judge-is-happy-with-short-sentence-given-to-oregon-teen-guilty-of-sadistic-sexual-murder.html SCOTUS stikes down Oregon’s non unanimous jury law: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/04/oregons-nonunanimous-jury-system-struck-down-by-us-supreme-court.html

Kate lays out her conditions for reopening the economy but it lacks two things: advice from business and compassion for the mental health of people. https://www.opb.org/news/article/kate-brown-reopen-oregon-unemployment-budget-covid-19-interview/ Testing in Oregon could expand immediately, but Kate won’t allow it even though it’s one of her conditions to open the economy: one phone call could change it: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-testing-could-expand-in-oregon-right-now-instead-tests-sit-idle-amid-restrictive-guidelines.html Professor Hinkley is back with long but stunning post about the un necessary lockdown and […]