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53 More COVID-19 Deaths in Oregon

Oregon reports 1,935 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, and 53 new deaths.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - There are 53 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 4,803; and 1,935 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19, according to the Oregon Health Authority as of 12:01 a.m. today.

This brings the state total of cases to 380,091.

Holidays at the Oregon Capitol Continues with Lovely Decor and Electronic Exhibit

Live musical performances will not take place this year.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Holidays at the Capitol, an annual tradition, kicks off Wednesday, Dec. 1st starting at 8 a.m. and continues through Thursday, Dec. 23rd, 2021, at 5 p.m. The Oregon State Capitol is located at 900 Court St. NE, Salem, Oregon.

Visitors will be able to enjoy holiday décor in the Rotunda and outside of the House and Senate Chambers. There will be an electronic exhibit with stories of past holiday experiences and messages from select sponsors and choirs.

ODOT to Receive $1+ Billion in Transportation Funding

Oregon Transportation Commission Chair Bob Van Brocklin releases statement on passage of federal infrastructure package

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Oregon Department of Transportation will receive over $1 billion dollars in additional transportation funding as part of the federal infrastructure package.

The money will go toward projects around the state that will benefit drivers, transit riders, cyclists and pedestrians, help maintain roads and bridges, and address climate change.

The Value of What`s Not There

The value of energy not used, money not spent, time not wasted, water resources not consumed, cannot be underestimated.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - We need data to pinpoint when and where human-caused emissions happen, and what sources are driving them.

Data such as these help pivot from accounting to action.

74 More Oregon Lives Claimed by COVID-19

The rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is four times higher than in vaccinated people.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - There are 74 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 4,543. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) also reported 1,211 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today, bringing the state total to 371,001.

There were 2,025 breakthrough cases, accounting for 24.6% of all cases. 4.4% of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 1% have died.

A World Without Money

Money is the oxygen on which the fires of global warming keep burning.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - And climate change begins . . . “Three or four thousand years ago the gods began a migration from the lakes, forests, rivers, and mountains into the sky, becoming the imperial overlords of nature rather than its essence.”

So writes Charles Eisenstein in Sacred Economics.

The Problem with Vaccine Mandates

Dismissing people as foolish is not a good strategy.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - I live near Middlefield Ohio, the center of the fourth largest Amish settlement in America. I regularly see the horse and buggy operations on the road. Who am I to tell these people that I know better about how they should live than they do?

I know its complicated. More than five million people have died from this pandemic (747,000 in the U.S.).

Virginia & New Jersey Gubernatorial Elections

The voters see a party in disarray.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - Democrats are their own worst enemies.

Consider that the Trump-endorsed Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia gubernatorial race and New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy’s race for reelection, supposedly a slam dunk win, turned into a nail biter.

The Carving Shed

I began to realize that for my tribal friends, abuse was an almost constant companion.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - In one school of thought, positive social outcomes are judged as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities.
We believe, in the so called rational universe that we supposedly inhabit, effects must have causes, causes must have effects.

But what if they don't, what then?

Israel Approves New Settlements
in West Bank

More Israeli "settlers" push into land that is not their own.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - On October 27, 2021, Israel approved about 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a day after the United States issued its strongest rebuke yet of such construction.

These are the first settlements approved under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu in June.