To the Editor: Like thousands of you, I’m worried about my family’s financial state due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The busy signal at the unemployment office is my mortal enemy. A few days ago, I posted to social media that our family lost all of…
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” said Samuel Johnson. And as it is with men, so it is with nations. Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, projected some…
Keep it up, Oregon. Our social distancing, mask wearing and hand washing is working. It is good to see people distancing themselves from others when they have to go out to the store or the pharmacy. As of early this week the state had a…
We humans have been roaming the Earth for about 200,000 years. Some ancient civilizations, such as the Incas, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians and the empires of China, made great strides in a multitude of human endeavors, even having performed brain surgery. It is not known whether…
In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference call on COVID-19 and warned, as The New York Times reported, that 160 million to 214 million Americans could become infected and 200,000 to 1.7 million might die. On March 3, the World…
On April 24, Disney will release Black Widow, the twenty-fourth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Two months later, Wonder Woman 1984, the ninth movie in the DC Extended Universe, will hit theaters courtesy of Warner Bros. Although such film and TV adaptations of comic book properties…
To the Editor: The Trump Administration is rolling back environmental programs and safeguards on a fairly regular basis. Our state legislature could step in to manage and oversee the voids that are being created by the roll backs. But if there isn’t the political will,…
Governor Kate Brown, House Speaker Tina Kotek, Senate President Peter Courtney and I agree on at least one thing: the 2020 legislative session was a failure. Regarding how and why the session failed; we have extremely differing views. Just three bills made it to the…
One symptom of the coronavirus outbreak—at least for me—has been nasty flashbacks to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. At the time I was a policy adviser to President George W. Bush, visiting New York City for meetings. The day after the storm hit, I recall…