What city or state has been improved by decriminalizing marijuana?

In 3 months, only one person went into inpatient detox. Multnomah County spent $3.8M in taxpayer dollars to turn this temporary location into the Coordinated Care Pathway Center. Since it opened, a $4.3M state grant has been funding operations. tinyurl.com/y3by4kud

While we often cannot control the external circumstances in our lives, we are in full control of our reaction to them and our next steps. .Os Guinness says to “look to the past with gratitude and humility, but always work towards the future with hope and energy.”

Minneapolis adopted most every "progressive" law: $15 min wage, housing subsidies, "green" goals, lots of school spending... Despite all that, the city's racial inequality is about the worst in the country. Government makes it worse by disincentivizing work, says @LewisForMN:

“We have to be unapologetic about our socialism,” says Zohran Mamdani, likely next mayor in NYC. But he should apologize! Socialism ALWAYS fails. MY last video covered some of his bad ideas, but sadly, he's got more. Here’s Part 2:

If I said that it was important to “preserve the culture” of some primitive jungle tribe in the Amazon, everyone would nod in agreement. But if I say it’s important to preserve the culture of a small town in rural America, I’m denounced as a bigot. For Americans, the only culture

Debt is the slavery of the free.

But don't worry... legislative progressives (aka Democrats,... and maybe some Republicans) are at then ready to give them MORE money through higher taxes in the special session starting 29-August. - Accountability First; ODOT must prove itself - Then maybe, maybe, more money

Amen! music.apple.com/us/album/never…

So needed!!!

Government directed housing is always slower and more expensive than unleashing the free market.

This morning I was on Shaping The Basin with .Klamath Co. Chamber ‘s Exective Director Heather Harter. Great time! Looking forward to when this comes out.

Government’s one trait it excels at: Spending other people’s money inefficiently and ineffectively. #NoNewTaxes

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The trades are a viable career path, and students who train in the trades deserve to be on an even footing with those who pursue college studies.

If only Oregon were well positioned to take advantage of and benefit from the repatriation of opportunities like this…

Oregon doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Our $140B budget could fix roads without raising taxes. Republicans proved it—but Governor Tina Kotek refused. Now she's calling a special session on Labor Day weekend with the same Democrat “solution”: you pay more.

What is interesting is as incomes rise people tend to vote more left. They vote in higher taxes for schools, for parks, for preschools, for the homeless and for roads because they care. Then at some point they wonder why it is so expensive to live where they do. Because they