Oregon slashes Amtrak rates in bid to compete with freeway drivers - At $17 from Portland to Eugene, it's cheaper than a bus ticket bikeportland.org/2022/12/27/ore…

If he: -Changes his entire look for you -Travels 1,900 miles upstream to chase you -Procreates and dies -Replenishes an entire ecosystem with his carcass He's not your valentine, he's a Chinook salmon

A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second mass shooting I’ve lived through. We can no longer allow this to happen. We can no longer be complacent.”

We are excited to share John Karl Scholz, a distinguished economist, professor, and higher education leader, has been named the 19th president of the University of Oregon. uoregon.edu/president-19?u…

Introducing our new “Exploding Whales” threads for the 2023 season 🐳🧨#RootedHere

in hindsight, it's actually kind of funny that Justice Thomas said he likes hanging out at Walmart parking lots bc that's the sort of thing you'd say if you've never actually done anything normal and needed to come up with something you think normal people do

This is too much. He just turned six. It was his birthday. And now he is an orphan. He doesn’t even have his little brother anymore. My God.

A cada rodada fora de casa uma surpresa desagradável. E foram muitas nessa temporada. Desejos de morte, boneco enforcado, muitos gritos criminosos... Tudo registrado. Mas o discurso sempre cai em “casos isolados”, “um torcedor”. Não, não são casos isolados. São episódios

Zero shade for the New Yorkers dealing with this - it's awful - but it's wild to see the way East Coast media is suddenly doing wall-to-wall coverage of something that's been reality on the West Coast for a decade.

After weeks of OR Republicans boycotting to kill an abortion bill and Dems insisting they won’t touch it, talks appear to be underway about finding a middle ground. Any successful deal will likely hinge on one key provision. From Lauren Dake #orleg opb.org/article/2023/0…

Somebody simply has to write the ultimate catch-all essay on disruptive, libertarian, private-sector-touting entrepreneurs simply begging and demanding for state intervention at the end of their journeys. (This is the Titan sub company's adviser.)

The tale of two sessions. #orleg #orpol

It is not normal to live like this

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Death Valley at 1 am this morning was a mind-boggling 120°F (49°C), before bottoming out at 105°F (40.6°C) at 7 am. One of the hottest nights in Earth's recorded history.

Congratulations to Nayantara Arora for being named UO's first Rhodes Scholar since 2007! 👏 Nayantara is among 32 U.S. recipients of the prestigious fellowships this year, which fund two to three years of study at Oxford and are the oldest international fellowship award in the

Explosive report from Nick Budnick & Christian Wihtol in The Lund Report this morning: Hundreds of millions of dollars are being siphoned out of Oregon Health Plan, the state’s health program for low-income Oregonians. thelundreport.org/content/hundre…

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination