There's panic in tech companies and in universities amongst those who were working on natural language processing. The success of GPT-4 is generating despair in those studying something else.
The OHA doesn't approve of Legacy Mt Hood Medical Center closing their birthing center, even though it just has to happen because there is no staffing. Hospitals are finding it hard to recruit nurses because Portland has a reputation for crime and homelessness, and no one wants to get the vax anymore. So it's personnel shortages for the foreseeable future.
ODOT is officially doing away with the permit system to see the waterfalls on the Old Columbia River Highway. Finally.