Not good. There may be a LOT of lead in Portland's soils due to degraded telecom cables. Kids play around in the dirt all the time.
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Google is for old people. I use a filtered form of Google, and the results are still fairly decent. Younger folks want answers directly, and use ChatGPT or Perplexity instead. That's fine as long as you check for hallucinations. Search is beginning to get interesting again, as reliance on Google is proving to be disappointing. Bing may be as good or better now.
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Oregon economist talks about Oregon's Doom Loop. If Oregon doesn't change its ways, there will be no recovery. The homeless industrial complex is Oregon's Ukraine, where money keeps getting dumped, with little return.
Rampant drug use has a lot to do with Oregon's decline:
Multilingual learners have the poorest test results. "Multililngual learners" – that's a new way of describing them.
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