23 February 2023

The city of Portland continues to deteriorate.  The Commonwealth Building downtown nears foreclosure as occupancy is down to around 52%.  City parks will be darker as decrepit light fixtures are removed.  Replacement is uncertain - they'll have to find funding. 

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Two Portland Walmarts are shuttering, leading to a loss of about 580 jobs.  When you can't even keep Walmart happy...

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Why are lawmakers in Salem in a tizzy over the coronavirus?  In 2023? Didn't they all get vaxxed?

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Measure 110 should never have been passed.  But whenever you put drug legalization on the ballot, you can be sure that Oregonians will vote yes.  Now Linn County is suffering for it.  And there goes $300 million of marijuana tax money - down the drain.

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"We have made science fiction come true".  It may not really be a time machine, but if it can make me younger, I'll take it.

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The recent snowy weather has turned I-5 into a truck parking lot. What a nightmare.


Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is sponsoring a bill to allow physicians to own hospitals.  Physicians were barred from owning hospitals in the ACA.  While some might think that physicians would just get rich from self-referrals, in actuality, it could be worked so that people still had choice.  But one major benefit is that it would allow physicians to have a better stake in healthcare.  At present, physicians are relegated to being employees, always working for someone else, and always being beholden to rules set by some private equity group or religious denomination.  Allowing a physician to direct how healthcare should be run, would be a game changer in improving healthcare.  Good on Sen. Lankford to support it.  This might decrease some of the burnout and healthcare shortages that people are reporting.

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