"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out" Interesting perspective on why it's so hard to maintain long-lasting relationships. The basic message is: when injuries occur, make sure it heals, and doesn't just scar.
Killing hundreds of bills. Derailing Kotek's agenda. The Republican boycott continues. I hope that it prevents more ideas like this. Or ideas like rank-choice voting to be put on the ballot. I don't think that most people can explain how this system works, much less understand it themselves. It's definitely works in favor of candidates with more ludicrous ideas, and works against Republicans, who always tend to split the vote in elections.
Could the zoster virus be responsible for dementia? The indirect evidence from vaccination looks very suggestive of this. Best get the shingles vaccine.
Past the point of no return? Bad news for downtown Portland commercial real estate. "..somewhere between 30 to 40 buildings, office buildings, downtown that
are distressed, in the process of going back to lenders right now, and
there's not much of a market for investment downtown."