Yesterday's edits disappeared. I don't know what happened. I'll attempt to recreate it.
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Astoria is planning a major Goonies celebration. Brings back memories. I've been there recently, and I can tell things are ramping up for next Thursday.
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Oregon universities are losing the indirect cost funding that they were expecting. It's so funny – people put in DEI terminology into their grant applications because in the Biden administration, those words were music to the ears of NIH. Now they are poison.
Portland State’s engineering professor Bob Bass said the words diversity, equity and anti-racism appeared frequently in the titles and descriptions of canceled research programs.
OK now this is offensive:
You think we got to where we are just because of bias? You think maybe it was because research done by white or Asian males might be because of the scientific quality of the work? At the mission-critical end of science, it's too late to be DEI.Those likely took the largest cuts because the programs often expanded access to science learning, targeting underrepresented students, Bass said, in fields that remain overwhelmingly white, Asian and male.
LendingTree thinks that Portland has the worst housing crisis outlook. Yeah, I can see that. It won't improve with the current leadership, including the mayor. All they know how to do is to find ways to dump more money onto existing failures.
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