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The final precipitation data for 2022 is in: December 8.39" UP 170% from "normal" Water year to 12/31: 12.63" UP 68% from "normal" Year: 24.88" UP 29% from "normal" The data was collected at a private residence in Ashland. The gauge location is @2400' on the SW side of town. "Normal" is to be taken as an approximation only, because …
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They must join with House Democrats (and House Dems with them) to elect a non-MAGA Speaker Source: The last exit ramp for non-MAGA Republicans
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Does Elon Musk Have a Right to Destroy Twitter? You break it, you own it. That’s what I was told as a child. But for today’s billionaires, it seems like the opposite is true. “You own it, you can break it” — at least if you’re rich enough. Just look at Elon Musk. He paid a fortune for Twitter and …
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How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of. In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney who would go on to become a Supreme Court justice, to draft a memo on the state of the country. Powell’s …
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The Little Secret About Corporate Profits Have you noticed that when workers get better wages, the media blames them for rising prices, but when corporations rake in record profits, there’s silence? That’s because corporate profits aren’t tracked nearly as closely as worker wages. And the reason why comes down to power. Every month we get measurements of prices, jobs, and …
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Kelp absorbs carbon dioxide and has high nutritional value, but it is under threat from rising temperatures, pollution and invasive species
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There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa Fowers and Chris Alcantara, for WP’s Department of Data, asked the natural questions that come after: “How human is you… Source: Names that are more dog or more human | FlowingData
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As fewer faculty members are protected by tenure, they’re finding it harder to resist laws that ban certain racial topics. Their students suffer the consequences. Source: After DeSantis’ Anti-CRT Law, Florida Professors Cancel Courses, Modify Teaching — ProPublica
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(Salem) – Jan. 15 is the last day of open enrollment for private health insurance in Oregon’s health insurance marketplace. Open enrollment is the only time when anyone who are not offered insurance from a job or a public program like the Oregon Health Plan or Medicare can enroll in health coverage through OregonHealthCare.gov, often with financial help. Since open …
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Listen now (17 min) | Start Your Own Local Online Paper Source: Blue Dots in a Red Sea (Ep. 8) - Michael Moore
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It has gone through three phases over the last four decades, and no longer has any reason for being Source: The Party's Over: The end of the GOP - Robert Reich
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Read the Article from the Source: The Case for Taking Crimea | Foreign Affairs
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Source: Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 313 of the invasion | Russia | The Guardian
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Source: When will the Supreme Court decide on the student debt forgiveness plan? - AS USA
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Source: Tax Benefits Changing for Tax Year 2022 - The TurboTax Blog
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Source: Ukraine war: Zelensky tells Russians - Putin is destroying you - BBC News
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The end of one year. The beginning of another. Around this time, I always have mixed feelings. After the hype and buzz (and hopefully, also, enjoyment) of the lead-up to and celebration of Christmas, a kind of let-down creeps in for me. I rifle through the cards I’ve received from old friends and long-ago neighbors, and I think of loved …
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WHITE CITY, Ore. - Christmas evening, a routine Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) patrol in White City discovered a driver passed out behind the wheel with fentanyl on his lap. During the arrest and search warrant, JCSO seized 93 grams of multi-colored powdered fentanyl. Preliminary tests confirmed the presence of fentanyl in the powdered substances seized and samples were sent …
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On December 22, 2022 Medford Police Detectives arrested 25-year-old Cedrus Jahson King at a residence in Bend following a multi-year investigation into a catalytic converter theft ring. The investigation, which culminated last week with the search of three locations including a residence and warehouse in Medford and residence in Bend, led to the seizure of over 6,700 pounds of catalytic …
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