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Hours After Blazers Superstar Damian Lillard Complains, Moda Center Is Poised to Allow Fans He gets his wish, thanks to a friendly bounce: hospitalizations just below the state threshold. Damian Lillard plays in front of a mostly empty Moda Center in April. (Bruce Ely / Trail Blazers) Updated May 4 Damian Lillard launched a shot at Gov. Kate Brown all the way from Cleveland on Tuesday, lamenting her decision to bar fans from attending Portland Trail Blazers games at the Moda Center.
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Oregon Senate Republicans want the state reopened and appear willing to disrupt the legislative process to do it.
On Wednesday, the Senate GOP Caucus signaled its intent to take on the same parliamentary procedures as House Republicans earlier in the session by demanding bills be read aloud in full before a vote. As this session has shown, the Constitutional requirement that legislation be read in its entirety is an important tool to encourage bipartisan collaboration, the Senate Republican Caucus announced in a statement.
In response, Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, resorted to reading bills aloud Wednesday. The effort is part of larger concerns among Democratic lawmakers regarding public safety since four COVID cases twice shut down the House this session.
In response to both developments, the Lane County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a letter to Gov. Kate Brown co-signed by the Eugene, Springfield, Florence, Oakridge and Cottage Grove chambers of commerce asking for more vaccines and a revision of the state s risk metric framework.
Davis announced Thursday that the state is expected to give Lane County Public Health 30,000 doses next week, three times the usual vaccination allocation. That will mean far more people vaccinated the week after next, Davis said. So (we re) really excited about that potential and hopefully (we ll) have more to report back to you on Tuesday.
The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication paid New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the writer behind the anti-historical “1619 Project,” for a Zoom lecture in February on “1619 and the Legacy that Built a Nation,” as first reported by Campus Reform.
Hannah-Jones raked in $25,000, evident by a Freedom of Information Request filed by Campus Reform. The Feb. 19 event was co-sponsored by the university’s Office of the President, Office of the Provost, and Division of Equity and Inclusion, among other groups.
The organization that was paid by The University of Oregon was the Lavin Agency, as shown by the FOIA. The agency defines itself as “the world’s largest intellectual talent agency, representing leading thinkers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, consulting, and endorsements.” The group also offers the likes of Margaret Atwood, leftist activist Angela Davis, Khan Academy Chief Executive Officer Salman Khan, climate wr
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