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Though many Corvallis traditions and events have been cancelled due to the pandemic, community leaders urge residents to explore and support efforts to create new, alternate forms of entertainment and celebration. The Pastega Christmas Lights Display, a generations-old Corvallis event founded by the late Mario Pastega and now funded through the Mario and Alma Pastega family foundation, was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.  Ken Pastega, Mario Pastega’s son, said the family instead chose to donate $40,000 to Linn Benton Food Share. Usually, Pastega said they have between 150 to 200 v...

Evil, not evil but -- you can judge it. but have ideologies in which they feel they can walk away from white supremacy, but embrace the tax cuts. it will be interesting to keep it in mind, important to keep in voters' faces the reality of these are what these companies do. you have a choice, you can support companies that do this, or companies that don't do this. you can express your own agency as a consumer. consumers are not the same thing as citizens. i value the practice of citizenship more than consumption. but i think you can do a lot with your consumer power. this is a chance where you ...

Phone. this is a wakeup call. people are concerned and they are acting on it. >> this is a big thing to change. if you have consumer power. that business argument. for so long, they have had it all their own way. it seemed to make no difference what they did. they will rack up the users and rack up the money that comes with that. so this is a really important signal. consumers hold the key. we have to act in a regulatory way to make sure that the companies can't continue the dominance. there are specific ways i talk about it in my book. this is one of the biggest issues of our time. >> martha:...

Are open, which in this case are sort of consumer power, it's not ideal and then it creates a situation where gun owners feel even more cultural embattled because they feel like even walmart and krogers are turning on them. >> the culture war is everywhere. >> right. i think it's interesting in part because you say the 13 tickets thing with delta, it reflects how symbolic this is. not like delta is getting out of a lucrative line of business compared to fedex resistant to making changes because fedex is in the business of shipping things related to guns. if they took a stand, that could have a...

Bower who argued in business insid insider, they are taking more left leaning stances and tara who is an expert in marketing and communications and i want to return to the point. it's been so fascinating to watch this play out. in which political power in this country is tilted towards older, more conservative, particularly rural americans, consumer power in this country, the things that brands care about, the kinds of people are younger, more diverse and more urban and nothing is more clear what politicians are doing post park laland. >> i don't think the natural place to turn to for gun cont...