Oregon’s gift to the Senate Finance Committee is about to be Sen. Ron Wyden.Wyden at the front of the line if his fellow Democrats keep control of the Senate in the 2014 elections.
Then the Constitution subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the ethics, legality, constitutionality, and political costs of the drone strike policy.
This will be the first time in the history of the drone strike policy that there has been a public Congressional hearing like this focused on the policy.
The history of drone strike policy: now there’s a painful brainful.
Ren Green (aka RenSter to her Burning Man friends) has had a very interesting ride through many of the school systems in the Western Hemisphere as a child and as a parent. And now she’s giving some payback, uh, … insight. Don Merrill talks with her about her first book, "A Very Long Story about Karma that Will Probably Make me Cry" that will also probably make you laugh and shudder .
Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution
By Melanie Rios
(Published in the Winter 2011 issue of Communities magazine – Issue #153.)
Partial diagram of sociocratic organizational structure at Lost Valley Center. The water circle was a temporary circle that has since disbanded. The arrows stand for people who are representatives of one circle to the other circle.
The Secretary of State’s office has released details regarding financial contributions from the campaign pushing to add Fluoride to Portland’s drinking water.
Portlander Natalie Marie, local LGBT advocacy and service non-profit Q Center's "Volunteer of the Year," has been dismissed after failing a state-mandated criminal background check.
In her past, Natalie's struggle with addiction landed her in prison for seven years, and then in a halfway house, where she was targeted for her gender identity and denied medical care.
She argues that her involvement with Q Center has been essential in facilitating her transition out of incarceration.
But in recent months, she learned of a state statute, ORS 443.004, that says public funds cannot support the employment in any capacity of individuals in "certain positions" if they have "specific convictions."
It's all there...but we are hypnotized by the bright beads. Our demons are in the twisted connections in between. Our demons are not looking in the windows while we sleep.
