Pete Danko

@JamesSurowiecki @JeninYounesEsq Indeed, the surge came almost entirely ahead of widespread Covid vaccination, with cardiovascular disease deaths rising from 874,613 in 2019 to 928,741 in 2020. heart.org/en/news/2023/0…

@JeninYounesEsq No - something new that causes cardiovascular problems was introduced to the population in early 2020.

Deaths from cardiovascular disease surged in 2021 and 2022, the Times reports. Hmmm, I wonder why. Was something new introduced into the population in 2021? It was a long time ago but I think maybe I remember something about a new medicine, or was it a vaccine, most or many Americans were forced to get in 2021 and 2022?

@AnganteGarde Ben Nelson

@WallStreetApes Being the widow of a pancreatic cancer victim, I truly grieve for the family of Ben Sasse and what is to come. But as for the man Ben Sasse, let it read on his tombstone: “I was the deciding vote that ushered in Obamacare.”

No American can afford to ignore this, because today it’s this woman but tomorrow it could be you “I am still very angry. I am numb right now. UnitedHealthcare denied my heart surgery that was scheduled for Friday. Of course they wait until the last minute to do it. There's no way to get an appeal through before then.” “This is messing with my life. It's messing with my livelihood. This is a heart surgery. This is not an elective procedure. This is not something I want to have done, but I need to have it done because it’s already causing major problems. I can't work right now, and it's getting worse. It's not getting any better. — I'm out of loss. I'm very numb and I'm very angry. For profit health insurance is the worst thing ever.” This could be any of us if we don’t get drastic reform of our health insurance industry

PacifiCorp last week described a cascade of financial and operational challenges it could face if its credit were to fall below investment grade. It's now a step closer to that happening. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

@SteveKettmann @MikeSilver @LowellCohn @grantcohn I remember being outraged more than a few times, which was of course his goal. (I hadn't read a lot of that East Coast provocateur-style columnizing before Lowell.) But he wasn't only that....brought tons of energy and creativity.

Back in the dorms at Berkeley, my roommate @petedanko and I read the Sporting Green every morning and a former Stanford lit prof named Lowell Cohn blew our minds. Now Lowell tells his story. @MikeSilver amazon.com/Brooklyn-Jew-J… @LowellCohn @grantcohn

@SteveKettmann "Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening," by Jim Newton.

Book author wants to know: Who has time to read? If you cracked any book in the last month, tell me about it.

@LittleGreenBagz That's not what the data I've seen shows. Can you share your source? portland.gov/mayor/keith-wi…

@libsoftiktok Homicides up 30% but this is what you concentrate on @MayorKWilson?

JUST IN: Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is issuing an ICE facility a notice for “land use violations” because they’re detaining illegals. Democrats love protecting foreign criminals over American citizens He literally sounds like an HOA Karen

That's my alma mater on top! Amazing to see California's public university system remaining so strong.

@ThirtyTwoToo In my experience, the columnist, but not without considerable discussion with editors

@petedanko Who decides what a columnist writes?

These @CAgovernor Newsom tweets are delicious mimics of the Trump style. I think satire and mockery are more effective than denunciation, so well done, @GovPressOffice!

@ThirtyTwoToo Right there in the bio: "NY Times columnist"

@NickKristof @CAgovernor @GovPressOffice What is your job? Serious question. NYT Reporter?

Can Oregon's Union Wine Co. do it again? bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

@flipflopflarp @HowieLongggg @cook_fish_farm @curious_founder Guess it depends on what you mean by "plenty"?

@HowieLongggg @cook_fish_farm @curious_founder Plenty of it, in fact

Super weird that the DOE is posting pics of anthracite coal mined in Zambia. Why didn't they post anthracite coal mined in the US? Because we haven't mined any in 80 years!

First it was Amazon, now it's Google as Avangrid inks data center operators to wind power deals in Oregon. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

Huh

PacifiCorp, facing a massive wildfire damages costs, is recouping its liability from transmission customers, including the Bonneville Power Administration. They aren't happy about it. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

"Only a short while ago, the Debtors were close to pursuing a liquidating transaction," Powin's managers wrote in a new filing. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

A North Carolina company is providing financing to Powin in the bankruptcy. Will it become a stalking horse bidder? bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

@srportland @MayorOfLA mynewsla.com/crime/2024/07/…

@MayorOfLA Funny. I can’t find the tweet where you condemned the attempted assassinations of President Trump.

Political violence has no place in our country. It is horrifying and it must stop. abc7.com/post/2-minneso…

"This allows us to dramatically expand our national footprint in a really efficient way," Stoller Wine Group President Gary Mortensen says. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

Powin, one of the world's most prolific providers of battery energy storage systems outside China, said it would reform with a focus, for now at least, on system monitoring and services. bizjournals.com/portland/news/…

NY Time's piece today about county trends in presidential elections is an excuse to share one of my favorite Oregon charts. This shows the vote % for Democratic presidential candidates by county from 1920 to 2024.