#corvallis

Wow
The Lund Report: #Corvallis-based #SamaritanHealth’s #losses have it contemplating absorption by a larger partner
https://www.thelundreport.org/content/corvallis-based-samaritan-healths-losses-have-it-contemplating-absorption-larger-partner

Really Really Free Market Corvallis, Oregon has been added to A Radical Guide https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/really-really-free-market-corvallis-oregon #WhereWereYouRadicalized #MutualAid #DirectAction #RadicalEducation #radicalhistory #GrassrootsMovements #Solidarity #Abolition #Antifascism #RadicalHistory #SupportRadicalSpaces #CollectiveLiberation #MovementBuilding #anothetworldispossible #grassrootsactivism #liberation #corvallis #oregon #unitedstates

On main street of Williamette Valley town. Independence, Polk County, Oregon

#WilliametteValley #Independence #PolkCounty #Oregon #Coca-Cola #HopFiesta #CovingtonHall #Corvallis #Cho-Cho #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773031/

(Why wasn't he charged with attempted #murder, #Corvallis)
KOIN.com: #Oregon man set person on fire while they were sleeping in street, police say
#homeless
#houseless
https://www.koin.com/news/crime/corvallis-person-sleeping-street-attempted-arson-fire/

One of the great things about living in a college town like Corvallis is the density of brilliant academics and authors in what is, really, quite a small town.

Oregon State University faculty produced some incredible books in 2024, both for the university press and other publishers around the country. A list:

#oregon #books #corvallis

https://today.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/osu-celebrates-2024-faculty-authors

After a really abnormally dry January, we are finally seeing rain in the forecast in western Oregon. I never trust forecasts here more than about a week out, but I'm going to keep refreshing this every morning until I hear raindrops on my roof. Can't wait.

#Oregon #orwx #Corvallis

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html Court rules city of #Corvallis violated #FirstAmendment by moving to expel city councilor from council over climate speech. #FreeSpeech #Oregon

I don't like #Trump at all, but the politics in #Corvallis is borderline intolerable -- to the point of being a bit toxic for all of us who are trying to advance to the next stage.

There are a lot of ambivalent people living here. Actually it's really a mix and not just neoliberals and the cliquish types.

Maybe we need someone like Trump to get in there and make things a lot worse before these ambivalent people get a grip and see what's going on around here. Maybe then they'll start collectively organizing to overthrow people like #Albany 's Mark Shepard who is #Corvallis 's semi-corrupt City Manager and is the man directly responsible for signing off for much of the recent city land giveaways to capricious out-of-state real estate developers.

They've really been on the ball here in Corvallis building shitty apartment complexes everywhere by the score.

Corvallis, please fire Mark Shepard. He is a POS.

OregonLive: #Federaljudge finds city of #Corvallis retaliated against city councilor for exercising #freespeech
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html

RIP the #MarysRiver in #Corvallis #Oregon where a freight #train went into the river with #urea #fertilizer after the bridge failed today. This is the same bridge that was burned a few years ago and they never really repaired it.

https://katu.com/news/local/train-trestle-collapses-near-avery-park-corvallis-no-injuries-reported-so-far-benton-county-oregon

It was a great morning of slow birding around the Timberhill area of #Corvallis, with most of my existing year list showing up, along with these six newcomers. The bluebird gave us a close look, and that was a treat on a rainy winter's day.

11) Bushtit
12) House Finch
13) Pine Siskin
14) Red-breasted Nuthatch
15) Downy Woodpecker
16) Western Bluebird

#BirdsOf2025 #birds

It's barely dark, a full two weeks before New Years, so of course, the fireworks are starting.

Winter boom boom season annoys me less than the summer one, because it poses less physical danger, but still. Nonsense.

#Corvallis

I can't believe I lived in #Corvallis as long as I did without spending time at Chip Ross Park. I've been there twice in the last week, and it's fabulous. The highlight for me is the reliable good looks at acorn woodpeckers, but today, a close second was this absolute unit of a mushroom patch.

#Oregon #mushtodon

Annares Project for Alternative Futures has been added to A Radical Guide https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/annares-project-for-alternative-futures #WhereWereYouRadicalized? #corvallis #northamerica #oregon

Mid-Valley Industrial Workers of the World has been added to A Radical Guide https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/mid-valley-industrial-workers-of-the-world #WhereWereYouRadicalized? #corvallis #northamerica #oregon #unitedstates

All this talk about blue sky, but between all the overlapping storms in western Oregon, this is the first I've seen of it all week.
#Corvallis #Oregon #orwx

I originally heard that Margaret Atwood's talk here in my little college town had been moved online because of the storm. That made sense. It turns out that the real story is sadder, but depressingly unsurprising. If these fascist assholes can shut down a book talk in Corvallis, they can do it anywhere.

#Corvallis #Oregon #books

https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2024/11/anonymous-threats-of-violence-move-margaret-atwood-event-at-osu-online.html

For those who are able, the coming months and years will require us to grow and nurture local networks that already help the most vulnerable and harmed people. These are four charities in my area that I have supported in the past and will going forward:

Jackson Street Youth Shelter
https://www.jacksonstreet.org/

Linn-Benton Food Share
https://communityservices.us/linn-benton-food-share/

Stone Soup Corvallis
http://stonesoupcorvallis.org/

Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society
https://siletzartsheritagesociety.org/

#Corvallis #Oregon #PNW

Mushroom Day 2024 was a great way to spend an early November day in Corvallis. Great guides and exhibits, and we brought home some chanterelles, lobsters and fried chicken mushrooms for dinner. Anxiety slightly lowered for several hours, which is nice.

#Corvallis #Oregon #mushtodon