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Post Alley's Summer Fiction Serial
Each day for the next two weeks we're serializing Dick Lilly's crime mystery "Nothing Left to Lose."
"Hidden in plain sight, an industrial-scale meth lab in a former biotech building in Seattle’s tech hub quietly pumps out millions of carefully hidden profits for the scion of one of the city’s old-line wealthy families. That is, until agents from an Afghan rebel group show up looking for a cut and bodies start washing up on Puget Sound beaches."
COVID Update: Study Finds Longterm Health Effects; Many More Deaths and No Silver Bullet
The results were unsettling, to say the least: “Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), which was independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and the time from the original diagnosis.”
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News or Views? Does anyone trust the media?
We want to trust the news media, but a new study finds we often don't.
Veepstakes: Is Susan Rice the #2 Biden Needs?
One vice presidential prospect who didn’t get too much attention early on but remains in contention is Susan Rice – the only one of those in serious consideration who has never run for office. But I don’t see that as a disqualification.
Join the Circus: A Way To Get The Arts Back Onstage
"Theatres need to stop worrying about how they can reopen in a reduced form, and look out for other models of production in different spaces and to different audiences."
Empires Won and Lost…
We are, in this new country, this America, facing our own existential question -- can we, someone wrote today, save our dysfunctional Congress, where the aim is no longer governance in the public interest, but merely retention of power and privilege?
Bucking the Crowd: Herd Immunity and the Risks to your Kids
We know more about herd immunity in these pandemic days, but as the nation struggles with how or whether to reopen its schools, the notion of inducing it by deliberately exposing children to the corona virus is trending on social media.
After the Vote: City Council’s Start To “Defunding SPD”
Omari Salisbury, Marcus Green and Kevin Schofield discuss the origins of the 50% target, the politics that led to this point, and the deep, often acrimonious divisions in City Hall over the wisdom of moving quickly to cut SPD’s budget.
Join the Circus: A Way To Get The Arts Back Onstage
"Theatres need to stop worrying about how they can reopen in a reduced form, and look out for other models of production in different spaces and to different audiences."
Trump Country: Eastern Oregon’s Open Congressional Seat
Congressman Greg Walden, a Republican who has held the sprawling seat since 1998, suddenly retired. Walden may have been feeling the pressures of a district that is leaning — at least in places like Bend, Hood River, the Dalles, and Ashland — more to the left.
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