Congressional Redistricting – How to Participate! The legislature will release their redistricting maps at 8am on Sept 3rd and then hold virtual hearings around the State starting Sept 8th for people to comment on the maps and also make comments about their community. Public Hearings for Residents of CD 1: September 8th at 8am September […]
COVID Hospitalization Costs Add Up! FAIR Health is an independent nonprofit that collects data for and manages the nation’s largest database of privately billed health insurance claims and is entrusted with Medicare Parts A, B and D claims data for 2013 to the present. “We found the average charge per COVID-19 patient requiring a hospital […]
In case you missed this, Dr. Scott Nelson spoke at a Grants Pass Rotary meeting last week (August 12, 2021) and had dire predictions for our community relating to COVID surges. “We need to be prepared for an onslaught like we have never seen. It is not inconceivable that we will be like New York […]
8/14/2021 From: Rosa Colquitt, PhD, Vice Chair, Democratic Party of Oregon, Chair, DPO Black Caucus Marcia Schneider, Vice Chair 1, Multnomah County Democrats Save the Date Aug 28th – March On For Voting Rights More than 140 organizations from all over the country are coming together for March On For Voting Rights on August 28 […]
County Commissioners WEEK OF JULY 19-JULY 22, 2021 July 21 Agenda July 21, 2021 Video – Not available This meeting info will be uploaded after County posts the video and it can be reviewed. July 22, 2021 – Agenda Commissioners continued to argue with Josephine County Public Health Director Michael Weber about COVID-19 vaccines, citing […]
County Commissioners WEEK OF JULY 12-JULY 16, 2021 July 14, 2021 Agenda July 14, 2021 Video Josephine County Commissioners’ July 14 Business Meeting featured people who actually wanted to pay a tax and a range of dramatis personae who used public comment time to repeat oft told tales even though Commission Chair Dan DeYoung said […]
County Commissioners WEEK OF JUNE 28-JULY 1, 2021 June 30, 2021 Agenda June 30, 2021 Video Nagging, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “persistently annoying or finding fault with someone.” Josephine County Commissioners spent the better part of their meeting doing just that to Oregon’s female governor: Commissioner Fowler said that “Governor Kate Brown had a […]
WEEK OF JUNE 21-25, 2021 The recording of the June 23 meeting was not available at the time this update was written, due to YouTube taking it offline for including medical misinformation. That meeting can now be viewed at this link. Future live-streamed meetings will be available on the County Website. Previously recorded business meetings […]
WEEK OF JUNE 14 – 18, 2021 YouTube video from the general meeting was removed due to Medical Misinformation. According to reporting by the Daily Courier, the Commissioners were advised by YouTube that if county officials refute the misinformation, their videos can stay. Given they often comment in support of these weekly COVID conspiracy baltherings, […]
