It sure ain’t pretty. Estimates are there are 16,000 workers left, but that’s down from 23,000 Oregon employees as recently as 2024 – which was also a decline from the years before that.
Intel’s global workforce has also declined from nearly 132,000 employees in 2022 to around 81,000 in 2026.
Portland has plenty of left-wing domestic terrorism. Unable to make reasoned arguments or actual contributions to make the world better, their intellectual level is that of throwing bricks at places at night, fully masked, doxxing people, and dosing things in gas and burning them.
Since 2020, Oregon has ranked in the bottom half of U.S. states for real GDP growth. While companies aren’t fleeing en masse, some are building new facilities and hiring additional workers elsewhere, citing higher costs, longer permitting timelines and a complicated path to growth in Oregon
‘Modern’ education methods have had their opportunity – and they have now clearly demonstrated they have failed a generation worse than has been done in any time in the last 200 years. That’s astounding.
Want to go see a bunch of old steam engines – many of which were used in early local farming and logging? The Great Oregon Steam-Up occurs in Brooks, OR at Powerland Heritage Park on July.
If you have the $2.5 million reserve, you can get into the estimated $6.5 mil DecaroAuctions.com auction for an Oregon fairy-tale castle.
Melissa McPhail was the author of the expansive epic-fantasy series A Pattern of Shadow & Light. She originally imagined a place where she could write and create, with the longer ambition of welcoming artists from around the world into a setting that offered the same freedom—a castle for creativity.
Sadly, she passed away in 2022 before it was completed in 2023. The estate is now being put up for auction by her surviving husband.
I find it interesting how many of these kinds of grand capstone projects are started by wealthy individuals that often never see them completed. Steve Jobs started his famous yacht. It’s a reminder to treasure each day because the plans of tomorrow may all come to nothing.
When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.
In historical context, particularly regarding WW II, this phrase is used to emphasize that atrocities did not happen overnight but began with seemingly small, ideological steps.
The massive advancements of the early 1900’s had filled the world with optimism that we could finally solve the world’s problems. Humanity had gained enough mastery over nature that it could cure diseases at rates never before seen, feed massive numbers of people, and improve lives with electricity, automobiles, airplanes, safe water, and vaccines. Academics, philosophers, artists, and politicians were swept up in this Modernist movement. This however, lead to ideas like eugenics that sought to elevating the human race by deciding who was worth living and which people should be reduced. Social and economic policies like Socialism that ended up killing more people in 70 years than all other political systems in history.
The point is, good intentions and ‘compassion’ can often end up creating a hell on earth. The 20th century witnessed 2 World Wars and the most disastrous forms of government in the history of the world.
Portland Oregon is now re-learning that lesson. This chart is from the 2025 Drug Overdose Crisis report. Can you tell where Oregon legalized drug use and when it ended the practice? Despite offering completely free drug rehab programs to anyone, free narcan, and every possible free support system to get clean – deaths skyrocketed.
And the unpopular part: the history of putting people in jail for drug offenses clearly saved more lives than allowing free drug use in the streets. That’s a policy failure that free drug advocates continue to ignore. A policy failure that cost literally thousands of people their lives in just 5 years.
Compassion is a road to hell if there is no wisdom behind it.
