The Weekly Way (2/19/21)
Bold solutions to address climate change, reform our elections, and flip educational inequities.
Editor’s Note
Who is doing great work?
From temperate California, my sole urge this week has been to send power (and sun) to my Oregon family. If you know of an organization doing life saving work to keep Oregonians safe and warm during these difficult times, please let me know so that we can raise awareness of their work via the blog.
Thank you all for being a part of this community! Kevin
Welcome to new contributors
Hunter Spence: President of Oregon College Democrats, Senior Organizer for College Democrats of America, Senior at the University of Oregon.
Jenn Stephens: Oregon born, raised, and educated. Loved Austin, TX, then moved back home to raise our three boys. Political nerd, MBA, and passionate about helping people.
Help us connect Oregonians
Share this blog with three friends!
Send potential contributors to Kevin (kfraz@berkeley.edu).
Now to the posts!
To read
Don’t miss Chapter 8 of Kevin Frazier’s book, Rediscovering the Oregon Way.
Learn about an innovative way to address climate change from Elden Rosenthal.
Wondering what Oregon can learn from Alaska? Read this.
Discover how differences in educational attainment shape our politics and culture from John Horvick of DHM Research.
To look forward to
Rukaiyah Adams penning her inaugural post.
Rob Harris on creating a broad coaltion to improve Oregon’s electoral system.
Sarah White outlining the impressive efforts underway to care for those in need in Silverton.
Peter Laufer on the “Californification” of Oregon.
Allen Alley on the state of the GOP in Oregon.
To answer
Congrats to Andrew Kalloch for answering our last trivia question.
Tweet at @the_oregon_way to win & tell us who said this:
Being a realist means “looking at the roots of the problems and trying to get to solutions that address [those roots], as opposed to fiddling around with the peripheral issues.”