In a press release dated August 18, 2021 sent to colleagues, Chief of Human Resources Sharon Reese at Portland Public Schools has announced that all Portland Public Schools staff will be required to be vaccinated, unless they have an approved exception. It is not clear what the approved exceptions will be or if there will be any exemption for COVID-19 survivors who can be presumed to have natural immunity.

The statement is as follows

"The public health guidance is clear -- vaccines are the best way to prevent the spread and the severity of COVID. Today we are announcing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all PPS staff.

"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have followed the guidance of public health experts to best ensure the health and well being of our students and staff members. The State of Oregon has communicated that local school districts are in the best position to determine further measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In alignment with public health experts’ recommendations, Portland Public Schools, along with its labor partners, is committed to taking every step possible to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, and community.

"Today, as we prepare to welcome students back to school for full-time in-person instruction on September 1, PPS, the Portland Association of Teachers and the Portland Federation of School Professionals have agreed with the concept that we will require all employees -- including classroom teachers, school-based and central office staff -- to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

"PPS and its labor union partners are outlining the details of this vaccine requirement for the 2021-2022 school year. More information will be made available to all PPS employees by Monday, August 23.

"In short, all PPS employees will be required to submit proof of full vaccination by August 31, unless they have an approved exception. PPS employees who do not provide proof of vaccination by August 31 will be required to be tested regularly, or until proof of vaccination is submitted.

This shared commitment and announcement to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all PPS staff is another important, safe and effective way to protect our students, staff and community and towards our path to ending this pandemic.

--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2021-08-20 08:17:33

Last Update: 2021-08-19 18:03:01

Representative David Brock Smith (R-Port Orford) was fully vaccinated back in April with his colleagues at the Oregon State Hospital, now has tested positive for COVID-19, although contact tracing shows he contracted the coronavirus from another fully vaccinated individual.

“I watched the Governor’s Press Conference today in disbelief, appalled at her mandating vaccines and at the fear mongering tactics of Oregon Health Authority Director Allen (who has no health degree) and State Epidemiologist Sidelinger (who is a pediatrician and has no degree in epidemiology). Once again, Portland dictates the mandates across the state, as earlier this week Portland Public Schools mandated vaccines for all teachers and staff and now the Governor forces the rest of the state to comply.”

“With urban democrats tweeting vaccine mandates for Oregonians to be able to dine in restaurants to their shaming of those; specifically calling out rural Oregonians, who choose to be unvaccinated, when is enough – enough? Where and at what profession do the vaccine mandates end? I am living proof that vaccinated individuals can still contract Covid from another vaccinated individual. Where is this data? Why is there not a concerted effort to learn and collect data on the “breakthrough” cases that I and others are a part of? Where is the Governor’s efforts on dealing with hospital capacity? A 2018 Kaiser Family Foundation Study; reported again in December of 2020, shows that Oregon has fewer hospital beds per capita than any other state in the U.S. and yet our healthcare institutions had to practically beg for financial help during the last surge of the pandemic. Where is the democrat supermajority’s action on funding to increase our hospital capacity in Oregon when we know that no matter how many Oregonians are vaccinated, Covid will always be with us?”

“I fear forcing vaccinations on teachers, health care workers and staff is only the beginning and the Governor must stop these tyrannical mandates now. She must also hold our School Districts harmless and at minimum, fund them at 2019 levels as her mandates will surely drive more children and staff out of our classrooms. This will be especially true for our smaller school districts that can barely keep, let alone attract, teachers and staff.”

“Covid is here to stay. I and my family are vaccinated by choice. I have and continue to encourage Oregonians to be vaccinated against Covid. I and thousands of others like me are proof however that you can still contract and spread Covid even if vaccinated. Forcing these vaccines on Oregonians is wrong. Forcing these vaccines on Oregonians based on their profession is worse. These actions are none other than a symptom of Oregonians lack of trust in their Governor, her leadership and the rollercoaster of agency mandates over the last year and a half of ‘14 days to flatten the curve’.”

Representative David Brock Smith represents House District 1, which includes Curry, Coos, Douglas and Josephine counties.


--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2021-08-20 07:20:40

Last Update: 2021-08-19 17:17:33

Jo Rae Perkins, Republican Candidate for the United States Senate, has condemned President Joe Biden for the disastrous withdrawal policy that has led to the collapse of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power.

“President Biden’s decision to rapidly withdraw our troops has led to the collapse of Afghanistan. He has squandered our military’s decades of work and their lives sacrificed. Due to his failed leadership, there is now no hope for stability in Afghanistan. There is no doubt that Biden is incapable of leading our country on foreign policy and militarily,” said Perkins.

Perkins noted that Biden withdrew the troops so recklessly that now our military equipment is falling into the Taliban’s hand and paving the way for the return of Al-Qaeda.

“The Taliban will be back in power by the 20th anniversary on 9/11. Burning our embassy on that painful day will be a national embarrassment to our nation,” said Perkins. “We have left countless souls to be taken by the Taliban in retribution. Our country’s credibility has been severely damaged. In less than 7 months, Biden has surpassed Jimmy Carter as the worst President in our nation’s history.”

Perkins is concerned that China has announced that they will recognize the Taliban, giving China a major foothold in the region, further eroding America’s influence internationally.


--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2021-08-20 06:54:46

Last Update: 2021-08-19 17:05:40

Portland Public School District Superintendent Guerrero has sent out a press release in part stating:

“The State of Oregon has communicated that local school districts are in the best position to determine further measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In alignment with public health experts’ recommendations, Portland Public Schools, along with its labor partners, is committed to taking every step possible to ensure the health and safety of our students, employees, and community.”

By “labor partners” Guerrero means the Portland Association for Teachers. There were no “labor partners” at the August 4, 2021 work session with a panel called “public health experts” one from Washington, D.C. where eleven-year-old children can be vaccinated without parental knowledge or consent. See previous Northwest Observer report on that session where some elected school board members valiantly attempted to get parents and the public’s questions answered to no avail.

The July 27, 2021, Portland Public School Board meeting included an announcement of a vaccination clinic to happen that week at Franklin High School. The day of the clinic only 15 students showed up to be vaccinated. Students do not want to be vaccinated. Black Americans do not want to be vaccinated. In parts of New York only 28% of Black Americans got vaccinated.

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“Dr. Reed Tuckson, a founding member of the Black Coalition Against COVID (BCAC), believes the increased resistance of Black Americans to take the vaccine comes from a long-time distrust in U.S. societal institutions.”

Black Americans’ intuition, experience and distrust of American institutions is well founded in history. The Public Schools created by the 1854 Congress (a Congress that feared the coming freedom of Black men) brought in institutional racism that even the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs the Board of Education that desegregated the schools could not reform.

Samuel Blumenthal’s 1984 book outlines the history of that government education system patterned off the Prussian school system and how it was and is set up to bring in socialism. It’s the reason Kindergarten is a German word. America has had a German compulsory government school system beginning in 1854.

“Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second-class citizens.”

Jim Crow came into Portland, Oregon with the 2020 masking. Those who couldn’t or wouldn’t wear a mask were told to stay outside like what was done to Black Americans for almost one hundred years. The Democratic Party created the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), that party brought in Jim Crow. Now it’s the same party and the teachers’ unions who repeat this kind of history, but now attempt to do it on everyone.

The Tuskegee experiment on Black American men ran from 1932 to 1972. There was no informed consent. Just as in today in 2021 the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Oregon Health State University (OHSU) and Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) refused to give NW Observer the “fact sheet” on the vaccine with the PBEM employee overseeing the Franklin High School vaccine clinic stating that pulling up your sleeve to get the injection “…was informed consent.” These various institutions continue in the same mindset that created the Tuskegee experiment.

A long history, for forty years the Public Health Service used, abused, caused further injury and death to Black American men. The study only stopped in 1972. Historical memory remains in the Black Community of institutional abuses and taking of their rights and health. But the superintendent of the Portland Public School District repeatedly says that he will follow the Public Health experts; under the guise of public health, he deems he can take away the rights of students, parents, and the Black community.

Citizens viewing the recent PPS board meetings noticed that the school board directors elected by the voters in Portland, Oregon are not the boss of the Superintendent, Guadalupe Guerrero, that he and his administrative staff are the boss of the school board. In the August 4th work session when board members were presenting too many questions from parents emailing them, Guerrero interrupted them about “...getting too much into the nitty gritty…” He and his staff’s repeated mantra was to do what the “public health experts” say. Historically it is the young people, it is the teens who opened the modern-day civil rights movement in 1955. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr get the credit, but it was teens and young Black men coming back from World War II who said, “Hell no we are not sitting at the back of the bus, and we will eat at the lunch counter.”

Claudette Colvin is why in the Portland area public school systems they not only will not teach about Claudette’s role in starting the 1955 civil rights movement (and her case and other teens’ cases went to the US Supreme Court, but not Rosa Park’s also), but one year when a substitute, in February, for Black History month put up Claudette’s photo and the photo of the college kids at the lunch counter the school district took them down. The remark to the substitute was, “It’s hard enough controlling these kids and you put that up there?”

Teens today, students today should learn about Claudette Colvin. Fifteen-year-old Claudette by her actions pushed adults like Rosa Parks to, nine months later, act. Some in Portland see in the current population of young people, that there are some Claudette Colvin teens who are standing up for their rights.

It may be the teens and Black Americans who once more end up reminding the community and the world that the US Constitution was written for all to use to acquire and ensure their rights in America.


--Margo Logan

Post Date: 2021-08-19 15:17:20

Last Update: 2021-08-19 16:54:46

Governor Kate Brown has announced two new vaccination measures to address Oregon’s supposed hospital crisis, caused by the Delta variant. The governor claims this is to help keep Oregon students safe in the upcoming school year and minimize disruptions to in-person instruction.

Oregon’s vaccination requirement for health care workers will no longer have a testing alternative

The governor announced that health care workers will be required to be fully vaccinated by October 18 or six weeks after full FDA approval, whichever is later.

All teachers, educators, support staff, and volunteers in K-12 schools will be required to be fully vaccinated by October 18 or six weeks after full FDA approval, whichever is later.

"The Delta variant has put pressure on our health systems, and health care workers are being stretched to their absolute limits providing life-saving treatment for the patients in their care," said Governor Brown. "We need every single frontline health care worker available to treat patients."



"Our kids need to be in the classroom full-time, five days a week, and we have to do everything we can to make that happen," said Governor Brown. "While we are still learning about the Delta variant, we know from previous experience that when schools open with safety measures in place, the risk of transmission is low. That’s why I’ve directed the Oregon Health Authority to issue a rule requiring all teachers, educators, support staff, and volunteers in K-12 schools to be fully vaccinated."

The Governor also outlined the steps Oregon is taking to support hospitals during the ongoing surge in cases and hospitalizations, including deploying the National Guard and nurse strike teams, establishing temporary decompression units to free up bed space, and removing barriers to discharging patients who no longer require hospital-level care.

Oregon has also made requests to FEMA and the Biden-Harris administration for additional federal resources and support. The Governor announced she has formed a Hospital Crisis Prevention and Response group consisting of health care stakeholders to problem solve in real time and suggest new measures to aid health care workers and hospitals during the ongoing hospital crisis.




--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-19 14:37:38

Last Update: 2021-08-19 15:17:20

The Salem-Keizer School Board work session scheduled for August 24, 2021 has been canceled. Please refer to the following statement released by school board leadership:

It is with deep regret that due to ongoing public safety concerns within our community, the Salem-Keizer School Board meeting for August 24 is canceled. This was to have been an opportunity for the board to hear from staff and students about the amazing partnership between our school district and Chemeketa Community College, including the redesign of our alternative education program. Our goal was to interact with students and staff while seeing the new agriculture complex at Chemeketa. We will reschedule at a time we can accomplish this in person. To the students and staff who prepared for this meeting and to our partners at Chemeketa, we apologize.

We are seeing a continual call in our community to create disruption to our board and our schools with divisiveness that has no place in the lives of our students. At our last board meeting, we witnessed disrespect, racial and transphobic comments, and a disregard for health and safety protocols. We believe our communities of Salem and Keizer are better than this, and board leadership does not want any person to be in an environment where they will not feel safe or welcome.

As a board, we remain highly committed to our goal of getting our students back to school for five days a week of in-person instruction. Getting students in school physically and having them remain in school is our single focus.

Please join us as a community in our commitment to get our students back in school, and support our healthcare workers who are working around the clock taking care of our critically ill community members.

Be safe, mask up, get vaccinated and support the safe return of our students to school!

--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-19 13:47:58

Last Update: 2021-08-19 14:06:20

Gov. Jay Inslee has announced a vaccination requirement for employees working in K-12, most childcare and early learning, and higher education, as well as an expansion of the statewide mask mandate to all individuals, regardless of vaccination status.

The governor was joined for the announcement by Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal and Secretary of Health Dr. Umair A. Shah.

K -12 educators, school staff, coaches, bus drivers, school volunteers and others working in school facilities will have until October 18 to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

The requirement includes public, private and charter schools, and comes as schools across the state prepare to return for the 2021–2022 school year amid rapidly increasing case and hospitalization numbers.

This does not impact students, regardless of age.

“It has been a long pandemic, and our students and teachers have borne their own unique burdens throughout,” Inslee said. “This virus is increasingly impacting young people, and those under the age of 12 still can’t get the vaccine for themselves. We won’t gamble with the health of our children, our educators and school staff, nor the health of the communities they serve.”

Inslee also announced a vaccine requirement for employees in Washington’s higher education institutions, as well as for most childcare and early learning providers who serve children from multiple households.

Read the rest of the story on the Governor Inslee's Medium page.


--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-19 10:45:04

Last Update: 2021-08-19 10:51:54

The Benton County Board of Commissioners have issued Order #D2021-063. It was issued on August 17, 2021.

Effective immediately, the order requires all individuals ages 5 and above, regardless of vaccination status, to wear face coverings when in indoor public settings and in outdoor public settings where a physical distance of six feet cannot be maintained.

“The health and safety of Benton County residents remains the number one priority,” said Benton County Board chair, Xan Augerot. “We cannot pretend that we live on an island. Individuals from different parts of Oregon and the United States are coming to Benton County to visit and recreate. We needed to take further action to ensure the health and safety of our communities and protect our hospital systems.”

“We’re averaging between three and four ventilated COVID patients in our ICU. When you look at these individuals, you see that they’re critically ill,” said Laura Hennum, CEO of Good Samaritan Regional Medical Regional Medical Center.

You can view the August 17, 2021 Board of Commissioners meeting here. The discussion regarding COVID-19 begins at 7:25.

The Board of Commissioners’ order can be read here.


--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-19 10:10:02

Last Update: 2021-08-19 10:41:25

As the situation in Afghanistan winds to a chaotic end, several Oregon state Legislators have signed on to a letter addressed to Oregon Governor Kate Brown, "calling for the safe passage for people from Afghanistan who are facing immediate threats to their lives and the lives of their families."

The letter references SB 778, passed in the 2021 session which established within the office of the Governor the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement for the purpose of operating a statewide immigrant and refugee integration strategy. The bill faced only token opposition in the Senate and just 6 no votes in the House.

While few people oppose extending help to the unknown counts of refugees created and yet-to-be created by the chaos in Afghanistan, many see the current refugee system as subject to abuse and being used as a way around the legitimate immigration system.

The letter calls on the Biden administration to lift caps on refugees and then continues, "As a state, we must also take all the necessary steps to be prepared to resettle families when they arrive. Events in Afghanistan echo the departure of the United States from Saigon following the end of the Vietnam War. In 1975, the United States lifted refugee caps to allow more than 125,000 families to resettle in communities across the country."

the letter notes that "the United States has admitted more than three million refugees who have resettled in this country. Though refugees and immigrants have faced and continue to face significant barriers, they continue to demonstrate their dedication to serving the public and they add immense value to our communities.

The letter is signed by

Representative Khanh Pham, HD 46
Senator Kayse Jama, SD 24

Additional signers are,

Speaker Tina Kotek, HD 44
Majority Leader Barbara Smith Warner, HD 45
Rep. Pam Marsh, HD 5
Rep. David Gomberg, HD 10
Rep. Marty Wilde, HD 11
Rep. John Lively, HD 12
Rep. Nancy Nathanson, HD 13
Rep. Julie Fahey, HD 14
Rep. Dan Rayfield, HD 16
Rep. Paul Evans, HD 20
Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon, HD 22
Rep. Courtney Neron, HD 26
Rep. Wlnsvey Campos, HD 28
Rep. Susan McLain, HD 29
Rep. Brad Witt, HD 31
Rep. Maxine Dexter, HD 33
Rep. Ken Helm, HD 34
Rep. Dacia Grayber, HD 35
Rep. Lisa Reynolds, HD 36
Rep. Rachel Prusak, HD 37
Rep. Andrea Salinas, HD 38
Rep. Mark Meek, HD 40
Rep. Karin Power, HD 41
Rep. Rob Nosse, HD 42
Rep. Tawna Sanchez, HD 43
Rep. Andrea Valderrama, HD 47
Rep. Jeff Reardon, HD 48
Rep. Zach Hudson, HD 49
Rep. Ricki Ruiz, HD 50
Rep. Janelle Bynum, HD 51
Rep. Anna Williams, HD 52
Senate President Peter Courtney, SD 11
Majority Leader Rob Wagner, SD 19
Sen. Jeff Golden, SD 3
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, SD 4
Sen. Lee Beyer, SD 6
Sen. James Manning Jr., SD 7
Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin, SD 8
Sen. Deb Patterson, SD 10
Sen. Kate Lieber, SD 14
Sen. Chuck Riley, SD 15
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, SD 17
Sen. Ginny Burdick, SD 18
Sen. Kathleen Taylor, SD 21
Sen. Lew Frederick, SD 22
Sen. Michael Dembrow, SD 23
Sen. Chris Gorsek, SD 25
Sen. Tim Knopp, SD 27
Sen. Bill Hansell, SD 29

--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2021-08-19 10:05:04

Last Update: 2021-08-19 10:24:01

Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel attributes the increase in cannabis farming in 2021 to increased activity by drug trade organizations in Southern Oregon. Even though hemp and marijuana can be legally grown in Oregon, with it comes an increase in the illegal market. There are reports of water being stolen, land being clear-cut, and threats to residence. It should have got the attention of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. After all, HB 3000 was passed to bridge the enforcement gap to crack down on illegal growers.

Josephine County Commissioners -- Darin Fowler, Dan DeYoung and Herman Baertschiger, Jr. -- got the message and discovered related issues when performing enforcement operations. They sent a letter to Governor Brown regarding Narco-slavery complete with photos.

Dear Governor Brown,

Narco-slavery occurs when organized criminal networks intimidate, relocate, exploit and abuse their laborers. Unfortunately, one consequence of cannabis legalization has been a tragic surge in narco-slavery. During recent cannabis enforcement operations, Josephine County officials have witnessed the appalling conditions to which laborers in the unsanctioned cannabis industry are subjected. Such conditions include:

• Feces everywhere
• No running water or bathing facilities
• Unrefrigerated food and dangerously unsanitary cooking facilities
• Sleeping in containers stacked three-high
• Living in tents and plywood shanties

Typically, after law enforcement releases these workers from custody they have nowhere to go. We assume that many or most workers eventually get collected by their illicit employers and relocated to the next exploitive operation. The purpose of this letter is to assist you, Director Steve Marks, Commissioner Val Hoyle and your staff in your effort to learn about the extent and severity of this problem. We want to work together with you to end this human tragedy immediately.

In 2017 Josephine County passed Measure 17-81, but when Commissioners attempted an ordinance to effectively ban commercial and medical marijuana on rural residential land of five acres or less, it got backlash from growers. Local growers appealed the ordinance to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, which ruled against the county saying it could not ban pre-existing lawful uses. The county failed on appeal also. In April 2018, the county sued the State of Oregon wanting a federal judge to disqualify cannabis as pre-existing lawful use along with other points. It could have effectively invalidated the state’s cannabis program. However, the judge ruled the county lacked standing to sue the state and it had no justiciable case or controversy exists between the parties.

Josephine County has not turned away from 62% of the county voting to curtail cannabis growing in residential areas. This letter should put growers on notice to clean up their act.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2021-08-18 18:19:26

Last Update: 2021-08-19 09:15:26

At its meeting on July 21, the Eugene City Council approved the first two Safe Sleep sites at Chase Commons Park and 2nd and Garfield.

These sites will be managed by social service providers and provide a space that homeless people can park their vehicles or sleep in tents.

In addition, the Council approved a request to expand an existing site used for medical respite at the Eugene Service Station, allowing it to serve as an additional Rest Stop location that can serve up to 12 people at any one time.

Following a review of more than 300 locations, vetting dozens of potential sites, and outreach efforts to understand community concerns staff recommended and Council approved the first two Safe Sleep sites.

Chase Commons Park: This City owned property is approximately four acres in size. After initial neighborhood and business outreach, staff have drafted a site plan that will accommodate up to 20 Conestoga huts on a portion of the site.

2nd and Garfield: This property, owned by Lane Transit District (LTD) and located at 310 Garfield Avenue, is approximately five acres and could accommodate both tents and vehicles. Staff are working with local social service providers related to operating this site.

Staff continue to assess other properties for future Safe Sleep sites, including both public and private properties. Sites will continue to be evaluated further by the Planning and Development Department and Public Works to determine suitability for siting and compatibility with public use. Additional sites will come back to City Council for approval as quickly as possible.

On April 28, the City Council approved an ordinance that allows Safe Sleep Sites to accommodate more tents or vehicles than previously allowed by City Code, up to 60 vehicles and 40 tents per site. Currently, the City anticipates the approved Safe Sleep sites will be prepared for use by the end of August. People staying at the two large temporary camps at 13th Avenue and Washington Jefferson Park will be prioritized to move into the new sites once they’re established. People living in their cars in industrial areas supposedly can move into the safe vehicle sites.

Through the City’s partnership with Lane County a number of other actions are also underway, including coordinated outreach efforts, adding permanent supportive housing units, engaging with landlords to increase affordable rental options, expanding rapid rehousing programs, and improving tenancy supports.

These efforts, when implemented together, are intended to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring, according to the City of Eugene.


--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-18 16:38:29

Last Update: 2021-08-18 16:47:24

Governor Kate Brown has issued a letter to Oregon superintendents, school board members, and education leaders, calling on them to enforce mask mandates for school children around the state.

“Throughout this pandemic, my north star for decisions about our schools has been to do what is best for our students. We know that students’ mental, physical, behavioral, social, and emotional health is best served when they can be in schools for full-time, in-person instruction,” said Governor Brown. “The Delta variant puts this goal at risk. It puts our children’s health and lives at risk. But, by again taking simple and effective precautions, we can still return our children to classrooms full-time this fall.”

The governor issued the letter in response to statements and actions from local school leaders indicating they would ignore state law.

Several school boards have passed or are considering resolutions opposing Oregon’s K-12 indoor mask requirements.

In one school district, a superintendent encouraged parents to make claims on behalf of their children by requesting mask exemptions under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Governor Brown continued: “Because that’s the thing about masks: they don’t just protect you, they protect everyone around you. Wearing a mask is an act of kindness. By wearing masks, we are teaching our children that they can protect each other in the classroom. That we can all work together to keep each other safe. When I visited classrooms this spring, I saw children who were overjoyed to be with their friends and teachers again."

Those children's smiles could not be seen by the Governor, as they were required to be in masks.

“I have heard much about personal freedom when it comes to masks in school board meetings and on social media. Without the universal wearing of masks in our schools, the Delta variant will spread.”

As with Oregon's previous K-12 mask requirements, the Governor claims that the current indoor mask requirement can be enforced by Oregon OSHA under state law.


--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-08-18 16:04:52

Last Update: 2021-08-18 16:21:21