STRONG Salem

STRONG Salem is for everyone who wants to help and participate in getting Salem, Oregon, to quit chasing Growth Ponzi Scheme plans and instead become a resilient, fiscally responsible place that lives by the wisdom that "Communities exist for the health and enjoyment of those who live in them, not for the convenience of those who drive through them, fly over them, or exploit their real estate for profit."

Monday, May 13, 2019

Position Available: STRONG Salem editor/curator (aka blogger)

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Your humble reporter is relocating from Salem soon, so this blog will either have to retire or to find a new editor/curator/writer/activist ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Well Done to the Salem City Council for Refusing to Throw More Good Money After Bad

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Congratulations to the Salem City Council for being willing to walk away from a sucker’s deal on a fancy new bridge, with a liar’s budget of...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Letter to the Mayor and City Council

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9 February 2019 Honorable Chuck Bennett, Mayor of Salem and the Salem City Council RE: The Need to End the Salem River Crossing E...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Stay Tuned for Similar Analyses for Salem

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Terrific article at StrongTowns.org about an analysis a guy did for Denver, CO , showing that, surprise! The downtown neighborhoods pay t...

LOVESalem morphs into STRONG Salem

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Now that it appears that the threat of the gigantic billion-dollar-boondoggle of the "Salem River Crossing" is finally going to go...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Something hopeful for a change

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Thursday, June 7, 2018

This is what happens when Americans don't bother voting - a society where we expect tiny children to master lockdown drills rather than expecting politicians to stand up to NRA terrorists

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Sunday, June 3, 2018

Bring some sunlight into Oregon's tax picture

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This is a great idea : Although this is somewhat late -- now that businesses have successfully almost eliminated corporate taxation in Orego...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Libraries: What Salem needs a lot more of, in a lot more places

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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. ― Anne Herbert Derived fro...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Beautiful Evidence of an Ugly Predicament

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https://earther.com/this-climate-visualization-belongs-in-a-damn-museum-1826307536 Climate chaos deniers hate being called climate chaos ...
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