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on The Oregon State Hospital Today
posted 2 years, 1 month ago
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on Question Time
Why not an all non-typical candidates TOL day? I think it would be interesting... Give time (15 minutes?) to various candidates from Governor to Senator to House to debate each other. The soloflex guy versus the green party guy!!! Expands the voter conciousness, opens the mainstream people to new ideas, offers a platform for unheard from individuals who serve an important role in our democracy.
It should be called 'The alternative debate.'
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Question Time
"rich people have lots of earnings via capital gains--while poor peoples' earnings are exclusively earned income"
BINGO!
How does Dudley see capital gains being different from earned income in terms of stimulating the economy...? Would he structure the capital gains cut so that it only rewards companies putting people to work in Oregon or would it just be across the board capital gains tax?
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Esperanza Spalding
Who are your musical influences?
Any particular artist's who influenced you to choose the stand up bass?
I love hearing vastly different artists join each other for collaborations. Could you see yourself doing an album with, for example, Cool Nutz or Sleater Kinney?
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
hahaha ... nutrional content of school lunches won't effect future generations? sounds like Bruun is a socialist trying to serve Oregon school kids government SOYLENT GREEN!! AHHH!!
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
Great response Emily. I found Bruun to be exactly as I suspected, rude and condesending. Meanwhile I find Schrader exactly opposite - thoughtful and pointed. Nice to hear things get a little nasty on TOL!!! LOL
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
better $2000 to help my sick dog (and he was an awesome vet) rather than helping Bear Streans earn another million off my 15 thousand in savings from our 401Ks.
no offense, john in gervais.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: 5th District
actually, i believe the Bruun construction company was started from his fathers hard work. he leveraged his fathers work, passed the company on and flys around in his private jet (yes, really) to golf in exotic places for the weekend. Sounds like a guy who will stand up for my middle class rights...pfft.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Primary Election 2010
Agreed. The bank idea is a good one that us as citizens should encourage the State legislator to pursue.
As for the results, shocking to see Castillo get a run for her money.
Dudley winning sets up an interesting contrast in style for the Governor race. I think Alley would be a better choice as Governor but Dudley got the votes and obviously the voters like something about him. I'm dissapointed in the choice, personally. Kitz will get my vote. Stability is a good thing at this point in time.
posted 3 years ago
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on The State of the State Hospital
If anything I could take from the show, it seemed TOL could stand to do a follow up show on OSH in the near future. Perhaps you could advocate for that and your inclusion in a future show?
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on The State of the State Hospital
Those numbers ARE accurate despite Mrs Strickland "believing" they "couldn't have jumped 4-fold" ---- breaking news, they HAVE jumped four fold the last several quarters, overall.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on The State of the State Hospital
There is an utter lack of cohesive work being done on the whole. From management and front line staff not on the same page and refusing to show mutual respect. To legislators and DHS upper leaders refusing to listen to lower level management who work with patients daily. To consumer advocates refusing to budge on many issues nor willingly working with people in charge of patients and hospital administration.
As someone who has worked in a direct care position at OSH (both Portland and Salem) for close to 10 years, I find the situation heart breaking because the basics of getting positive, lasting, meaningful changes agreed upon will not happen at the current rate we are at. A new building will gloss this over for a few years, decades...etc but this problems we are all upset about now will only persist in the long term. The communication triangle is dysfunctional.
The biggest issue from a patient perspective - no community housing. There is basically no housing available. I've seen patients get better, stablize only to get depressed and back down again all because they cannot get them back into community housing. Patients who are stable will wait for months, even years to get discharged.
Lastly, the mandate issue is a big one as is the infrastructure problem. The biggest issue from my perspective is different and has not been discussed internally to any real degree: the people in charge of caring for patients on a daily basis are generally not well trained, generally have no experience/background in mental health to speak of and are usually supported by an RN or two (who also recieve little to no mental health training) and one management person who is also an RN. We need more support on a daily, hourly basis from trained mental health clinicians. Currently these clinicians never join the patient milieu and only do 45 minute groups, no individual therapy to speak of and no support/training on a regular basis for staff who are caring for patients 24 hours a day. THAT is what MUST change!!!
A private psychiatric hospital which must get people better to stay in business would not be run this way. They have at least one or two mental health clinicans running the ward milieu at all times. RN's are not mental health clinicians.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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