One of the biggest problems this state has is that it is still transitioning from
But I've lived in several other states, including 4+ years each in New York, California, and Maine. I have yet to see any other state that does nearly as poor a job managing its resources or funding its basic social obligations as Oregon does.
a resource-based economy to ???? (something else, we just don't know what) ....
By the numbers, our biggest industry is agriculture -- except that a lot of
urban elite have problems with cattle ranching and forestry. The biggest
source of school funding used to be timber sales. Now, the coastal com-
munities have idiots protesting about the harvest of 70-80 year old trees
from the Tillamook burn because it's "old growth".
The excesses of the Reagan-era cuts were awful, but when even the Bill
Clinton forest plan got stuck in the courts, well, that makes life in Portland
look pretty rosy compared to a lot of rural communities.
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