Multnomah County seeks to delay counting homeless for a year, citing coronavirus risks
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
A homeless camp managed by the City of Portland along SE Water Avenue Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Mark Graves/Staff
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The federally required count of homeless people in the Portland area, conducted as part of a uniform national count every two years, will likely be delayed for a year, due to officials’ worries about coronavirus risks to survey-takers.
Although the number of people living on the streets appears to be increasing in Portland and the rest of Multnomah County, the city-county Joint Office of Homeless Services has asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for approval not to count or survey homeless people living outside shelters.
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Is a there any music group more offensive right now than the artists (and I use that term lightly) formerly known as Lady Antebellum?
Like many liberals and Leftist, the Grammy-winning Country music trio became born-again woke in the wake of the George Floyd protests, and decided to drop the “Antebellum”. They opted for “Lady A”, because of Antebellum’s connection to the Civil War. Antebellum/Lady A said on social media that “Lady A” was,
“the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start.”
“When we set out together almost 14 years ago, we named our band after the Southern ‘antebellum’ style home where we took our first photos. As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us[…].
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