CHEERS & JEERS: Feds Wanna Count Corvallis Out
March 12, 2021
CHEERS to our county going from Hellfire Damnation Risk Level to Purgatory Risk Level, or as the state put it, from Extreme Risk to High Risk. We’re talking, of course, about our county’s COVID risk level. Businesses will be less restricted, but no word yet on the state sending us a merit badge.
JEERS to the feds looking to statistically toss Corvallis into funding limbo. Let us explain: Corvallis is currently considered a Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is important because that’s how the feds decide funding for a town like ours – think everything from Medicare reimbursements to transportation, and bunches in between. Anyhoo, the minimum MSA headcount for these last 70 years has been 50,000 souls per town – the new proposed minimum would be 100,000. Btw, if we get merged with some larger town’s stats, that’d suck for our fair burg’s economic development endeavors. Soooo, here’s how to email you