In downtown Portland, they re the only one at the office
White collar workplaces sit empty, except for pockets of resistance, across the Portland metro area
The office used to be a compulsory home-away-from-home. You had to go in, you had to commute, you had to look busy to get your check. It was a place to work, network, brainstorm, gossip, banter and mingle with your unchosen family.
COVID-19 put paid to that.
Work from home (WFH) became a way of life for anyone who doesn t work with their hands or directly with people, and many folks haven t seen their cubicle since March.
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By early 1967, just months after Ronald Reagan’s election as governor, James Q. Wilson had already tired of East-Coasters’ new favorite pastime, “Explaining California.” So the California-born Harvard professor penned a firsthand account of growing up in Long Beach, “to try to explain what it was like at least in general terms, and how what it was like is relevant to what is happening there today.” As Wilson explained in “A Guide to Reagan Country,” Reaganism reflected a southern Californian individualism focused not on changing the world but on improving your own small part of it your home, your yard, and, before you were old enough for any of that, your car.
Local View: Students weren’t reading anyway then the virus came
From the column: Call it the out-smartphone if it has the power to distract us when it’s not even in the same room.
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Aaron R. Boyson | 8:00 am, Jan. 17, 2021 ×
From 2010 to 2018, leisure reading dropped from 20 minutes to 16 minutes per day. You know, like reading the Opinion section of a newspaper. Take out the elderly, and it drops to six minutes per day less than an hour a week.
Nobody wants more 2020 drama, but one of the worst things about last year went basically unnoticed. It was detailed in a book, not even a new book. It was the second edition of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize when it was released a decade ago. The book diagnosed a new normal, whereby the internet splays attention, fractures thinking, and reconstitutes reading.
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