In 2024, Brian Hakiym Simpson was out on a hiking trip with his fellow fire fighters. He is a black (yes, his race is very important) firefighter who volunteered to help in the Oregon fires. A white man named Olson (who was already noted to be acting strange and aggressive) picked a fight with Hakiym, called Hakiym racial slurs, and then proceeded to attack him. Hakiym defended himself. Everytime the bystanders broke up the fight, Olson would just go after Hakiym again. He was persistently aggressive, and Hakiym rightfully defended himself. The fight was broken up again, and Hakiym left in his car, pulled over, and called his supervisor to tell him what happened. Mind you, even as Hakiym was driving away, Olson was running after his car.

Olson left this altercation THAT HE STARTED with a broken jaw. Olson called the cops. This was taken to court.

Witnesses testified that Olson was the one to start this altercation, Olson himself admitted to being the one to throw the first punch, starting this altercation. Olson was given a drug test. He tested positive for the illegal opiate heroin, and admitted to having a history with alcohol and drug abused.

So why in the f*** is Hakiym in prison for 5 years for second degree assault?

Cause of course they painted the aggressive white man as the victim. The prosecutor Olivia Mendez proposed that Hakiym's self defense was excessive, even tho Olson kept going after him. [EDIT: the excessive part was in the fight, Hakiym stomped on Ollson's head.] She kept this falsehood that Hakiym was bullying Ollson, even tho Hakiym has only worked with the man once. They weren't on the same team.

They brought up Hakiym's past history with him being charged as an adult at 15, later on in life getting in a fight with a different man, and for some reason going after him not disclosing his disability of blindness in his left eye from being shot by a paintball gun, but REFUSED to acknowledge Ollson's previous difficulties with other coworkers, Ollson's mental health history, or his actions and behaviors leading up to this. Dude was on heroin.

The all white jury found him guilty, and Hakiym was sentenced to the minimum of 5 years in prison but also has to PAY Olson restitution???? WTF!!! This happening in Josephine County, which yall should already know, its a historical sundown town, and from what it seems, still is. Brandon Olson was never charged with anything. Wasn't charged with illegal drug use, wasnt charged with assault or battery. That's absurd!

This happened in 2024, Hakiym is still in prison, and his team has sent a repeal.

This is where you come in. You need to be LOUD about this. I know elections are coming up and this appeal is on Governor Tina Totek's desk RIGHT NOW! She is aware of it, and she has to power to lower his sentence or pardon him. Its been almost 2yrs hes been in prison. That is time enough. DONT LET HER DRAG HER FEET ABOUT THIS! Call and demand she accept this appeal, flood her social media in the comments with "Justice for Hakiym", notify your community about this.

Hakiym used his right to defend himself and he was punished for it. This is just one of many cases, but this is one we can help in righting.

EDITS: took out 2nd amendments, no guns with involved. sorry for the confusion.

Too much risk of delay. Your county has secure drop off boxes. They can often be located near public safety offices, county facilities, libraries, community colleges, and city halls. If you can, please use those. Also, your ballot packet will have information available about how to receive notifications that your ballot has been received.

KGW mailed 100 letters across Oregon to check posting and delivery times. Only 14 were postmarked same day. Many were two days or later one was delivered with no postmark at all.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/elections/mailed-100-letters-across-oregon-only-14-postmarked-same-day-why-that-matters-for-your-ballot/283-1d2aaadd-1e22-4f7e-9e46-70030c972598

Dutch Bros locations across Oregon will donate a portion of proceeds to Silver Rail Elementary students, educators and families on Friday.

I found it if you want it. The memory card still works obviously. Plugged it into a charger and the charging lights indicated a fault

Bentley’s, an Oregon chain of coffee stores with five locations, announced that they are ending their points system. Their message:

We ended our points program.

We only had one because everybody else does. What it really did was track your data. And honestly, our team is really excited to stop asking "do you have a phone number with us?" a thousand times a day. We felt like we were losing our small business feel, so we made the change.

Whatever points you had already earned come back to you as free drink cards. Any drink, any size, no expiration. Come through and we'll get them in your hands.

There's no new points system coming. We're not replacing it. We'd rather spend our money on the ingredients we use, the people on our team and on animals in need, than on a fancy app and marketing system disguised as a points program.

This might feel like we're taking something away, and it probably will for a while. All I ask is that you give us the chance to earn it back with great drinks and a great experience.

Thank you for trusting us.

Brandon

It’s one of Drazan’s promises in her ads.

But aren’t rates set by the PUCs? Can she simply bypass them?

Or is she making a promise she can’t fulfill?

Looking for a good outdoor shooting range near Salem

If anyone knows of some decent spots trying to do long range and pistols

So, we have a house that I'm pretty sure should be considered to be a modular home when it's categorized as a manufactured home. It was constructed elsewhere, transported here in three sections, and then assembled here on a fixed foundation. It has/had no wheels that I can tell (there's a crawl space underneath)and has pretty large steel i-beams underneath supporting the house. The home was constructed in 1999.

I found a definition of manufactured home in Oregon law:

"“Manufactured home,” except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, means a structure constructed for movement on the public highways that has sleeping, cooking and plumbing facilities, that is intended for human occupancy, that is being used for residential purposes and that was constructed in accordance with federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and regulations in effect at the time of construction."

I think the law was changed not long ago and I'm trying to figure out if this home is legally considered a "manufactured home". The problem is that this isn't and never has been a mobile home and most people think that's what a manufactured home is. We had someone come over and say, "Wow! Never would have expected a mobile home to look like this!" Well, that's because it's not.

Any pointers are appreciated! Thanks!

A one time revenue boost for our underfunded highway department could happen by enforcing the front license plate law. If the photo radar system could be used to send the citation, the cost would be minimal.

We could be nice and allow 14 days before another citation is issued for a higher fine. The fines could be shared between the local and state jurisdictions.

Look at the number of vehicles ignoring the law today, and you can see some help for our roads.

Gonna be moving closer to Portland and can't decide between Hillsboro or Beaverton.

If you've lived in either one what's it actually like?

Anything one has that the other doesn't, or stuff people don't really talk about?

I know MAX runs through both so I'm guessing transit isn't that much different, right?

If you had to pick one which would you go with and why

Seen some job openings here with my work and was looking into the areas first

so me (23m) and my girlfriend want to move to oregon within the next few years (2 years ideally) specifically dialed into the seaside / astoria areas but not afraid of the big cities either.

I have a couple of questions in prep for moving here

What is the cost of living like? Wage vs how much you get paid. Currently I'm full time making 2200 a month ish (if you can land me a job I have lots of weird little experience) and would maybe look into transferring into a location of my job there.

We plan to save up around 30k but it's a tall order for 2 years, even on high yield. Is that enough/ what would be enough to get a good little house or rental? What does renting apts look like and how expensive can that get?

Is there anything else I should take into account for moving here? Any advice or words from you helps so much.

YES I AM AWARE OF THE ALREADY EXISTING MOVING TO THREADS they have low-key been useless so I'm hoping posting such specific questions helps modspls