Local SquareOffs

Take the bird feeder away and the birds will leave

You can't keep giving to people without making them responsible. Everyone should have drug tests. Everyone should have to "give back" in some way. Either by getting a job, or volunteering to the community.

I pay enough in taxes, most of the homeless want to be homeless, they get paid for doing nothing.

Only solves a portion of the real issue of mental health and alcohol and drug issues. Plus there is the concern that an influx of more homeless flooding up from the California, to get free services they are not getting there.

you must fix policy, not throw money at it. When you decriminalize hard drugs and sleeping on streets and let hard criminals out of jail it all adds up.

Oregon keeps throwing good money after bad, will not help. Recriminalize drugs , fund and respect police and how about having the homeless work..keep their camps clean, parks, other civic projects, require recurring drug tests.

Throwing good money after bad. Bring back crimalization of drugs, fund and respect for police, have the homeless work even if just cleaning their own camps, parks, etc, drug tests on a regular basis.

Get rid of measure 110 and bend needs more homeless shelters

Criminalize hard drugs and build more homeless shelters

Tina Kotak needs to criminalize hard drugs and work on mental health that's causing homelessness and build more homeless shelters

Last time I checked there was no all white college but there is black colleges, I also say they got a network bet but there's no white Network they have Awards based solely on your color, so let's stop with all this nonsense and get on with being human

Diversity training simply helps people communicate better, by helping them avoid even unintentional bias between races and cultures. It makes businesses and education function better. Sadly, the white legislators have their own biases which prevent them from recognizing this.