THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021 A13
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
44°
LOW
25°
Mostly sunny and cooler
SATURDAY
40°
27°
Cloudy with a rain or snow
shower in spots
Mostly sunny
ALMANAC
FRIDAY
45°
29°
40°
27°
Partly cloudy
SUNDAY
42°
22°
Mostly cloudy
Partly sunny
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
57°
46° 66° in 1988
41°
24°
7° in 1922
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.66" in 1986
Month to date (normal)
0.43" (0.88")
Year to date (normal)
1.09" (2.41")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.21"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Wed.
Sun
6:52am/5:46pm 6:50am/5:47pm
Moon
1:43pm/4:54am 2:49pm/5:41am
Mercury 5:44am/3:43pm 5:42am/3:40pm
Venus
6:41am/5:02pm 6:41am/5:04pm
Mars
9:53am/12:49am 9:51am/12:48am
Jupiter
6:06am/3:58pm 6:03am/3:55pm
Saturn
5:45am/3:19pm 5:41am/3:15pm
Uranus 9:16am/11:11pm 9:12am/11:07pm
Full
Last
New
First
Feb 27
Mar 5
Mar 13
Mar 21
Tonight's sky: Waxing gibbous moon is
below star Pollux and Castor of Gemini, the
Twins.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
3
3
3
1
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Cloudy Tuesday with
snow showers likely, up to 1 inch.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Clouds and limited
sunshine Tuesday. Amounts up to an inch.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Mostly cloudy Tuesday
with snow showers, up to an inch.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Snow showers
Tuesday giving little or no accumulation.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Mostly cloudy
Tuesday; snow showers leaving up to an inch.
Clearing at night.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Snow showers
Tuesday, up to an inch. Clearing at night.
SKI REPORT
EAST: Mostly cloudy
and chilly Tuesday
with a few scattered
snow showers. Partial
clearing at night.
NATIONAL
Hood
River
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
49/48/2.63 46/33/sh 46/38/c
La Grande
44/32/Tr
37/25/c 37/18/pc
Portland
52/49/0.10 48/34/sh 49/37/pc
Baker City
45/24/0.00 40/23/sn 37/17/pc
La Pine
52/26/0.00 40/17/pc 39/22/s
Prineville
59/28/0.00 45/25/pc 39/26/s
Brookings
57/38/0.00 54/38/s 55/38/s
Medford
56/32/0.00 54/31/pc 54/30/s
Redmond
61/30/0.00 45/22/pc 44/26/s
Newport
48/46/0.69 46/36/pc 47/38/pc
Roseburg
58/41/Tr
50/34/pc 49/33/pc
Burns
50/19/0.00 41/20/pc 38/15/s
Eugene
56/46/0.04 50/33/pc 50/34/pc
North Bend
54/48/0.14 50/36/pc 51/38/s
Salem
53/47/0.12 47/32/c 48/34/pc
Klamath Falls
54/24/0.00 49/19/pc 42/18/s
Ontario
45/24/0.00 45/26/pc 42/20/s
Sisters
55/34/0.00 42/25/sf 42/23/s
Lakeview
49/15/0.00 43/18/pc 34/13/s
Pendleton
54/40/0.03 42/28/c 42/27/s
The Dalles
58/45/0.02 49/32/pc 49/33/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Lending
Continued from A11
First rolled out in the earliest days of the
coronavirus pandemic and renewed in
December, the program was meant to help
keep Americans employed during the eco-
nomic downturn. It allows small and mid-
size businesses suffering loss of revenue to
access federal loans, which are forgivable if
60% of the loan is spent on payroll and the
balance on other qualified expenses.
The Biden effort is aimed at correcting
disparities in how the program was ad-
ministered by the Trump administration.
Data from the Paycheck Protection Pro-
gram released Dec. 1 and analyzed by The
Associated Press show that many minority
owners desperate for a relief loan didn’t re-
ceive one until the PPP’s last few weeks while
many more white business owners were able
to get loans earlier in the program.
The program, which began April 3 and
ended Aug. 8 and handed out 5.2 million
loans worth $525 billion, helped many
businesses stay afloat when government
measures to control the coronavirus
forced many to shut down or operate at a
diminished capacity.
The latest PPP, which began Jan. 11
and runs through the end of March, has
already paid out $133.5 billion in loans —
about half of the $284 billion allocated by
Congress — with an average loan under
$74,000.
A further renewal of the program is
not included in Biden’s $1.9 trillion “
American Rescue Plan,” which he hopes
Congress will pass in the coming weeks.
Continued from A11
Indefinite checkout, please
Melanie Woods, a 39-year-
old graphic designer, left San
Francisco well before there
was word of a winter lock-
down. Since Oct. 1 —the day
Belize reopened its borders —
she’s been working out of di-
rector Francis Ford Coppola’s
rustic-luxe Turtle Inn resort,
where her desk is by a window
with a sea breeze.
“I swim for exercise be-
tween calls. On weekends, I
feel like I’m on vacation. I can
snorkel, zipline, swim,” she
says.
Belize requires travelers to
have a negative COVID-19
test upon arrival, which gave
Woods peace of mind. The
Today Wednesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
75/45/s
58/34/s
39/31/c
46/26/pc
36/30/sn 42/29/pc
59/32/s
60/34/pc
17/16/sn 27/26/sn
67/42/s
70/46/s
46/37/pc
48/39/s
76/55/s
74/50/c
49/31/pc
58/36/s
40/20/sf
33/20/c
67/40/s
70/48/s
46/23/sn 38/20/pc
42/25/s
39/20/s
42/34/pc 46/35/pc
39/34/sn
44/36/s
39/33/sn
44/26/c
39/31/sf 41/27/pc
37/26/c
39/25/pc
68/40/s
71/44/s
65/36/s
68/44/s
65/37/s
70/46/s
45/16/s
30/11/sf
42/36/pc 40/23/pc
48/36/s
51/27/pc
39/33/sf
45/25/c
57/21/s
34/18/c
57/36/s
47/27/pc
68/38/s
72/44/s
69/39/s
72/46/s
41/31/s
47/27/pc
41/30/pc 44/32/pc
76/61/s
77/61/c
75/52/s
63/42/s
41/32/s
46/24/c
56/22/pc 36/16/sf
43/30/s
38/23/c
41/31/sf
41/21/c
37/20/sn 31/16/pc
72/41/s
75/42/s
2/-1/sn
20/-1/sn
35/19/sn 32/18/pc
54/23/s
50/19/s
40/33/sf
39/20/c
40/33/c
39/19/s
61/36/s
65/42/s
45/29/c
51/36/pc
42/31/sn
46/34/s
38/20/sf 33/16/pc
82/71/pc 81/71/pc
75/53/s
71/58/c
63/39/s
67/43/s
44/35/s
47/26/pc
68/39/s
71/52/pc
70/40/s
74/44/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
61/52/pc
66/47/s
76/64/pc
65/38/s
93/76/pc
42/24/c
67/54/s
62/45/s
67/48/t
52/33/pc
76/65/s
80/61/pc
65/51/pc
33/12/sn
82/74/pc
56/47/r
54/49/sh
61/40/s
78/60/t
76/65/s
54/40/s
56/47/t
77/62/pc
75/66/pc
61/48/pc
56/52/pc
57/36/s
85/77/c
61/46/0.00
61/46/0.00
74/61/0.00
61/38/0.00
93/73/0.00
55/37/0.00
66/49/0.00
56/33/0.00
63/52/Tr
54/34/0.00
79/66/0.46
81/58/0.00
68/48/0.00
46/30/Tr
84/64/0.01
52/37/0.00
51/41/0.00
55/34/0.00
77/62/0.08
78/65/0.00
50/30/0.00
57/40/0.00
70/65/0.23
81/68/0.00
59/43/0.00
50/46/0.02
54/43/0.08
82/73/0.30
63/50/pc
66/50/s
77/63/c
67/44/c
94/76/pc
41/23/pc
66/53/s
64/44/pc
67/49/c
57/36/pc
82/69/s
83/65/pc
70/53/s
33/19/s
81/75/s
51/40/r
53/42/r
62/38/s
79/61/s
74/68/s
48/41/c
57/46/s
68/61/t
74/67/pc
63/52/pc
60/48/pc
62/41/s
88/77/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
40/36/0.11
60/28/0.00
35/27/0.14
67/40/0.00
42/38/0.09
45/21/0.00
63/28/0.06
82/48/0.00
45/40/0.03
37/24/0.09
55/39/0.29
81/70/Tr
37/30/0.16
41/24/0.01
57/44/0.14
73/51/0.00
39/32/0.52
37/26/0.54
64/30/0.49
63/26/0.00
48/15/0.00
82/55/Tr
80/51/0.00
42/28/0.05
37/30/0.51
77/46/0.00
41/30/0.10
37/11/0.35
43/18/0.56
59/33/0.41
57/28/0.00
61/26/0.00
46/29/0.31
37/25/0.10
70/37/0.00
56/36/0.01
49/32/0.00
74/48/Tr
78/45/0.00
72/46/0.00
72/43/0.00
54/24/0.00
75/48/Tr
52/49/0.66
49/15/0.00
43/36/0.03
55/27/0.00
79/62/0.06
77/35/0.00
65/27/0.00
41/32/0.41
62/25/0.00
61/41/0.00
77/53/0.00
Today Wednesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
37/33/sf
37/33/sn
65/34/s
45/26/c
40/33/sf
41/18/c
72/48/pc
71/42/s
49/37/s
52/28/pc
50/28/s
41/23/s
62/44/s
60/37/pc
78/51/s
72/51/s
56/41/s
55/31/pc
41/32/pc 38/19/pc
62/46/s
60/38/pc
82/70/sh 81/69/pc
41/35/s
40/23/c
39/28/pc 35/22/pc
61/42/s
63/35/s
69/47/s
73/58/pc
42/35/sn 48/36/pc
41/33/sn 49/35/pc
59/36/pc
63/45/s
71/37/s
54/30/s
48/30/s
40/24/s
76/52/s
79/57/pc
85/57/s
85/51/s
45/34/s
41/25/c
44/33/c
51/37/s
79/51/s
79/49/s
41/31/sf 48/28/pc
42/32/pc 44/35/pc
43/33/pc 47/36/pc
63/36/s
68/44/s
42/19/pc 35/14/pc
58/26/pc
42/18/s
59/33/pc
65/41/s
39/32/sn
45/25/c
74/45/pc
66/41/s
60/41/s
50/29/pc
46/28/pc 38/19/sf
75/57/s
75/54/pc
71/51/s
67/49/s
71/47/pc
66/46/s
74/44/pc
69/40/s
54/27/s
52/28/pc
70/41/s
73/43/s
48/34/sh 47/39/pc
45/28/pc
38/22/s
38/23/sf 38/27/pc
65/37/s
49/28/pc
74/54/s
76/58/s
81/46/s
79/46/s
71/40/s
55/33/pc
52/34/pc
61/38/s
69/34/s
49/28/pc
51/25/c
47/30/pc
81/49/s
81/50/s
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
85/65/0.03
76/46/0.00
32/12/0.19
9/6/0.12
73/63/0.34
81/70/0.07
82/55/0.00
69/41/0.01
36/34/0.07
30/16/0.15
61/48/0.02
82/74/0.29
61/41/0.00
86/52/0.00
81/68/0.00
36/18/0.12
55/36/0.00
75/58/0.00
88/75/0.00
40/36/0.00
80/70/0.15
81/55/0.00
68/44/0.00
70/50/0.00
37/27/0.08
52/41/0.20
50/37/0.00
54/28/0.00
81/65/r
75/49/pc
36/32/sf
-2/-11/s
78/58/c
81/71/pc
87/57/pc
52/33/c
38/33/c
35/28/sf
62/49/pc
83/73/s
62/42/s
89/58/s
88/66/s
32/23/sn
41/24/pc
55/44/pc
89/75/c
41/32/r
70/65/r
82/67/pc
69/55/t
57/39/pc
40/32/sf
44/31/s
57/35/pc
48/37/pc
79/56/pc
78/50/s
37/20/sn
10/8/sn
79/57/pc
81/71/s
88/59/pc
51/30/s
45/39/pc
36/14/c
64/48/s
86/75/s
63/44/s
86/57/s
84/66/t
24/20/sn
47/27/c
61/53/s
90/75/t
49/44/pc
73/68/sh
82/65/s
67/55/s
50/38/pc
41/23/c
43/37/pc
58/39/pc
56/38/pc
Yellen favors higher
company tax, capital
gains worth a look
BY SALEHA MOHSIN AND
CHRISTOPHER CONDON
Bloomberg
Treasury Secretary Janet Yel-
len said President Joe Biden
favors boosting taxes on com-
panies, and signaled openness
to considering raising rates on
capital gains, while steering
clear of a wealth levy.
“A wealth tax has been dis-
cussed but is not something
President Biden” favors, Yellen
said at a virtual conference on
Monday hosted by The New
York Times. She said such a tax
would have significant imple-
mentation problems.
The administration is look-
ing to boost the corporate tax
to 28%, Yellen said. The Trea-
sury chief said last week that
revenue measures would be
needed to help pay for Biden’s
planned longer-term economic
reconstruction program to
Remote
Extended-stay discounts,
the reopening of certain inter-
national borders, and better
awareness on the precautions
to take when traveling have
further enabled a second-wave
exodus. While socially isolat-
ing in a five-star resort may
have been a novelty at the be-
ginning of the pandemic, it’s
now a need for a certain class
of consumer.
“By October, people started
to realize they’d be facing an-
other winter in San Francisco
with no restaurants, no enter-
tainment, no offices—really
nowhere to go. They wanted
out,” says Leigh Rowan,
founder of Bay Area-based
Savanti Travel, whose clients
are buying one-way tickets
and working remotely from
beachfront villas or ameni-
ty-laden hotels.
This time, he says, they’re
not coming back until there’s
promise of a vaccine appoint-
ment.
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
72/30/0.00
Akron
39/31/0.04
Albany
31/14/0.05
Albuquerque
57/28/0.00
Anchorage
16/12/0.00
Atlanta
65/48/0.04
Atlantic City
43/30/1.13
Austin
76/35/0.00
Baltimore
38/31/0.44
Billings
53/37/0.00
Birmingham
64/53/0.05
Bismarck
54/33/Tr
Boise
51/33/0.00
Boston
38/19/0.18
Bridgeport, CT 40/21/0.54
Buffalo
38/25/0.20
Burlington, VT
32/10/0.03
Caribou, ME
28/4/0.04
Charleston, SC 73/42/0.06
Charlotte
52/36/0.43
Chattanooga
62/47/0.39
Cheyenne
49/29/0.00
Chicago
38/26/0.17
Cincinnati
40/37/0.04
Cleveland
38/31/0.05
Colorado Springs 56/22/0.00
Columbia, MO
54/29/0.00
Columbia, SC
62/42/0.09
Columbus, GA
68/50/0.12
Columbus, OH
41/34/Tr
Concord, NH
33/5/0.25
Corpus Christi
73/51/Tr
Dallas
71/34/0.00
Dayton
39/35/Tr
Denver
60/27/0.00
Des Moines
40/23/Tr
Detroit
37/29/0.10
Duluth
39/25/Tr
El Paso
67/29/0.00
Fairbanks
-11/-13/Tr
Fargo
41/28/0.00
Flagstaff
52/14/Tr
Grand Rapids
33/28/0.15
Green Bay
34/29/0.17
Greensboro
49/32/0.43
Harrisburg
39/29/0.27
Hartford, CT
38/15/0.35
Helena
50/38/0.01
Honolulu
82/72/0.02
Houston
77/49/Tr
Huntsville
57/46/0.33
Indianapolis
38/34/0.04
Jackson, MS
64/52/0.06
Jacksonville
79/47/0.05
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 87°
at Santee, CA
National low: -13°
at Estcourt Station, ME
Precipitation: 6.38"
at Stampede Pass, WA
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
1
0-70
Hoodoo Ski Area
2
0-95
Mt. Ashland
2
63-67
Mt. Bachelor
1
114-125
Mt. Hood Meadows
2
141-172
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
4
70-92
Timberline Lodge
5
0-168
Willamette Pass
0
0-60
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
46-62
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
70-115
Squaw Valley, CA
0
0-121
Park City Mountain, UT
0
55-69
Sun Valley, ID
0
88-107
Partly sunny
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
48/27
Rufus
Hermiston
43/28
48/28
47/28
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
50/29
48/30 48/34
35/22
Wasco
35/21 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Mostly
Tillamook
33/19
44/28
42/28
Sandy
49/32
McMinnville
47/32
cloudy Tuesday with
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
43/33
Maupin
Government
48/32
a few rain and snow
37/25
33/19
Camp
44/25 Condon 41/26
Union
showers. Partial clear- Lincoln City
40/24
33/23
39/24
Salem
46/37
Spray
ing and cold Tuesday
Granite
Warm Springs
47/32
Madras
44/23
Albany
32/19
night.
Newport
Baker City
45/28
46/27
Mitchell
46/36
48/30
40/23
WEST: Partly to mostly
Camp Sherman
42/22
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
cloudy Tuesday with
40/25
45/22
49/32
Day
Prineville
38/21
a few showers in the 46/39
Ontario
Sisters
45/25
Paulina
40/23
45/26
north. Gradual clearing Florence
Eugene 42/25
Bend Brothers 39/20
Vale
Tuesday night.
48/36
50/33
44/25
39/19
Sunriver
44/26
Nyssa
40/21
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
45/27
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
40/17
40/20
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
44/22
46/30
48/34
Fort
Rock
49/34
41/20
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Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
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Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
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Port Orford
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Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
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Pass
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Chiloquin
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Medford
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Gold Beach
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Klamath
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Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
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51/31
49/19
42/19
54/38
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Seaside
44/33
Cannon Beach
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24°
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Astoria
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help address concerns about
debt sustainability.
Yellen also said that a hike
in the capital gains tax might
be something “worth consid-
ering.” Asked about a finan-
cial-transactions tax, she said,
“One would have to examine
closely what effect it would
have” on ordinary investors.
Asked whether the Trea-
sury would consider issuing
a 100-year bond to take ad-
vantage of low yields, Yellen
noted that the government
already sells long-term debt.
While the Treasury could
look again at new securities,
market professionals think
the demand for a 100-year
bond “would be very tiny.”
It would “probably be a very
thin market,” she said.
The current longest-dated
Treasury note is a 30-year se-
curity.
Timbers Resorts
Some see this Kaiholo residence at Timbers Kauai as a welcome respite from the pandemic.
27-room hotel, located on
beachfront in Placencia, is
also almost entirely open-air,
making it easy to eat and so-
cialize in distanced, outdoor
settings. Rooms start at $329
a night, but extended stays
reap 20% discounts on both
accommodations and food;
Woods is renting out her
apartment back home to off-
set the expense.
“I probably won’t return un-
til summer, or when I can get
a vaccine,” she says.
Improved creativity and
productivity
Jetting off to a sandy par-
adise isn’t just a lifestyle play.
Travel adviser Rowan says
many of his clients can actu-
ally do their jobs better in a
different setting.
“Many creatives, startups,
and techies are realizing they
can meet interesting investors
in places like Oaxaca or San
Miguel de Allende,” he says.
Shawn Garvey, a 55-year-
old chief executive officer of
an energy innovation com-
pany in the Bay Area, has also
seen productivity gains from
his extended vacation in Mex-
ico. He’d been dragging him-
self into his empty office sim-
ply to stay productive.
“I was lethargic and tired.
My inspiration was declining,”
he says, adding that most of
his days consisted of “rolling
out of my bed and working
from my laptop in my under-
wear.”
His wife, Kimberley Garvey,
owns a court reporting firm
that she now runs remotely;
their three children are grown.
“For the first time in decades,
we didn’t have anything pre-
venting us from leaving,” he
says.
Now they’re living at the
Modern Elder Academy near
Todos Santos, on Mexico’s Pa-
cific coast; it was named one
of Bloomberg Pursuits’s Best
Places to Travel in 2021. A
monthlong stay for two, in-
cluding meals, costs $7,500,
which Garvey estimates is half
of the couple’s monthly living
expenses back home.
“I’ve done more here in the
last four weeks than I did all
of last year,” says Garvey, not-
ing that he and his wife are
essentially still sheltering in
place. The access to the great
outdoors has reinvigorated
his creativity, he says—when
whales breech or jump during
his Zoom calls, he tells his
co-workers they’ve earned
Mother Nature’s applause.
It’s been such a positive ex-
perience, he’s now building a
home in Todos Santos.
“From a professional per-
spective I’m not interested
in returning until the offices
are open again,” Garvey says.
“Frankly, I think clients and
collaborators react very pos-
itively to the idea that I am
here in Mexico.”
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To make up for decreased
revenues, Vandehey may have
to sell property and farm equip-
ment, according to the lawsuit.
“In the event that plaintiff is
unable to secure financing to
continue caring for and farm-
ing the damaged blueberry
bushes, plaintiff reserves the
right to replead its damages for
a total loss of the family farm.”
Vandehey is also seeking $1
million in punitive damages
because Munger Bros. acted
with “malice and a reckless and
outrageous indifference” by al-
legedly misting his elderly par-
ents with the herbicide and try-
ing to cover up the incident.
Capital Press was unable
to reach a representative of
Munger Bros. for comment on
the lawsuit. The company is a
fruit processor and packer in
addition to growing crops on
more than 3,000 acres in the
U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Before the pandemic,
the share of Oregon moms
was at its highest point in
decades, according to Josh
Lehner with the Oregon
Office of Economic Analy-
sis. That, he said, reflected
the unusually strong econ-
omy in the years prior to
the recession.
It could take years to re-
cover those gains, he said,
or it could be that a strong
recovery — accompanied
by reopened classrooms —
will rapidly bring women
back into the workforce and
provide an economic boost.
“Freeing up parents’ time
will disproportionately im-
pact moms who have lost,
or given up, their jobs and
stayed home in greater
numbers during the pan-
demic,” Lehner wrote in an
analysis published Thurs-
day.