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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
REGIONAL BRIEFING
NOMAD
Oregon Tech faculty go on strike
Oregon Tech’s faculty union has gone on strike.
Picket lines were seen Monday on the Klamath
Falls and Wilsonville campuses of the Oregon
Institute of Technology. By noon, roughly 100
people, including some students, held signs and
chanted near the school’s main entrance.
The scene marked the first facultywide strike
in the history of higher education in Oregon.
According to Oregon Tech, classes will con-
tinue as scheduled, despite the lack of profes-
sors. Erin Foley, dean of students, said classes
will be covered by full-time faculty who have
not gone on strike, part-time faculty and other
instructors brought in from outside the univer-
sity system.
President Nagi Naganathan said the school re-
mains optimistic an agreement can be reached.
Faculty union spokesperson Kari Lundgren
said the union and administration bargained
through the weekend and into Monday. Her
team heard at 5:45 a.m. that administration had
rejected their last proposal, which Lundgren
said meant a strike would be called.
Lundgren said she was “pleasantly surprised”
by the turnout on the picket line, which she said
represented a wide variety of departments and
disciplines. Faculty, even those who are not strik-
ing, said they had been locked out of their emails.
STORIES
with an Oregon
connection
Dispute over pandemic powers could
lead to Idaho government shutdown
Jessica Bruder — pictured atop Halen, her van — spent three years reporting on campsites, job sites and other
domains of those who prefer to live a life without the burden of rent and mortgages. Courtesy of Jessica Bruder
‘Nomadland,’ winner of the Best Picture Oscar, is based on a book by a former Oregon journalist
BY AMY WANG
The Oregonian
S
unday’s big winner at the Academy
Awards has an Oregon connection:
The book that inspired “Nomadland”
was written by a former reporter for
The Oregonian.
“Nomadland,” which follows a woman in
her 60s as she takes up a nomadic lifestyle af-
ter losing everything in the Great Recession,
won Best Picture. Its director, Chloe Zhao,
won Best Director, becoming the first woman
of color and the second woman ever to win
that award. Frances McDormand won Best
Actress, her third such Oscar.
To write the 288-page book “Nomadland:
Surviving America in the Twenty-First Cen-
tury,” published in 2017, Jessica Bruder trav-
eled for years throughout the West and worked
alongside her subjects at low-wage jobs.
Bruder worked in The Oregonian’s now-
closed Clackamas County bureau for nearly
two years between 2006 and 2008, primar-
ily covering breaking news, crime and the
courts.
In a recent virtual appearance hosted by
Clark College’s journalism program, Bruder,
who now teaches narrative writing at Colum-
bia University’s Graduate School of Journal-
ism, said of her book, “I would love to see it
become less relevant. I would love for people
to look at it and say, that’s crazy that things
were that way.”
“Hopefully we will actually do something
about it,” she said. “I’m worried that even if
we do get to a better place, that it will come
too late for some people.”
Noting that many of the people she met
while reporting “Nomadland” were at or near
retirement age, she added, “I did feel sadness
for America. It was only leavened by the cre-
ativity and amazing spirit of people I met on
the road, which is real and tangible.”
The people she met, she said, were at once
homogenous and “incredibly diverse” — one
person had been a McDonald’s executive in
the 1970s, while others had been on the “low
wage-earning treadmill” for decades.
“Every story was a new story and I tried to
treat it that way in the writing,” she said.
Bruder called the book a “dream project.”
She was credited as a consulting producer on
the movie and said she occasionally spoke with
McDormand on the set.
On her Twitter account Sunday night, she
posted a photo of herself clutching an Oscar in
each hand and wrote, “What a night.”
Idaho government offices and services could
start shutting down in June if the part-time Leg-
islature refuses to adjourn and leave coronavirus
pandemic decisions solely to Republican Gov.
Brad Little, officials said.
The scenario would jeopardize the effective
date of some 200 bills, including 65 critical ap-
propriations bills, that are set to become law 60
days after the Legislature adjourns.
The situation could mean money wouldn’t be
distributed for state police, schools, air and wa-
ter quality monitoring and more.
Republican House Speaker Scott Bedke said
lawmakers are looking into the concerns.
Lawmakers have put forward legislation to have
those critical measures take effect July 1 regard-
less, but attorneys with a watchdog group said that
proposed law violates the Idaho Constitution.
Lawmakers have been spending time on so-
cial issues and a power struggle with Little this
session. Little has vetoed several bills aimed at
trimming his power and increasing the author-
ity of the GOP-controlled Legislature.
— Bulletin wire reports
MAY 18, 2021 SPECIAL ELECTION
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Putting Kids First by Empowering Parents.”
“Poniendo a Los Ninos Primero Para Darle El Poder a Los Padres”
My background: I was born in Mexico and came to the US at age 5.
I became a naturalized US citizen. I am bi-lingual.
Fortunately, I went to predominately Hispanic schools in East San Jose, CA where
there was a focus on teaching what I needed to succeed in life and business.
I worked in Silicon Valley in the high-tech industry, including global supply
Management for Cisco Systems.
My husband of 24 years is a US Marine Corps veteran and businessman. We have
two children who attend Summit HS. We love Bend and the people we have met.
I want to give something back to the community and believe the best way is to get
involved with the school board.
I want kids in school full-time. I want teachers supported so they
can be Great teachers. I want parents to have a voice in what their
Children are taught.
I want your support by voting for me for the Bend-LaPine School Board Zone 1
Me sientoagradecida por suapoyo en votar para mi al Bend-LaPine
School Board Zone 1
How I would make decisions:
No. 1: Does it benefi t the student?
No. 2: Don’t just listen to parents, hear the parents.
No. 3: Do we have the resources needed?
No. 4: Ask questions.
No. 5: Don’t make things complicated.
No. 6: Keep an open mind, but not so open my brain falls out.
Having read the many statements from my opponent regarding her campaign
for a seat on School Board Zone 1, it appears she is endeavoring to lecture
the community on its failures for being white and shows little concern for
the actual responsibilities of this position. I believe schools are for
educating our children and preparing them for success
in the world by teaching them proper English so they can
communicate well, basic mathematics so they can deal with
work and personal financial issues, and, most of all, the
ability to think so they can form their own opinions based
on what they read and hear. It appears my opponent prefers to
indoctrinate them into her way of thinking so that political correctness supplants
the educational process. My opponent doesn’t focus on kids or students. She
doesn’t mention teaching in any context except for teaching in a racial bias sense.
She is self absorbed and views the board position as a way of providing penance
for her whiteness, her white fragility.
We need school board members that put kids, parent’s opinions and teaching fi rst,
not themselves and not unions.
Th is ad is paid for by the Dauenhauer Living Trust for School Board ID 21253
Maria Lopez-Dauenhauer
(dow-en-how-er)
Bend-LaPine School Board Zone 1
What I advocate:
• Students should be PROUD to be American
• Students should be PROUD of their school
• Students should be PROUD of WHO they are
• Schools should EDUCATE not indoctrinate
• Politics should NOT be in the classroom unless
you’re teaching civics
• Teen suicide prevention
• Bullying education to prevent teen suicide
Maria endorses:
Zone 2: Wendy Imel WendyforSchools.com
Zone 4: Gregg Henton HentonforSchools.com
Zone 7: Jon Haff ner Haff nerforSchools.com
My opponent:
• My opponent describes herself as a white savior.
Supports progressives and radical activists.
• Teachers unions over teaching.
• Her involvement with “RV Gate” She sends a letter to
the City of Bend and other local agencies asking to
restrict tourism and a month later she sets up her RV at
Mt. Bachelor as an Airbrib.
• To support her experience claim
From the Bend Bulletin January 31, 2020, my
opponent and her husband are accused of committing
bank, business and mail fraud by my opponent’s
father-in-law
• My opponent says I shouldn’t be running because
“She’s not from here”. I was born in Mexico.
• Her fi nale, she posted pictures of our
house and family on Facebook in a threatening
manner.
I want your support by voting for me for the Bend-LaPine
School Board Zone 1
Me siento agradecida por su apoyo en votar
para mi al Bend-LaPine School Board Zone 1