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6:35 Todd Sheets Todd Sheets, author of the Newsletter, On Wealth and Progress, currently available free of charge on Substack and of the book, 2008: What Really Happened
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My original plan was to add one more post in the “On Tariffs and Trade” series, but over the weekend and then especially on Monday President Trump’s escalating feud with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has suddenly taken center stage. As a headline in yesterdays The Wall Street Journal online noted, “Dow Drops 972 Points, Dollar Slides as Trump Renews Fed Attacks”.
I agree with the President that the Fed has played a primary role in creating many of our current problems, that it has not been held accountable for its mistakes, and that it is deeply in need of reform. But I disagree with the President on what exactly those problems are and how they should be fixed.
President Trump is frustrated with the Fed for failing to ease monetary policy to help markets adjust to his new tariff proposals. His threatened solution is to make the Fed more accountable to the President so that he can push for lower interest rates. But, paradoxically, market interest rates have been moving up as fears of recession and a return to easy monetary policies have grown. In an upcoming post, I’ll devote more time to the range of factors behind this unusual bond market reaction, but for now let’s focus on the Fed. – READ MORE – https://toddsheets.substack.com/p/fixing-the-fed-part-1
7:10 Greg Roberts, www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report
7:35 Kevin Gill from Clouser Drilling and CJ Nugent from Nugent Drilling – who have just founded the group Oregon Water Unity on Facebook, sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/970596135132960
Our talk today was how SB1154 threatens well owners property rights and water.
While the OGWA supports the concept of addressing areas with groundwater contamination as outlined in ORS 468B, SB 1154 is a significant overreach and erodes private property rights and proposes to remove land from buildable housing stock rather than prescribe remedies. Specifically, the OGWA opposes the bill for the following reasons:
- Trespass on Private Property SB 1154 gives the state unrestricted access to enter private property to inspect residential subsurface sewage disposal systems (septic systems). Currently, the State may not enter private property without a warrant for a lawful purpose unless they have been given permission to do so by the property owner. Anything less is a serious transgression and erosion of private property rights.
- Housing Prohibition SB 1154 grants counties the authority to deny building in a ground water quality management area. In most cases, there are advanced purification processes available to address contamination; however, there should be a requirement for full disclosure prior to the transfer of property which would allow an owner to install the necessary treatment system. This is a better alternative than removing otherwise buildable land.
- County Prohibition on Wells Counties should not be granted the authority to determine if a well can be installed for domestic uses. This is not within the counties’ scope of expertise. Rather, counties should be able to report any issues and problems to the Oregon Water Resources Department.
- Backflow Prevention Device Costs SB 1154 with the -1 amendment does not address the cost of the backflow prevention device. Should a declaration of a ground water quality management area result in a requirement to install a backflow prevention device in an area where it would otherwise not be required, we recommend that a process for cost sharing or other financial assistance for the homeowners be put in place to help offset the cost of installation of the devices. The OGWA would also like to see clarification as to whether a double check backflow is sufficient and whether it should be regularly inspected and maintained.
- Standing Section 4 of the -1 amendment states that “Within a reasonable time after completion of the draft agency assessment and outreach plan under ORS 468B.177, the lead agency, in consultation with the interagency team, shall appoint a ground water management committee. The ground water management committee shall be composed of at least seven members representing a balance of interests in the area affected by the declaration, including at least one homeowner or tenant that relies on a domestic well for drinking water that has been affected by the contaminant of concern.”
While homeowners and tenants who rely on the well for drinking water should be included, the OGWA believes that failure to narrow the groundwater management committee to legitimately affected parties opens the gates for outside influencers to drive the process that is counter to groundwater protection and equitable access. Choosing the committee should not be an arbitrary decision but rather, specifically include expertise in groundwater issues.
Overhaul of Policies without Adequate Input SB 1154 represents a rushed overhaul of Oregon’s Groundwater Protection statutes without consultation with the regulated community or other impacted stakeholders. It.proposes changes to Oregon’s groundwater protection statutes, including changes involving at least 6 different state agencies (DEQ, ODA, OWRD, DLCD, OHA, DOGAMI). The bill also proposes changes to agency processes including agency and local community responses to areas of groundwater concern and management. More broadly, its proposed changes touch on many other major policy areas including water and private property rights, and land use and development. This bill is being described as a “Groundwater Quality Act Reform Bill,” but dropped late in session with no meaningful discussion or prior engagement with stakeholders. It also imposes significant new responsibilities on state agencies that will require new capacity funding.
- Quantity Restriction Section 20 places a 5,000 gallons per day (gpd) limit. If SB 1154 is truly about water quality, there is no place for a limitation of quantity.
- Comingling With regard to addressing commingling wells, the OGWA believes it is something that should be encouraged; however, the problem is largely a result of historical State well construction management practices. For this reason, it does not seem fair or reasonable to expect well owners to bear the full cost of replacing their commingling wells.
8:10 Michael Sellers, Director of Operations for Josephine County and a discussion on the alleged violations of county policy regarding his compensation and other issues. Michael wishes to “clear the air” of accusations leveled by former Budget Officer and County Commissioner Simon Hare.
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6:35 Eric Peters, Automotive Journalist at www.EPAutos.com with more great conversaion on transportation, politics, your vehicles
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/04/23/air-bags-for-people-not-in-the-car/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/04/22/2025-hyundai-santa-cruz/
7:10 State Senator Noah Robinson discusses the repeal to the Wildfire Mapping Bill, other legislative concerns, education, much more.
8:10 Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, Jr., PharmD. is Senior Science Adviser to the Men’s Health Network and a Past-Chair/Chair-Emeritus of the American Public Health Association and former Alumni Association Board Member of Columbia University School of Public Health.
RFK Jr. to announce plan to eliminate artificial dyes from food some of which are made from petroleum-based and may cause behavioral issues in children
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8:40 Open for Business with Ryan Westfall from Max Energy www.MaxEnergySC.com and they clean solar panels to keep your power from the sun at Max level, also many other services involving roof, gutters, etc.
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6:35 Joseph Vazquez. MRC Business Associate Editor
Earth Day today prompts a wave of climate coverage, the Media Research Center believes it’s essential for media outlets to hear the full story — including the ideological and financial forces driving today’s environmental movement.
MRC Business, in partnership with Bongino Report, conducted a three-month investigation into the Soros empire’s reach into the global climate-change movement. We uncovered a vast radical leftist network of hundreds of powerful Soros-funded grassroots organizations, universities, and intern
We talk about How Soros-funded climate networks are influencing U.S. policy and elections in the name of environmental justice.
- The real risks Green New Deal-style policies pose to American workers, families, and small businesses.
- How activist groups exploit crises — from pandemics to wildfires — to fast-track radical climate agendas.
- The behind-the-scenes push to embed unelected climate activists into key policymaking roles.
7:10 Leah Vukmir, a former pediatric nurse practitioner and Wisconsin state senator, is the Senior Vice President of State Affairs at the National Taxpayers Union. Leah and I discuss SB533 in the Oregon Senate…could it cement more badness in prescription drug pricing?
340B issue
340B was supposed to help patients—not help hospitals build new wings. Taxpayers are footing the bill while big hospital systems pocket the profits. Expanding this broken program without fixing it just means more waste and fewer answers. The 340B program is a textbook case of mission creep.
When Drug Discounts Don’t Help Patients, Something’s Gone Wrong
Oregonians deserve a healthcare system that puts patients first, not one that rewards profit-hungry corporations. Unfortunately, state lawmakers are considering a policy that does just the opposite.
Expanding the 340B Drug Pricing Program might sound like a win for vulnerable communities on paper. It was created in the early 1990s to help low-income and uninsured patients access medications at a lower cost. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I saw firsthand how vital that mission can be. But after decades of expansion without oversight, the program is now being manipulated by powerful healthcare systems that have learned how to turn patient aid into corporate revenue.
Here’s how it works. Drug manufacturers are required to offer steep discounts on medications to eligible providers. But instead of passing those savings on to patients, many hospitals and pharmacies charge insurers—and taxpayers—full price, pocketing the difference. That’s not a public health solution. That’s a business model.
Worse, the savings often don’t stay in the communities the program was designed to serve. A recent report from the Pioneer Institute found that nearly half of Oregon’s contract pharmacies operating under 340B are located in high-income neighborhoods. That means patients in rural areas and low-income zip codes—the very people this program was meant to support—are often the least likely to benefit from it.
A current proposal before Oregon’s legislature would force manufacturers into more of these contracts – regardless of whether they’re working, effective, or even tied to care in underserved communities. That’s not a policy aimed at helping people. That’s a policy written to benefit big health systems and pharmacy chains that have learned how to extract millions from a broken program.
This bill doesn’t fix what’s wrong with 340B. It cements the worst parts of it.
In states that have taken similar approaches, the consequences are being felt. In Utah, expanding contract pharmacy mandates was projected to cost taxpayers nearly $2 million in lost drug rebates in just one year. In North Carolina, hospitals participating in 340B were found charging cancer patients five times what their medication cost—while billing state health plans and keeping the profits. Minnesota’s 2023 data shows hospitals there netted more than $630 million through the program—and that might only be half the story.
And these policies come with legal risks. The 340B program is governed by federal law, not state law. Multiple states that tried to impose mandates like this are now facing lawsuits. In fact, a federal court recently blocked a similar policy in West Virginia for overstepping constitutional boundaries. Oregon could find itself in the same position—embroiled in legal challenges while taxpayers foot the bill.
This doesn’t have to be a partisan issue. You can believe in affordable medications and still oppose handing more power to large systems that haven’t proven they’ll use it responsibly. Patients deserve better. Taxpayers deserve better.
Real reform means restoring transparency and accountability to the 340B program—ensuring that discounts negotiated in the name of vulnerable patients actually reach those patients. That starts with asking the right questions: Where are the savings going? Are medications truly more affordable at the counter? Are communities with the greatest need actually being served?
As someone who’s spent my career both treating families and managing public budgets, I’ve seen what happens when programs lose their purpose. Oregon has a choice. You can either lock in a broken system, or you can lead on reforms that put patients, not profits, first.
8:10 Medford Ward 4 City Councilman Nick Card. We have a good talk on the frustration of dealing with state restrictions on the cities, and a deep dive on what we know so far about the proposal from the Eugene Emeralds ball team to move to Oregon, assuming taxpayers build the team a 90 million dollar ball stadium.
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MUST READ – LINK FOR “ORDER OF LOVE” Essay I’ve been referencing the last couple shows. It’s pretty clear the Dems are practicing an inverted, corrupt version of “love”. Sean Ring’s piece – https://dailyreckoning.com/the-order-of-love/
6:35 James Thorp, MD, Co-author of Sacrifice: How the Deadliest Vaccine in History Targeted the Most Vulnerable.
Sacrifice documents the true story of a very respected doctor of maternal fetal medicine, who in 2020, finds his entire profession has lost its mind, as well as its soul. He finds himself in the predicament of “The Obsolete Man” in Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. As his colleagues all around him take the bribe money, drink the Kool-Aid, and push the shots, James Thorp is one of the few ObGyns to bear witness and broadcast the multitude of pregnancy complications including miscarriage, stillbirths, and many others resulting from the shots.
Dr. Thorp is one of a rare few doctors from the maternal-fetal medicine realm who publicly protested the Covid shots as directly deadly to unborn babies—his patients. He witnessed the carnage on a daily basis firsthand. He documented it, published papers, and spoke up on countless media platforms, and in Senate hearings in Washington, DC. He was terminated, without any cause, and went on to campaign around the country, to get the truth out. This is his story.
More about James: Dr. James Thorp, author of Sacrifice: How the Deadliest Vaccine in History Targeted the Most Vulnerable, is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist (Ob/Gyn) and maternal fetal medicine physician with over forty-four years of obstetrical experience. He saw over 27,500 high-risk pregnancies in four and a half years while serving one of the largest Catholic Health Care systems, SSM Health, of St. Louis, MO. Dr. Thorp is currently the chief of Maternal and Prenatal Health at The Wellness Company. He served as a reviewer for major medical journals, on the board of directors for the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine, and as an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology. He served in the US Air Force as an obstetrician gynecologist. Dr. Thorp testified in the US Senate under the Bush administration in 2003 and with Senator Ron Johnson and others in 2022. Dr. Thorp is active in clinical research with approximately 275 publications of which seventy are COVID-19 related. He is a coauthor of The COVID-19 Vaccines & Beyond.
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7:10 Michael O’Neill Landmark Legal Foundation – www.LandmarkLegal.org
Today an update on the 7-2 Supreme Court pausing of Illegal alien flights out of the country. What happens if hearings are required for EVERYONE needing kicked out??
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers with today’s “Where Past Meets Present” – www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The City of Phoenix
By Dennis Powers
The first resident of what later became Phoenix was Samuel Colver, who in 1851 took out a donation land claim. He had studied law in Indiana, served as a Texas Ranger, was with General Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto, and later served as an Indian scout. He built a cabin on what is presently Highway 99 in Phoenix. With the discovery of gold in Jacksonville, miners and settlers came into the Rogue Valley in numbers, including around where Colver had his land. In 1854, he laid out the town, which was known then as Gasburg.
As the story goes, numbers of young bachelors were in the town and working at the local flour mill, but with very few young, marriageable women. Kate Clayton was helping to cook for the men at the mill and had different admirers. She was about twenty years old, but had a remarkable ability to carry on different conversations with her smitten men, while she was cooking at the same time. Owing to her skills at conversation and not missing an order, she received the nickname of “Gassy Kate.” When the men were deciding on the name for the town, the men came to naming it after Kate as “Gasburg.”
The owner of the grist mill was Sylvester Wait, who was also an agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. When the post office was established at the mill in 1857, he took the large metal, insurance-company plate and attached it to the front of his building as the name of the post office. Although it took time for the residents to stop calling the town as Gasburg, it eventually took the name on the post office of Phoenix.
When the railroad came through in 1884, Phoenix was on the line and a possible nominee for the county seat. Nearby Medford won the nod and became the county seat and largest city in Jackson County. The city of Phoenix was incorporated in 1910 when the area’s Orchard Boom was taking place.
Phoenix was and still is centrally located in being close to Medford. Residents lived in homes built over time and commuted to jobs that changed from lumbering, orchards, and agriculture to technology, medical, tourism, and more service oriented.
In 2020, the Almeda Fire ripped up I-5 through the Rogue Valley, impacting parts of Phoenix, but not as bad as neighboring Talent. Since then, resident houses basically have been rebuilt, and the city has a new fire station and Blue Heron Park (FEMA funds). However, its loss of mobile homes has not been so replaced. For example, Oregon’s housing department became involved in rebuilding the Royal Oaks Manor mobile home park. Unfortunately, its purchase of 140 modular housing units for $24 million proved to be defective with water leaks and mold, so it began auctioning off units for “22 cents on the dollar,” paying $170,700 per unit but then receiving $37,200 back.
Phoenix still stands out in its drive to rebuild with its residents, however, and that is commendable.
Sources: Dennis Powers, Where Past Meets Present, Ashland, Oregon: Hellgate Press, 2017, “Phoenix” (Pp. 382-384); Tammy Asnicar, “Next Stop: Gasburg?,” Mail Tribune, April 24, 2016; “Phoenix, Oregon: History of the City,” at its website; Google, “Royal Oaks Mobile Home Park, Phoenix, Oregon, Auction,” for the latest.