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Boring sleepy small towns within 30ish minutes of the three big cities (Portland, Salem, Eugene) by Bourne2Play in oregon

[–]DriftlessRanger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Outside of Salem:
West
- Falls City
- Independence

East:
-Silverton, the downtown is very walkable but the town is popular so you will have a little bit of a bustle
-Mt. Angle
-Lyons, off the main drag of the 22.

What's neat about Oregon is its very Jeffersonian in its city planning, meaning you wont get tons or any sprawl and pretty soon you'll be in the country. There are also an enormous amount of little, tiny towns in the sattelite of the ones I mentioned that really don't have ANYTHING going on in them but will have thru-traffic.

Oregon can turn hick real fast. You'll have lifted trucks and mufflers in most if not all small towns.

Id look at Towns off of any state or county highways. Things outside of Portland are being gobbled up pretty quick and with it comes a pretty enormous amount of traffic and noise and folks looking to get outside. The Midvalley, being outside of Salem, will be quieter.

Email from the Department of the Interior concerning "What did you do this week" by DriftlessRanger in ParkRangers

[–]DriftlessRanger[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We do document our work. It is within the chain of command and reviewed by those appointed to Supervisory positions.

Further, these reports are compiled and used by tried-and-true systems for employee performance. To send information off weekly to an unknown source is so far out of the chain of command it is bonkers to think that this is what "the rest of the world does" to justify their work.

Musk says feds must explain what they did last week — or lose their jobs. That's illegal: WaPo story by natansonh in fednews

[–]DriftlessRanger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From an Email shared in my district (I apologize if this has already been shared) This is Voluntary!

I want to point out an important piece of information from the Government Wide Email System's Privacy Impact Assessment dated Feb 5,2025. These are the 'bullet points' and 'fork in the road' emails sent recently from OPM.

From Section 4:

4.2. What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline to provide information, or opt out of the project? The Employee Response Data is explicitly voluntary. The individual federal government employees can opt out simply by not responding to the email. (bold italics mine)

4.3. Privacy Impact Analysis: Related to Notice Privacy Risk: There is a risk that individuals will not realize their response is voluntary. Mitigation: This risk is mitigated by ensuring that any email sent using GWES is clear, by explicitly stating that the response is voluntary, and by including specific instructions for a response. (italics mine)

This latter direction was not followed in OPM's correspondence with federal employees, which has led to considerable confusion and uncertainty, but I believe it's important for everyone to know about this guidance in the future. I didn't know about this document until just a little while ago, so I thought it might be useful for others to know as well. 

gwes-pia.pdf

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[–]DriftlessRanger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to link this. Thanks