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Old social media posts on Instagram popularize site, leading to injuries and fatalities

Old social media posts on Instagram popularize site, leading to injuries and fatalities

Old social media posts popularize a site in a remote location in the Oregon Cascades, leading to ill prepared and unthinking visitors engaging in high risk activities – which in turn has led to injuries and deaths, and a big burden on fire and volunteer rescue groups. The National Forest service now plans to ban swimming at the location.

Rent: Every year the media falls for this

Rent: Every year the media falls for this

Every year, an activist/lobbying group issues a report saying people earning minimum wage cannot afford to rent an apartment anywhere in the country. They play a sleight-of-hand trick by obfuscating (and not revealing) that they are saying such individuals cannot rent an apartment priced at the 40th percentile. Stated another way, this report finds – every year – that people earning minimum wage can not rent apartments priced in the top 60 percent of the market – yet obviously, lower earners likely rent at the bottom of the market, not the top. Every year, the media morons run the same story, never understanding what this report says.