If you missed these presentations, you can listen to them here: Helen Kao (23 minutes) Jason Wallis (17 minutes) As Baby Boomers enter their seventies, educators and health-care professionals are tracking the results of programs intended to help older adults maintain health and wellbeing. … Continued
Note: The talk described below is available on the City Club of Corvallis YouTube channel. When Oregon State University professor Bill Ripple and colleagues published a viewpoint article in the journal BioScience last fall — Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A … Continued
OREGON VOTERS will cast their ballots by January 23 in a special referendum on a health-care tax assessment adopted by the State Legislature in 2017. City Club members and area residents will have two opportunities on January 9 to hear presentations and ask … Continued
6:30 PM, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 – TOWN HALL Q&A… This November, voters will decide about continuing to pay increased county taxes for health and safety services and, this town hall session is a chance to talk with County officials about … Continued
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE CORVALLIS ECONOMY often bring up a few key factors: innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. The community ranks among the top cities in the country for patents and Ph.Ds. per capita. And as the home to a global leader in … Continued
A YEAR OF TWISTS, TURNS AND JUST HANGING ON Almost into the year of a dramatic about face in the White House, the national political conversation still generates surprises on a daily basis. Decisions on health care, tax reform, immigration … Continued
The Willamette Valley may have plenty of water in normal times, but imagine the scene after a major earthquake: broken water and sewer mains, hazardous chemical spills, polluted streams, wells out of service. It could take weeks, we’re told, for … Continued
If you cross the Marys River, bike down Jefferson Avenue or drive up Witham Hill, you will notice more than changes in the landscape. Streets, parks, schools, homes and businesses define the many neighborhoods that make up the city. Some … Continued
What We Actually Know, What Our Leaders Are Doing After two emergency homeless shelters announce shutdowns and the League of Women Voters issues a report on the scale of the homelessness problem, the City Club of Corvallis gathers top city, county … Continued
Listen to an audio recording of this meeting on SoundCloud. The ability of the City of Corvallis and Benton County to balance their books and mediate financial tensions will be the focus of the City Club of Corvallis meeting on … Continued
