Miranda Runs Anyway

Oregon, let’s get this done!

Chunhuei Chi is working on a plan that in much of the developed world sounds essentially banal, but to many Americans sounds so audacious as to be absurd.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2026/05/20/this-scholar-takes-oregons-universal-health-care-dreams-seriously-should-we/

Seems like a great time to talk seriously about universal health care.

The Providence Health Plan said Wednesday that it would stop offering most of its insurance products by the year’s end, heralding the near-complete dissolution of a longtime stalwart of Oregon’s private health insurance marketplace.

https://www.wweek.com/news/health/2026/05/20/portland-based-providence-health-plan-to-stop-offering-most-insurance-plans-at-end-of-year/

We talk about retirement and immigration as if they're separate policy problems. They're not.

They're both pressure valves — ways our political system avoids confronting what's actually broken about how we organize labor, distribute value, and account for human capacity over a lifetime.

This is the conversation we keep not having.

→ runninganyway.com/writing/retirement-and-immigration-are-standing-in-for-a-broken-labor-system

It costs $3,000 to appear in the Oregon Voters' Pamphlet. I couldn't afford it. Seven people wanted to help me get there. Every single one of them was already stretched. That's not a fundraising failure.

That's the system working exactly as designed. This is Oz Sighting #5.

→ runninganyway.com/writing/oz-sighting-5-the-3000-paragraph-the-scarecrows-logic

I didn't start with a theory about the law. I started with a belief in it. Then I started seeing the cracks. In high school. At MacLaren. In the cannabis industry — standing in a room watching who got to participate in something that had, not long before, been criminal.

This essay is about what happens when the rules don't mean the same thing for everyone.

→ runninganyway.com/writing/oz-sighting-7-what-is-law-actually-the-tin-mans-justice

Where money flows shapes what’s possible.

The Oregon Community Foundation distributes funding across the state to support everything from housing to education to community development.

If we want a regenerative economy, we have to think about capital differently:
Not just how much — but where it goes, and who it serves.

Systems change isn’t just policy. It’s investment.

🔗 https://oregoncf.org
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PFA was life-changing for us and next year Friendly House is going to have more places than ever.

Just got this update from the Rose City Connection from the City of Portland, OR:

Free preschool. Apply now.

Preschool for All has more seats available than ever: more than 7,000 tuition-free seats allocated for the next school year. No income restrictions. Available for every Multnomah County 3 and 4 year old, regardless of income, race, gender, zip code, etc. Applications open until May 14. Learn more and apply at pfa.multco.us

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One more piece from Ravenshout Gallery.

I’ve been thinking about how many things in our lives don’t get shared widely — not because they aren’t meaningful, but because they were never meant to be loud.

This work was like that.

If you have a moment, I’d love for you to take a look — or just pause here for a second and see what you notice.

And if it brings a story to mind about someone who shaped you, I’m always open to receiving those.

https://www.runninganyway.com/ravenshout

More of this please.

Washington County opened the first facility in the country to offer medical, legal, advocacy, and therapeutic childcare services in one location.
https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/the-new-family-peace-center-opens-in-washington-county/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KOIN_6