Saturday, March 18, 2023

I get this …

Oregon’s Rural-Urban Divide Sparks Talk of Secession.

Redrawing the map would require much more than fresh cartography. Logistical challenges grow more thorny with each new question: Would people in eastern Oregon be ready to embrace a sales tax? How would Idaho, which bans legal marijuana, manage eastern Oregon’s thriving weed industry? How would the states transition eastern Oregon’s state employees, with some benefits already earned, to a new retirement system with different rules and compensation?

Here in Pennsylvania, the problem is getting Philly — and maybe parts of adjacent counties — to secede. 


 

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