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Oregon schools, housing, homelessness highlighted in Gov. Kotek budget proposal [Video]

Much of the governor’s proposal represents maintained levels of funding for housing and homelessness, but new investments are earmarked for schools and youth.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek introduced her budget proposal for the 2025-27 biennium in a press conference on Monday, highlighting continued funding for housing development, homelessness initiatives and behavioral health capacity. The largest new investments come in the form of support for schools and other learning programs.

In all, Kotek’s plan costs $39.3 billion — just under the revenue that Oregon is expected to have on hand over the next two years.

“My approach to being your Governor will always be grounded in truth, pragmatism, and a relentless pursuit of equitable outcomes for all Oregonians,” Kotek said in a statement. “The December revenue forecast projects stability for Oregon, and I am pleased to share that my budget does not lay off people or cut services, and instead strategically deepens our commitment to building progress on Oregonians’ …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine