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This report is a little frustration specifically because it lacks some of the most specific stuff: Statistics. Yet the case study details in it are more than compelling.
This is a just-out report called (in over-long title) “A Survey of Human Trafficking in the Spokane Region: Conducted by the [...]
What a weekend to go to the coast. You'll be pleased to hear I played two golf courses, one called Quail Valley, and one called Alderbrook, and ate a whopping great crab at Nehalem. My golf game is improving immeasurably, actually. Meanwhile all hell breaks loose with the homeless protest [...]
Just wondering, but is the situation in Myanmar an example of when regime change, if ever acceptable, might be?
A UN-backed force, for instance, taking over the country temporarily to help those in crisis after the recent disaster there, when the local government is so callous?
Just curious about the [...]
I, The Rev. Charles S. Currie, Jr., do herby solemnly swear not to purchase any additional books until the ones currently on my desk have been completed in full.
Oregon bookstores may suffer from this decision but all I can do is ask that people stop writing books until I [...]
This just in: The protesters outside of city hall have asked Mayor Tom Potter for another meeting, to have "a real dialogue about the issues of homelessness and affordable housing." The letter, sent today and accompanied by two pages of signatures from protesters (those are after the cut), requests a [...]
This weekend, we see that Jackie Dingfelder, whose vacated seat Boston is seeking, has [...]
OH Barry!
Here's your TOMATOE!
The United States of America has 50 States!
And there are folks who made fun of VP Dan Quayle for spelling tomato WITH AN e.
C'EST LA VIE
OH Barry!
Here's your TOMATOE!
Harvard educated and he wants to be President of the United States of America but the damned fool doesn't even know how many states there are......
C'EST LA VIE
[...]According to The Little Missus, 
that's universal health insurance. Speaking at a "roundtable discussion" last week at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, she noted that she has a plan that will ensure that all of the estimated 600,000 uninsured Oregonians will be covered. She [...]
A "Gas Tax Holiday" (GTH) is nothing more than a political stunt -- a gimmick!
Even a young, wet behind the ears, Op-ED writer for the Hillsboro Argus has already made known, that to have a GTH gives cause for another Special Session in Oregon.
It's not only gimmick [...]
After the fireman drew media attention to it, the Portland mayor's wife appears to have yanked content in favor of a place-keeping blank page. Presumably, this means that after the attention that Portland city commish Randy Leonard attracted dies down, she'll resume blogging. As the attention span of local media [...]
For the last word on the non-issue of Jeremiah Wright, I defer yet again to the wisdom of Bill Moyers:
"Many of you have asked for some rational explanation for Wright’s transition from reasonable conversation to shocking anger at the National Press Club. ...
"But where I grew up in the south, before [...]
Former President Clinton will give a speech at the UO EMU Ballroom tomorrow night at 8:30. Be sure to thank him for helping torpedo his wife’s campaign and his party’s chances in the general election! Good work, big fella. Just remember to stay away from those girls at the soft serve in [...]
So I'm walking with my boy in his stroller about an hour ago in South Waterfront. (I know how you feel about the place, but they do seem to be trying to do a good job creating a dense new neighborhood from scratch. But...) So I get to [...]
John McCain will be campaigning in Portland tomorrow, and Jeff Mapes at the Oregonian examines the money behind McCain's pricey fundraising reception tomorrow:
When Republican Sen. John McCain is in Portland campaigning Monday, he'll hold quite a complex fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel out at the airport. If you're willing [...]
In a recent post she accused some on the Portland City Council of "character assassination" regarding her husband and "Do-nothing Portland [...]
This week Oregon's total of casualties in Bush's Iraq War stands at 485. [...]
Bill Clinton arrived in Baker City at about noon Sunday May 11, 2008. He looked fit and energetic. Baker County Democrats Chair Marilyn Dudeck, Vice-chair Chuck Butcher, and long time Democratic wheel and enthusiastic Clinton supporter Peggi Timm had a meet and greet with the [...]
Seems like out here on the very edge of the political map in all four dimensions, we usually have to make do with infrequent polls from SurveyUSA which gives us a pretty fuzzy view at best. Once in a while Rasmussen glances our way, and they have a new one [...]
A group called the Portland Coalition Against Poverty is "calling out for solidarity" with the protesters in front of city hall, urging "the non-homeless" to camp out at city hall, especially as Tuesday--and a potential police sweep--approaches.
There's a meeting tonight at 5, at Terry Shrunk Plaza (between 3rd and [...]
The Portland City Council's Agenda for this coming Wednesday begins with four speakers testifying on the protest of homeless people outside City Hall, in Citizen Communications (the first slot is taken by someone speaking about Scientology). Mercury Blogtown is covering events in the demonstration/camping/shelter issue with commendable detail [...]
After conservative victories in Italy and England, are the French finally finding their [...]
Never known as the brightest bulb in the pack, Oregonian associate editor and columnist David Reinhard pronounced Jeff Merkley the winner of the Democratic Primary in today's newspaper.
At issue is that most coveted of awards - "The Wooden Slime Bucket Award" - given by the Wooden Slime Bucket himself, [...]
