Here we go again. Another Oregon ballot measure about taxes is pending in January, and another letter just showed up in our mailbox from a small business owner urging us to reject the tax increases:
This time it's signed by a dairy farmer out in Tillamook. But the [...] 
Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler reports on Twitter that he had a pretty serious skiing accident today: "broken back (2 disks), broken shoulder, slight facial lacerations... Full recovery" [...] 
Less than a week before the new federal rules take effect that require bloggers to disclose free stuff they get to review on their sites, along come a couple of nice bottles of wine from Troon Vineyard down in Grants Pass:
Even though these slipped in under the wire, [...] 
Here's a publication that we stumbled upon yesterday at the grocery store:
It says it's issue no. 7, which means this monthly has been going for a while. Good for them, especially in these tough times.
For those readers who find this blog too cynical, may we suggest that you find [...] 
Mother Nature paid our neighbor's sweet gum tree a visit over lunch hour today:
Armchair sports pundits who have criticized the somewhat spacey play of Blazer forward Travis Outlaw are now going to get to see what the team can do without him. Travis has broken the same bone in his foot that kept Martell Webster off the court all last year, [...] 
Although I am a certified night owl, even I don't get much out of television past 1:30 a.m. But tonight it might pay for me to stay up 'til 3, to catch live college basketball action between my alma mater, the St. Peter's Peacocks, and the Monmouth Hawks. [...] 
The use of utility easements for hiking -- and the liability of adjacent homeowners if somebody gets hurt doing it -- is turning into a true Portland City Hall snafu. It seems that Mayor Creepy's transportation bureau has been goading a nonprofit group to build trails along the' [...] 
