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By NW Notes,Commentary By Ron Beasley
As we have all noticed the pro life crowd is only pro life before you are born or when you are brain dead. Well David Kurtz watched a Fox News host Alisyn Camerota do a gotcha on a pro life hypocrite.
The host was Alisyn Camerota, and [...]
I did not believe in Santa when I was a little girl. For some inexplicable reason, my parents told my brothers and me that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. We did not hang our stockings by the chimney with care. We did not [...]
"Hey Carl! I read this story in the paper/heard this thing on the radio/saw this bit on TV about Portland and bikes." I hear this from friends scattered all over the country quite frequently. I'm sure that this morning's National Public Radio story about Portland's Cargo Bike craze will' [...]
by Jay McDonough
It seems like, at this point, the best case public option health care scenario to be passed by Congress would allow states to opt out and without the advantage of being able to negotiate for lower cost Medicare payments to providers.
So, it begs the question; can Congress pass [...]
...is not going to come from Loaded Orygun. That's a job that was mostly being done while I was making my way back from the Garden Saturday night, stewing and just feeling a little sick. But for a story that carries national interest in the sports world, you might come [...]
By Ron Beasley
I just received the following email from OpenLeft:
When Ben Bernanke was first nominated to chair the Federal Reserve Bank in 2005 by George W. Bush, he declared that there was no housing bubble. Three years later, during an economic crisis caused by the housing bubble he did not foresee, Bernanke [...]
Oh, yeah. Bring it on, health care reform.
This 61 year old is absolutely ready to give up his over-priced Regence Blue Cross of Oregon policy and jump to Medicare early, along with 30 million other Americans aged 55-64.
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Last week, US Green Building Council president Rick Fedrizzi was at the new Mercy Corps headquarters to personally award the building its Platinum certification, the highest possible in the Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system for green buildings.
"Fabulous. Fabulous." [...]
Last week, US Green Building Council president Rick Fedrizzi was at the new Mercy Corps headquarters to personally award the building its Platinum certification, the highest possible in the Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system for green buildings.
"Fabulous. Fabulous." [...]
Good ol' Bill Sizemore. Despite his indictment on state tax evasion charges (arraignment today), he's not keeping his mouth shut.
Saturday night, he appeared on KGW's "Straight Talk" show. And showed us all once again how he's been able to survive all these years by sweet-talking folks out of' [...]
A few Fridays ago, I had the chance to check out the kickoff of Rex Burkholder's campaign for Metro president. More than 200 folks crowded the ballroom of the Leftbank Project on Broadway, the site of the old jazz club The Dude Ranch from years ago. [...]
The NYT's has found a new darling from which to lens the art world, William
Powhida. This month's article looks at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair.
On Artnet Donald
Kuspit looks at the Bauhaus.
In the Gaurdian Adrian
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By Steve Hynd
Not Denmark, nor Switzerland in the Hindu Kush - more like Kosovo, Mosul or Columbia.
Afghanistan could look like Iraq, the Balkans or Central America if NATO succeeds in its mission there, the alliance's top commander said on Monday.
"It will be a world in which there is a central'" [...]
There is a new Rassmussen poll out just this morning that shows Republican party candidates (on a generic ballot) losing to "Tea Party" candidates. In the 3-way generic ballot question:
Democrat -...
By Steve Hynd
On June 10, 2006 three detainees at Gitmo's Camp Delta were found hanged in their cells. The government's own autopies showed they'd been hanging there for at least two hours, in cells under suposedly constant surveilance by video cameras and guards.
Governer Kulongoski decides to invite several Portland-area police departments to a friendly competition. The Beaverton Police Department, the Gresham Police Department, and the Portland Police Department all take part.
A jackrabbit is marked with blue dye, then released into Forest Park. Each of the Police Departments [...]
By John Ballard
Lest we get warm and fuzzy about America's success in Iraq, a look at Iraq Today is a head-snapping corrective. Mounting casualties and security incidents in the Afghanistan Adventure are also being tracked here. I keep a link to the site but find it depressing so I [...]
AFRC News,
American Forest Research Council
In a brief filed on October 30, attorneys representing defendant-intervenor Silver Creek Timber
Company asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not to pay the exorbitant attorneys fees
demanded by EarthJustice under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) for [...]
By Patrick Emerson
Oregon Economics Blog
I was working at the OSU Portland Center offices yesterday and decided to lunch at the nearby Kenny & Zukes. When my credit card receipt came I encountered something new: a handy-dandy guide to help [...]
By Olivia Rossie, RN, MSN, ACSM
Your Personal Trainer:
Historically, the terms feast and festival were used interchangeably. Feast was defined as a festival—something that gives unusual or abundant pleasure, a time of celebration. Its meaning has evolved to describe an elaborate meal often accompanied by [...]
Apparently, there are iPhone apps that will let you signal other drivers when you're about to leave a space, and apps that will map out parking regulations for you.
I think I'll stick to the transit apps, thank you very much!
Still, these are interesting applications of crowdsourcing...
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December Seventh, 1941
Sixty-six years ago, December 7, 1941, the United States was rocked by the radio announcements that told of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Many historical and remembrance [...]
Join TJ Monday @730 AM on KPOJ's Morning Show with Carl Wolfson and Friends, on your AM dial at 620, or via the web directly here or on your Iphone/3G/ITouch using the IHeartRadio app. That's producer Paul Pimentel on the left, Christine Alexander, Carl Wolfson, and national writer and [...]
Last week I posted an unhappy piece on President Obama's Afghanistan decision. Â It drew a healthy mix of comments, including some amazement that critics like me apparently didn't hear or remember candidate Obama's support for escalating the war there. Â That's not accurate; many of us heard it, didn't like [...]
The I.R.S. would be the muscle behind a national health insurance plan. Such a deal. Note: they'll be the muscle, not the brains.
You're a 32-year-old "single mother" of two, living in Seattle. Working in a chain hair "salon", you make less than $19,000 a year.
And the I.R.S. calls you [...]
p3 turned 5 this week; an astonished nation gasps in awe.
This January, a hidden tax increase will penalize almost every employee and employer in Oregon. Due to the recent high unemployment rate, State payroll taxes, which fund the unemployment insurance system, will 
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