For any true Blazer fan, it was a harsh weekend of reality: think your team is the Lakers or the Celtics--or even the Hawks or Nuggets--this year just by fiat of the calendar? The natural outcome of added pounds and maturity on the players, and some vague belief that the [...]
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I was in downtown Portland (on the east side--that becomes important) to hear live music last night, and the people who were in the bar were, for a time, living in totally different worlds, depending on what media they were plugged into at the moment.
If you were watching [...]
I admit I'm watching all of this from the sidelines, but it's fascinating: unbenknownst to me, the right wing trash rag American Spectator features a blog by former Reagan political director Jeffrey Lord. Furthermore, this longtime conservative critic is actually a member of the same religious denomination--the United Church of [...]
I get the feeling he thinks he's capitalizing on a tea party zeitgeist of which he would be a natural leader, and he must seize the moment personal circumstances be damned--but this is really not a good way to announce your candidacy for governor:
Sizemore filed Monday to seek the [...]With an aerial bombardment worthy of Sarah Palin, a suddenly rejuvenated Martell Webster and the rest of the Blazers went Wolf-hunting on a reliably bad Minnesota team that has now provided 30% of Portland's wins this season, blowing them out this time by the greatest margin at 28, 106-78.
It ended [...]
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The bad news: It's leveled off at 11.2%.
The good news: Oregon's unemployment rate in May was 12.2%
The bad news: The national unemployment rate is 10.2%.
The good news: Oregon's state economist says the recession's over.
The bad news: Some [...]
As part of an agreement hashed out at the end [...]
It's not been a good week for those who are trying to build opposition to the tax fairness bills passed in the Leg last year and now referred to January's ballot. In two separate rulings at both the lowest and highest levels of Oregon's court system, teabagging plaintiffs who had [...]
The O carries a story from this afternoon describing a trio of Democratic Senators who are seeking a slowdown on the potential extension of some of the more egregious USA PATRIOT provisions otherwise set to expire. (Betcha didn't know the Act's title was actually in acronym form, didya? It's [...]
Fans, we're nearing the end of the first extended road trip of the season--which has seemed awfully long already, even though only seven of the first dozen have been away games. I think it's just the newness of the season, getting only a couple of home-cooking games at a time [...]
We can all blame Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer for giving Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin and the rest of the lunatic wing of the Republican Party their fodder for the biggest and most absurd summer episode surrounding health care reform: "death panels." Were it not for his totally wrong-headed and foolhardy [...]
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California drew national attention to the risk that states would go broke when it had to' [...]
A small morsel of Friday political amusement, as I continue to recover from an accident involving rain, embedded rail lines on Portland's Central Eastside, and a motor scooter: check out the lead to the latest missive received via email from our friends at the Oregon GOP, as expressed by ORP [...]
(Update: The Corvallis chapter meets Wednesday night, 11/11--see below for details.)
(I still mainly associate with the Portland and Portland Metro-West chapters, but since I moved upstairs last winter, from Portland chapter host to field organizer for OR, WA, AK, and HI, I'm trying to work out how' [...]
I think by now we all know who the "Tea Party" name refers to--the dupes who were organized this year by Dick Armey, Glenn Beck and Fox "News" to protest, well, nearly everything they can think of that is irritating their shorts. And by now we all also know what [...]
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Here, let's start with the NBA clip this time for those who wish to skim in pictures, then we'll come back below the fold with analysis...
{Writing and stuff below, like I said!}
If you'll forgive what sounds like a tangent for a moment, the Joe's Sporting Goods [...]
The Oregon delegation votes:
Yes: Blumenauer, DeFazio, Schrader, and Wu.
No: Walden
(Flip those around, and you've got their votes for the odious Stupak Amendment earlier today.)
' [...]
While callers were getting through to DeFazio's, Wu's, and Blumenauer's offices in DC' [...]
It's hard to get truly excited about the fair-to-middlin' health care reform package now pending final debate and a vote later today, because it really stood just a few cruel Blue Dog votes away from producing an ironically cheaper (and more effective) bill they couldn't support. Kurt Schrader in the [...]
Across Oregon, after the question "Should U of O end up ahead of Boise if they both win out" I'm sure the most popular sports fan worry is "WTF with the Blazers?" It's way early yet, and 2-3 is hardly a disaster--but there are some evil portents and recurrences of [...]
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This time, the OEA and AFT-Oregon are suing both Sizemore and his main sugar daddy Loren Parks for alleged campaign shenanigans:
The unions claim Sizemore and Parks conspired to set up a sham charitable organization [...]
