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MaxRedline: Portland City Council Votes To Save Taxpayer Money

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:20:44 -0500

Voting unanimously to renew their contract with Columbia River Correctional Institute, the Council has agreed to continue to use prison inmate labor to clear brush, clean up vagrant camps, and perform other tasks in city parks. The total cost works out to about $15 per hour per supervised worker, although [...]

Born Again Redneck: Pat is in the hospital

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:43:00 -0500

He is being admitted this morning. That's all I can tell you right now, he asked me to let you all know.

- Chas [...]

Oregon Biz Report: Quick Facts: Black Friday, Cyber Sales, Retail Trends

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:00:38 -0500

Black Friday & Cyber Monday: Some Quick Facts

• Black Friday spending rose 0.5%, ($54 million), to $10.7 billion, this year from last year.

• Online sales up 17% (Thurs. to Sun.) over the same period last year.

• Cyber Monday up 11%, more than they did a year [...]

Oregon Women Report: Seven terrible Twilight dating lessons for girls

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:00:25 -0500

By Evergreen,

Wired Magazine has written an amazingly insightful and funny take on the unintended Twilight messages to teen girls. The article is called the “Top 20 unfortunate Lessons Girls learn from Twilight“ by John Scott Lewinski. Below I highlight seven of the 20 to give [...]

BTA Blog: Michelle Poyourow and Roger Geller debate bike funding on KBOO

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:22:57 -0500

On Wednesday of this week BTA Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow and City of Portland Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller were interviewed on the monthly KBOO Bike Show.

Bike show hosts Tori Bortman and Sara Stout asked the pair for their perspectives on the draft Portland [...]

MaxRedline: What News?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:56:06 -0500

Passing through the family room a few moments ago, MSNBC was on the tv (though the sound was off). As talking heads spoke earnestly, a slideshow played behind them, showing cracked, parched earth, smokestacks, the obligatory melting iceberg, and other dire images. Nothing more than propaganda. And they wonder why [...]

MaxRedline: Why Do Roaches Scurry When The Light Flicks On?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:38:39 -0500

Most American media are still not covering the WarmMonger issue, but that's only to be expected, these days. More and more interesting stuff is emerging.

Christopher Horner, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a pending lawsuit against NASA for denying freedom of information requests. NASA, as it happens, gets [...]

Ikeonic: Student to Obama: Stimulate economy with prostitution, gambling and drugs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:32:00 -0500

Dude, every college kid is jealous that they didn't ask Obama this question. This may eclipse "Boxers or briefs?" as the funniest question ever posed to a President.

Yes, more VICE is the answer to all our problems! Allah has some humorous commentary on' [...]

Oregon Catalyst: Death Tax vote ushers more taxes. Oregon vote score.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:02:38 -0500

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On Thursday the House voted to permanently extend the death tax at is 45% rate. Oddly, the estate tax would have dissapeared in 2010 without Congressional approval and then wildy reversed itself back to pre-Bush high rates in 2011. [...]

Silicon Florist: Startup Weekend Corvallis will start up tonight. Will you be starting a startup there?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:58:00 -0500

It’s been a while. A while since we’ve had a Startup Weekend in our neck of the woods or Silicon Forest or whatever. The last time we had the chance to participate in this kind of “build a startup in a weekend” experience was [...]