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Re: “Wyden's Top Staffer Checks Healthcare Tweets”
If the press isn't supposed to "push" members of government to their point of view, then what exactly do we pay you people for?
Wait, I get my news online so I don't pay you. Crap.
Re: “Enter the Voodoo Burger”
I miss Hamburger Marys....
Re: “Why Save OBT? An Impassioned Screed”
I don't think the ballet should receive MORE support than sports, but parity sounds good to me. Major League soccer is getting millions.
In fact, I think Merritt Paulson should pony up the $750k in exchange for free ballet lessons for his soccer players.
It is a proven fact that pro athletes who take ballet increase their flexibility, core strength and agility and decrease their on field injuries. It would be a good investment on his part.
Plus I bet the arts community would officially stop pitching a fit at the whole MLS craziness if Paulson showed a little karmic generosity. Matt! Get on it!
Re: “Why Save OBT? An Impassioned Screed”
The ballet should receives "special treatment" because the ballet is the only arts org in Portland currently on the brink of closure. A broad show of public support for this institution now will build the groundwork for a network of support for other institutions in need of help in the future.
I don't personally go see a lot of live music, but I can tell you that if someone who contributed to the Ballet now, in their time of need, later asked me to contribute $5 to $20 help one of our storied music institutions stay afloat, I sure as hell would. Same applies here.
Engage now in supporting this art form (regardless of your personal preference for it) and you earn the right to request Portland's support for your own pet form of Portland based creative expression. Zoobombers? Open Studios? PIFF? Whatever your passion is, contribute to building a network to save OBT now, and it will be there for you should your institution suddenly find itself in need of support.
Re: “PCS' Public Relations Manager is Manipulating Me.”
I love you Alison Hallett. Yer My Heeero.
P.S. Don't hate the playa. Hate the game.
Re: “The Gossip Have a Heavy Cross To Bear”
I definitely get the stevie nicks vibe, but its kinda workin for me.
Re: “Anti-Tax Protest Packs Pioneer Square”
Boxxy- Good point. Dress to persuade rather than dress to impress. All politics is ultimately about image.
Kyle- Also a good point- history has shown repeatedly that deregulation often leads to profiteering, crisis and collapse and that too much unregulated capitalism may lead to efficient financial evolutions but stomps a bunch of living breathing people's real lives along the way.
I see both points, really- on the one hand, General Motors needs to die. From an economic point of view they are poison. From an environmental point of view they are poison. And they are one of the last great industrial pseudo-monopolies. But HOW we kill them could mean the difference between 40,000 families being able to feed their kids this month or not.
And the government did contribute to the bloated financial instruments and mega-conglomerates that led to this current crisis. But they did it by not regulating stringently enough when they had the chance- both the scale and the products of the financial services sector became like kudzu- impossible to get rid of, entwined in everything, and choking the sunlight from the native trees and business trying to quietly make their way through the world.
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