http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/hey-landlord-thats-illegal/Content?oid=4747281 Comments On: Hey, Landlord, That's Illegal! by Sarah Mirk en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by sleepyFelix]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:34:09 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by BreAnna]]> Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:39:36 -0700 Portland Mercury These days it seems that the "offensive" words aren't paying for abortions, but rather trying to influence a much less costly procedure, AIDS testing.
Similarities between milk chocolate covered aphrodesiacs,coffee-boiled oysters, and the Imposters that reference themselves as Doctors,some say "CHEMISTS",ventriliquists...and so on looking for "FIXES" pretending to be FOXES and most definitely old and aging Alice Cooper look-alikes need not apply.And its all good because they don't read,have any "real" interests,despise Hollywood filmmaking and their filmmakers plus have Kinky telephone messages that are sometimes accompanied with a photograph....I kinda want to laugh.
Posted by danton]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:03:25 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by DamosA]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:38:12 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by disastronaut]]> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:43:04 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Me]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:37:45 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by altogetherPDX]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:16:02 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by sojourner58]]> Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:03:36 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by phizzi]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:10:35 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by DamosA]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:24:19 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Reymont]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:18:22 -0700 Portland Mercury http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p…)

But Reymont's right—veganism is not a "protected class," so you can discriminate against them in housing all you like. Along with people with Bob Marley posters, people with annoying dogs, and people who never do the goddamn dishes.
Posted by s.mirk]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:16:54 -0700 Portland Mercury
"Vegan Only," on the other hand....diet is not one of the protected classes (like gender, source of income, military service, etc.) so that might actually be legal. Not all discrimination is illegal - totally fine to discriminate against people who can't afford to pay the rent, for example. I don't think non-vegans have any formal legal protection, there. Weird.
Posted by Reymont]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:32:35 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Snagglepuss]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:34:26 -0700 Portland Mercury http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/th…) answers some of my questions about BOLI's standards. Cool.
Posted by jamdox]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:15:12 -0700 Portland Mercury
I'd also be interested to know if they plan to do similar testing in Beaverton, to where, being a klooge, I moved. While in Portland proper things seemed pretty clean with the one company I rented from, here in the Beav there's a definite tendency for hispanic and black renters to cluster down on 5th Ave and Center Street, which seems more than coincidental, and some of the property managers I've met seem... off. Moreso than most, I should say.
Posted by jamdox]]> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:24:14 -0700 Portland Mercury