Two young men at Southern Oregon University got a pretty sympathetic piece in the Mail Tribune today for scribbling anti-gay graffiti on the walls of a gender-neutral dorm. They totally don’t hate gay people, though, they were just, uh, bored (?) “We already had markers in our hands and we started to draw stuff on […]
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Good Morning, News!
We think it’s working? The oil spill is still stopped. But it could pick up again (that’s what Rachel Maddow thinks). Maybe not, though! Guys? The house voted to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: so did the Senate peoples… the reversal needs to pass the joint chiefs now, and a bunch of other folks. 40 […]
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David Douglas Schools Sing and Play and Are Overcrowded
Photo by David F. Ashton, East Portland News David Douglas High is the largest high school in the state. There are over 3,000 students at the school, which has grown and grown as Portland builds more of its affordable housing in East Portland. The city annexed East Portland 20 years ago. Since 1995, the percentage […]
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A Shopping Guide for Jail Managers: My Trip to the Jail Conference
I Iove me a good conference. And the American Jail Association‘s 29th Annual Training Conference and Jail Expo (going on now at the convention center) has the fixings of a good one. Conference attendees are from 44 states, the District of Columbia, several tribal nations and Singapore and Bermuda. There’s a vague yet inspiring theme […]
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Good Morning, News!
Look out, fat cats: the Senate passed a wide-reaching bill to oversee Wall Street. A Chinese professor got arrested for swinging, something that is apparently a pretty big thing over there. Oh Jesus. Everything is going so, so wrong in the Gulf. Not even the cleanup is right, at all. Heil? For some reason, people […]
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Beware the Sea Squirt
A new invader has come to our shores! Beware, my fellow Oregonians, the deadly Sea Squirt! Invader from Japan The Sea Squirt, or Didemnum vexillum, is an invasive species, a “colonial tunicate” that smothers shellfish beds and coats boats and water structures. It coats them like a jelly, and according to Fox News looks like […]
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Bob Stacey gets up and speaks
Stacey spoke at no great length, though he did get to stab a bit about the CRC: “This has been a campaign about choosing the right future for our region… a future in which we protect our communities, and our tax dollars, from over-planned, over-built transportation projects that don’t solve problems and in fact make […]
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Bob Stacey update: There is a lot of alcohol here
I asked Metro President candidate Bob Stacey how he was feeling, and a lady carrying a glass of wine walked up to him and blurted that she could “take a Hughes-Stacey runoff.” “I can do this, look at that!” She gestured to the Multnomah County results on one of the two projectors in the room. […]
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Bob Stacey @ Holocene!!
Bob Stacey is the Mercury’s endorsed candidate for Metro President. His party is at Holocene, again, and I’m watching the candidate with the strong CRC stance party it up at the club with a group of… old folks and hipsters. Things are hot at Stacey central. There’s a hipster bartender wearing a Bob Stacey sticker […]
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“What’s Sodomy, Daddy?”
The back cover of this year’s Portland Police “Safe Summer” booklet, distributed to all public school students, included a fun conversation starter: graphic descriptions of sexual crimes. The page, entitled “Measure 11: An Oregon Law!” is list of crimes that could cause a 15-year-old to be tried as an adult, including… Sexual Abuse 1: You […]
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Donations for the Big Race
Today I accomplished my first real intern task, compiling campaign contributions for the major races for the election. I even used Excel! Here you go, buddies: Democratic GovernorKitzhaber out-raised Bradbury by $912,000, impressive because Bradbury raised only $515,000. Republican GovernorBoth of the big guys raised over a million, but Dudley raised $1.67 million compared to […]
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“East Portland cannot be a 20-minute neighborhood. It is effectively illegal.”
I went to the Portland Plan Workshop for East Portland Saturday morning to hear what neighbors had to say about their future. Sarah Mirk wrote a couple weeks ago about the state of East Portland, which has a lack of infrastructure dating back through years of underfunding. The meeting started with some grounding: 45 people […]