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Southeast Portland Residents Are Meeting With Seattle Attorneys Over Potential Glass Factory Pollution

Lawyers with nationally prominent environmental law firm, Seattle-based Keller Rohrback LLP, are meeting with Southeast Portland residents who fear theyโ€™ve been exposed to harmful heavy metal emissions in their neighborhood. The state Department of Environmental Quality has blamed Bullseye Glass, 3722 SE 21st, for high readings of arsenic and cadmium. Matthew Preusch, a lawyer with […]

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Good Morning, News: DEQ Calls On the DOJ, Militants Leave “Trench of Feces,” and an Anti-Beyonce Protest?!? IMPOSSIBLE!

GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Hugging like a monkey see, monkey do. Right beside a riverboat gambler. Erotic images float through my head. I wanna be your midnight rambler. LET’S GO TO PRESS. The DEQ has passed some of their oversight to the Department of Justice who will help the agency enforce rules about toxins being emitted […]

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The Oregon Department of Justice Is Wading Into Concerns Over Portland Glass Emissions

Considerable relief attended Bullseye Glass’s announcement last Friday that it was suspending the use of various forms of chromium. And while its chromium-free stance may well last, its commitment to eschew the heavy metal lasts only until this Friday, according to a Bullseye spokesman. Even that short promise took more leverage than state environmental regulators […]

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It’s Happening Tonight!

BOOKSโ€”Margaret Malone writes spare, sharp-edged short stories set in Portland, and tonight she’s joined by Arthur Bradford, occasional speaker for Eastmoreland’s trees, and full-time writer of what can only be described as charming weirdo lit. They’re two of the city’s best fiction writers, in one of its best independent bookstores. MEGAN BURBANKBroadway Books, 1714 NE […]

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The Bachelor Recap: Episode 7โ€”All’s Fair in Love and Warsaw, IN

Courtesy of @bachelorABC Wait. There are TWO Bens? Now this is getting confusing. This weekend, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away. No matter what you think about the man, itโ€™s undoubtedly true that things are going to get interesting in American politics. It’s looking like Congressional Republicans are going to do their damnedest to […]

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