Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy dropped $485,000 on Oregon electric vehicle (EV) projects and proliferation. Labeled “Energize Oregon”, the recently funded plan has three main objectives: integrating the plethora of in-state EV efforts, develop an EV plan to explain these projects and help boost U.S.’ goal to put 1 million EVs on the […]
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Stop Wasting Dollars and Check Out Our FREE Guide to Musicfest!
Monopoly Man’s favorite MFNW bands are Neurosis and Big Freedia. Having a fun and gratuitously expensive MusicfestNW, Richy McRicherson? Enjoying champagne and caviar while seeing all your favorite bands, Scrooge McWalletfull? Chances are, you’re as broke as the rest of us, which is why we put together—at great expense, ironically—the first and only FREE Guide […]
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HUMP! Submission Deadline October 7!
Last year—or maybe it was the year before last—one of the winning HUMP! entries was shot on an iPhone the day before the deadline. So four weeks is plenty of time for you to shoot a HUMP! video and make your dreams of being a porn star for a weekend—not the rest of your life—come […]
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A Rare Opportunity to Watch the Unfettered Market in Action
In case you haven’t heard: The United States Postal Service could shut down this winter. Now for those of you who drag out the usual comments about the USPS being outdated and long past its usefulness, I have a favor to ask of you. If the USPS does shut down, and if major services do […]
Posted inAstronomy
Planet Bling
Swineburn University of Technology in Melbourne In a week where astronomy news includes the discovery of a new type of rock on the surface of Mars and reported plans for a Domino’s on the moon, it’s possible that the most important story has fallen by the wayside: As Reuters reports, a new planet has been […]
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T-Mobile CEO to Employees: Don’t Worry, We’ll Shove This Thing Through Somehow
This Is My Next has text of T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm’s internal e-mail to his employees about the news that the Justice Department is blocking the AT&T merger: DT and AT&T believe the DOJ has failed to acknowledge the significant consumer benefits of this deal. DT remains convinced that bringing together these two world-class businesses […]
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Portland Ranks Above US in Wage Averages
Despite the recent state unemployment ratings, Portland’s still making bank. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, those who actually are employed in the city are making 6 percent more money than the national average. While most Americans are making an average of $21.35 an hour, we are raking in $22.58 an hour. Health […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Taking a Stand for Veggies
Twinkies may be on the chopping block this next election, if OSPIRG has its way. This morning, Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group members petitioned to cut as much as $30 billion from federal government subsidies that lower prices on unhealthy food. Along with general national health, OSPIRG hopes to target childhood obesity, which has […]
Posted inPolitics
Fucking Go, Already
Details, by way of Wonkette, profiles the young dotcom billionaires who want to build libertarian nation-states in international waters: It goes like this: Friedman wants to establish new sovereign nations built on oil-rig-type platforms anchored in international waters—free from the regulation, laws, and moral suasion of any landlocked country. They’d be small city-states at first, […]
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President Obama Says We’re Still AAA, You Guys
Today’s pep talk from the White House: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is repeatedly hitting the president on the S&P ratings, and David Axelrod is calling Romney “pathetic.”
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Debt Ceiling Goes Up…
…stocks go down. SFGate: U.S. stocks fell, driving the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its longest slump since October 2008, after an unexpected drop in consumer spending increased concern that growth in the world’s largest economy is faltering…Stock indexes extended losses even after the Senate passed legislation on raising the debt limit. Wonkette has […]