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Trying to wrest the Cover Oregon health care exchange from the bog of incompetence where it’s mired could cost $45 million and two more years, a recent report found. Way cheaper for Oregonians? Just using the federal site. Or piggybacking off another state’s efforts. Anything, really. Those commercials were so twee, though! The Cover Oregon […]

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NEVERMIND. It looked like law enforcement was going to take seriously (very seriously) a motorist’s apparently intentional swipe at a cyclist on Friday. KATU says she won’t be charged. Are you rich? Then you could help the city of Bothell, Wash., get its very own bastion of uninspired food, mediocre beer, and coolish architecture: A […]

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Oregonians apparently hate condoms. Multnomah County has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past seven years. Enjoy your breakfast. So, another through-line links the two Fort Hood shootings—besides the location and growing concerns about whether veterans enduring mental health crises have access to adequate treatment. It’s a massive gun emporium accurately named […]

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An Iraq War vet at Texas’ Fort Hoodโ€”scene of another mass shooting five years agoโ€”worked his way from building to building with a loaded gun, shooting three people to death and injuring 16 more before killing himself \after he was confronted by a military police officer. It all happened in about 15 minutes. Army Specialist […]

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Good day, Blogtown! Save yourself nine years of TV watching! Read this spoiler-filled article about a somewhat popular gimmick-driven sitcom’s final episode! Speaking of nausea, let’s revisit yesterday’s news about the CIA and torture, and how torture didn’t help American troops capture Osama bin Laden. The 6,300-page Senate report with that finding also says the […]

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