Today at city hall, I found a stack of these on the front desk in Commissioner Sam Adams’ office: It’s a temporary tattoo. Advertising the city’s one-stop phone number. Um… why? And who would slap this on their body? Note that mine’s on my fridge. And what happens when I need some city info, but […]
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Cheney is a Goon, and Letterman is Awesome.
After a fairly awkward interview with the less-charming-than-hoped-for Zooey Deschanel last night, Letterman welcomed former White House PR guy Scott McClellan onto the show. LETTERMAN: My feeling about Cheney and also Bush, but especially Cheney, is he just couldn’t care less about Americans. And that the same is true of George Bush. And all they […]
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MTV Cribs With New Commissioner Nick Fish…
Amy’s out of town this week, so it took me precisely 28 hours to decide to muscle in on her city-hall patch and get down there. Actually, I sort of had to go down there, because for all my big talk about “offending your sources,” it was sort of necessary to smoke the peace pipe […]
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Homeless Face Same Shit in Seattle
A fascinating entry on the Stranger’s excellent blog this afternoon by reporter Erica C.Barnett, about homeless sweeps being done in Seattle. Barnett writes: The controversy over the sweeps, which the Times story breezes past in five short sentences consisting of an obligatory quote from a single homeless advocate, isn’t just about the fact that there […]
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Hitler was a Burner
Oddly, Burning Man (tickets on sale now!) has already come up twice today, and I haven’t even left the house! The first time was this I, Anonymous decrying the hypocrisy of Burning Man’s carbon footprint and the so-called liberal hippie mentality of the typical burner. And now, it gets worse:
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Columbia River Crossing at Metro
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t attend Metro council hearings very often. But I highly doubt the regional body draws an overflow crowd, uh, ever. There about 60 people to testify on a trio of resolutions that will declare where Metro stands on this project. Metro president David Bragdon just told […]
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Swing ‘Em Home
“Playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” says George Bush. I DISAGREE. Fortunately a bunch of surly Americans are with me, and have formed the group Swing ‘Em Home, with the sole focus of playing golf as often as it takes to…well…”The bottom line is, we’re not going to stop playing golf […]
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Nick Fish’s Door—and S’Mores with Randy Leonard!
Check out this picture, which Matt Davis snapped at city hall today: Outside of that office, which used to say “Erik Sten,” were boxes of discarded office supplies and old books. Sad. Nick Fish’s first day is Friday, June 13—he’ll take the oath of office at Rosa Parks Elementary School in North Portland at 10 […]
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Sit-Lie Protesters Return to Council Chambers
“I’m less likely to get sick outside, I’m less likely to get scabies outside,” says Wesley Flowers, one of five people testifying about the sit-lie ordinance at this morning’s city council meeting. He described the conditions at the Salvation Army’s Harbor Lights 90-bed shelter, which the city opened in response to last month’s protest outside […]
