LEONARD AND MYERS AT IT AGAIN!!! Because last time the City Commissioner and the Old Town cop worked together on a program without a written basis, targeting people for unclear reasons, the ACLU challenged it in court. Now the pair are under scrutiny for targeting downtown businesses because…er…well, apparently, because Jeff Myers and Randy Leonard don’t like those businesses. But they’re going to have a city council resolution on the matter, soon, to make it all official. After five years of doing it with no scrutiny, at all…fortunately the O‘s Metro editor appears to have woken up since the recent article in Newsweek accusing the paper of being a “go-along, get-along” kind of establishment.
BOULEVARD OR CUL-DE-SAC!!! The Oregonian questions the city’s renewed effort to rename a city street after the labor leader. “Go-along, get-along,” no longer!
DE$TINATION RE$ORT$!!! Carla Axtman at Blue Oregon has been tracking campaign donations by those who would build pricey destination resorts at the Metolius. It turns out, the developers are trying to buy off the state legislators who can give the go-ahead to get the resorts built. Whodathunkit. Let us know when you get the threatening letters, Carla! Axtman also accuses the Bend Bulletin of essentially being in bed with the would-be developers. Fighting talk!
BRISTOL PALIN!!! Says abstinence isn’t realistic!!!
CHENEY FURIOUS OVER NO BUSH PARDON FOR SCOOTER!!! Perhaps he’ll take him “duck hunting.”
THE TERMINATOR!!! Arnold lays off 10,000 California employees.
DRUNK!!! The Japanese finance minister quits after being clearly shitfaced at a G7 press conference yesterday. Perhaps it’s because his economy shrank 13% last year…or perhaps, like most people in finance, he needs to drink to fill the meaningless void of his professional life. No shame in it.
BEHEADING!!! The founder of a Buffalo TV channel portraying Muslims in a positive light has a public relations problem: He’s alleged to have beheaded his wife.
13-YEAR-OLD DAD CASHES IN!!! Poor kid looks about eight years old. But he has a PR consultant!
PHELPS BEATS POT CHARGES!!! Time for a celebratory doobie!
Good day.
Is Randy going to claim he has never heard of this list too? Maybe dodge a couple subpoenas?
Seriously though Randy and Myers, you are not cowboys, you are a government. Start acting like it. Get some clear rules, enforce them equally and people will respect your work. Single out people you don’t like, based on dubious statistics and enforce them on an ad hoc basis and people will think you are a bunch of thugs. The choice is clear.
I have to say good job to Leonard on this. We all want a flexible, adaptable and effective government, not a bunch of lifeless rule-following robot bureaucrats.
I think some people are attracted to the idea of a perfectly black and white reductionist world with absolute rules. I have never seen the real world work that way. Maybe it works that way on paper, or in the blog world…
Matt,
You missed the memo. The problems in Old Town are solved. Local slumlord / thug Mike Narver is a new man, according to Anne Saker’s article in last week’s O.
See At the Stewart, residents find a safe home port – http://tinyurl.com/d7naov
But from 2003 – 2008, Narver’s buildings were the problem.
Westwind Hotel – 317 police calls
Stewart Hotel – 335 police calls
Home Hotel – 72 police calls
Now though, everything’s fine. You can go back to work.
Hummm, Leonard is supporting the secret police, and yet there is no RecallRandyLeonard.com but Adams slept with a porn star, and people are demanding his head on a platter…
Is our society fucked up or what?