Taking stock of the week's most active local issues

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Jill Bakken [SLED]
Bottom-line investors generally avoided getting swept up in Olympics hoopla, but when Portland-born Jill Bakken drove her two-woman bobsled across the finish line in Utah, it set off a rally in hometown pride. Not only did the Bend resident end a U.S. medals drought in bobsledding, she accomplished the feat without getting her boyfriend to assault her opponent.

Smokers Inc. [HACK]
As of midday Tuesday, tobacco addicts were still breathing easy after House Republicans in Salem had succeeded in once again snuffing out Gov. John Kitzhaber's efforts to raise the state tobacco tax rather than raid an education trust fund to balance the state books. Some nicotine investors, however, remained jittery amid rumors that some suburban Senate Republicans were beginning to wheeze at the thought of putting the interests of smokers ahead of students.

Dave Mazza Inc. [PROTSTR]
Shareholders in the Portland Alliance editor dumped their stock last week when his initiative to tighten civilian police oversight failed to garner enough valid signatures. According to the city's statistical sampling, Mazza fell short of the needed 26,095 John Hancocks by less than 1 percent. The slim miss devastated investors--including Gregory Cluster, an unemployed Reed grad who donated more than $25,000 to the campaign.