Read 'em and weep.

[May 21st, 2003] WINNERS

1) First Amendment supporters held their noses and smiled after a federal judge ruled that even gay- and women-bashing evangelists such as Edward Gathright can't be ejected from public property without probable cause that they've broken a law.

LOSERS

1) Rose Festival purists recoiled at the cancellation of the 20-year-old Host-a-Sailor program that allowed residents to entertain sailors. Due to heightened "threat conditions," the U.S. Navy is more concerned with tightening security than loosening up the fleet.

2) What's next, private beaches? The low price of scrap glass has provided bottle-bill foes (including beer distributors) with the ammunition to mount a serious--but as yet unsuccessful--attack on one of the state's landmark laws .

3) K-12 education , which gets the biggest chunk of state tax dollars, was the largest loser last week when state officials announced a nearly $650 million reduction in forecast revenue, but most state programs will suffer from the drop in tax receipts.

4) Maybe the Klingons took it. Portland again earned unwanted national attention when The New York Times chronicled the city's inability to locate a 100-year-old time capsule. Buried under a Lewis and Clark monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, the capsule is scheduled to be opened at a May 28 ceremony--if anyone can find it.