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WINNERS
1. Don't be surprised if you see developer Jim
Winkler wearing Adidas sneakers and Nike shorts. Winkler
orchestrated the move of Adidas America's headquarters from
Beaverton to the vacant former Bess Kaiser Hospital in North
Portland. Last week, Nike broke ground on a new Northeast
Portland factory outlet store at a vacant lot at Northeast
Knott Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. You guessed
it: Winkler helped put that deal together too.
2. Old economic development pros don't retire, they
go through City Hall's revolving door and come out richer.
Ask Larry Dully. Last year the Dully-lama stepped
down from a high post at the Portland Development Commission
to hang out his own shingle. As of last week, the city had
paid Dully $41,938 in consulting fees for his part-time
work putting together a Civic Stadium deal with Marshall
Glickman.
3. NPR profiled Portland band
3 Leg Torso on All Things Considered on July 1. The
day after the segment aired, the group's album went from
nowhere to No. 12 on the Amazon.com best-seller list.
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LOSERS
1. Portland Police Chief Charles Moose is up to
his old angry-man routine. Last week, after helping present
a snapshot of the city's drug problem, he blew up at a reporter
who asked a question about Capt. C.W. Jensen.
2. Imagine this: You're a rape survivor. You summon
the courage to testify in front of the Legislature against
a parental-notification abortion bill. One such young woman
did and then was berated by Sen. Marylin Shannon
for having an abortion. The senator says she knows someone
whose daughter was conceived through rape and grew up to
be a beautiful airline stewardess.
3. Talk about hypocrisy: The Oregonian
editorial board hammered Diane Linn, a Multnomah County
commissioner, for spending taxpayer money to send out a
self-promoting newsletter. But the watchdogs at The Oregonian
said nothing about Mayor Vera Katz's equally self-promoting,
full-page, taxpayer-funded Y2K ad in its Sunday paper that
said, in essence, "Don't worry, be happy."
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