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WINNERS
1. Depressingly, the November
ballot will include a measure banning public schools from
encouraging homosexuality or bisexuality, courtesy of Lon
Mabon and the Oregon Citizens Alliance. Presumably
this would put a stop to all those "Homosexuality 101" classes
that have slipped unnoticed into the curriculum.
2. The befuddled, unattached and lovelorn (a.k.a.
singles) and the bars that cater to them were proven
to be a social juggernaut by Census Bureau figures showing
that 35 percent of Portlanders live alone, making Puddletown
almost as trendy as San Francisco (37 percent).
3. Drunken idiots cheered lustily when the
Oregon Supreme Court ruled that a customer who got so plastered
that he fell down the stairs of a Coos Bay tavern could
sue the establishment for serving him.
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LOSERS
1. Portland's working poor and ethnic
minorities will have a harder time fending off lead
paint, heavy metals and PCBs after the Urban League temporarily
pulled the plug on its environmental justice and advocacy
programs.
2. The Beavers got stomped in the engineering field
when the Oregon Graduate Institute agreed to merge with
Oregon Health Sciences University instead of Oregon State
University. OHSU scores an engineering school,
teraflops of computing power, and a wide-gauge pipeline
to high-tech donors. All the beavers get is more dam work
(see Murmurs).
3. Note to Bureau of Land Management: Next
time you want to be funny, don't bother. Last week, after
the federal agency dubbed a creekside timber sale "Goldie
Fawn," the actress for whom it was named wrote a letter
to BLM's Salem office requesting that it not associate Hawn's
name "with such a destructive proposal."
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