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WINNERS
1. The folks at Outside In, the haven for
homeless youth, came up big last week. They received a $1
million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
to build a new shelter for street urchins who don't know
where they want to go today.
2. After 29 years of frustration, Oregon State
football fans finally were treated to a winning season.
With a win over Cal last week, the Beavers guaranteed their
faithful followers at least mediocrity and kept alive the
tantalizing prospect (be still my heart!) of a postseason
bowl game.
3. Criminal defense attorneys claimed partial
victory last week when voters rejected three of the seven
victims' rights measures on the fall ballot. (Voters did,
however, approve one of the most hotly contested measures,
limiting the right to bail for those accused of violent
crimes.)
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LOSERS
1. PacifiCorp customers found out who pays for years
of lousy management: Surprise--they do. With the ink barely
dry on Scottish Power's takeover of the lumbering local
utility giant, the gents in kilts asked the Public Utility
Commission for a double-digit rate hike.
2. Portland gamblers lost out on a chance for a
conveniently located fix last week when Gov. John Kitzhaber
trumped tribal leaders' efforts to put an Indian casino
in Cascade Locks.
3. It was bad enough for Commissioner Charlie
Hales last week when the City Club ripped the planning
bureau he's overseen for the last several years. Then, in
an interview with The Oregonian, Hales dismissed
the need for long-range planning, a view that probably won't
sit well with the club's 1,500 well-wired members.
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