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WINNERS
1. Good news for serious boyfriends: a St.
Helens man will now get visitation rights to his deceased
girlfriend's two sons after a Columbia County judge decided
the man had been an "excellent parent" during the two years
he dated the boys' mother.
2. Surgeons at Legacy Good Samaritan broke
rival Oregon Health Sciences University's 40-year monopoly
on the local kidney market, performing their first transplant
last week.
3. Local tots are safer thanks to Multnomah County
Sheriff Dan Noelle's great gun-lock giveaway. The department
has handed out 5,000 of the locks gratis.
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LOSERS
1. Metro's indecision over how to spend its recent
$60 million budget windfall has spawned some odd ideas.
Councilor David Bragdon's proposal to subject Portlanders
to annual reports and mail-in rebates for garbage fees met
with a hostile reception last week.
2. Oregonian columnist David Reinhard
took a verbal knife in the back Nov. 11 from none other
than fellow wordsmith Steve Duin. In a column blasting the
rhetoric of assisted-suicide foes, Duin chastised his colleague
for "parroting" an e-mail claiming that HMOs profit when
people take their own lives.
3. Boxing fans have seen their sport take it on
the chin nationally in a serious of recent scandals. Maybe
that's why a mere 1,400 souls ventured to the Rose Garden
for what was billed as the sweet science's local renaissance.
That's not much bigger than the crowds who show up to watch
school-board members exchange jabs.
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