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• FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS: Barack Hussein Obama will be sworn in as the nation’s first black president on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

• UH, NEVER MIND: Portland Police Officer Jeff Myers says his secret list of frequent downtown lawbreakers—the majority of whom are black—doesn’t amount to racial profiling. The Oregonian editorial board agrees with him.

• NOPE: State economist Tom Potiowsky predicts ongoing job losses in Oregon through the third quarter of 2009 with unemployment perhaps exceeding 10 percent.

• MILES HIGH CLUB: The Trail Blazers threaten any team that thinks about signing underachieving ex-Blazer Darius Miles, which would screw with the Blazers’ salary-cap numbers.