Oregon: It’s Too Wet to be a Dust Bowl, Exactly.

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NOBODY WORKS ANYMORE (REALLY): Oregon’s unemployment rate hit 12.1 percent last month, the highest since the Employment Department started publishing rates in 1947.
SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE: City Commissioner Randy Leonard compromised with University of Oregon officials to change Old Town’s “Made in Oregon” sign to read simply “Oregon.”
THE TOWERING INFERNO: Even Tom Moyer can’t get a line of credit. The Oregonian reported the powerful developer halted construction on his 32-story Park Avenue West high-rise, sending home 350 workers with the downtown project just 15 percent finished.
15 MINUTES OF FLAME: A Tillamook logger was sentenced to 60 days in jail after confessing to a prank gone awry: setting a co-worker on fire during a lunch break.
INFURIATINGLY PERCEPTIVE QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I love Portland; it seems very familiar to me. Like Brooklyn without black people.” —New York magazine columnist Kurt Andersen, mocking our city’s homogeneity on OPB’s Live Wire!

04.15.2009 at 11:27 Reply

"Like Brooklyn without black people." soon to replace "The City that Works" on city vehicles?

04.16.2009 at 02:23 Reply

im Martin

I used to like to visit Portland but that was 32 years ago before it filled up with drug addicts, bums, leftwing radicals and anti-capitalists politicians. Now its kind of like the abandoned state of New York in the Kurt Russel movie, "Escape From New York", what a tragic waste of a once vibrant and beautiful area.

04.16.2009 at 12:17 Reply

Aaron Mesh

And don't even get me started on what fun could be had here during the "54-40 or Fight" days. It's all been downhill since the Yanks moved in!

04.27.2009 at 07:31 Reply

Natalie Fertig

If you people dont like portland, why the crap are you reading WW?

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Oregon: It’s Too Wet to be a Dust Bowl, Exactly.