Snow Fooling About The Past Week.

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TV weathermen and women got to regale us "Storm Team" style with all the vagaries among snow, sleet and freezing rain. Conclusions from hours of coverage: Stay inside when it's cold, living east of I-205 sucks in the winter, and once-a-year crummy weather leaves us all looking like idiots when we drive in the snow.

After ignoring enviros for much of his term, Gov. Ted Kulongoski has started tossing them bones. Fresh off recommending Oregon adopt California's strict vehicle-emission standards, the guv busted out a proposal to make the state's coastline an environmental sanctuary. Wonder if he's nervous about ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber, getting cozy with the greenies while Kitz mulls a political comeback.

Tired of the debate over same-sex marriage? Now we've got one over same-sex schools. That's right: The latest proposal to save North Portland's Jefferson High School includes the back-to-the-future notion of setting up one school for girls and another for boys.

LOSERS

The Oregon Public Utility Commission body-slammed the City of Portland and Portland General Electric customers by approving Enron's plan to distribute PGE stock to Enron's creditors. Although state law requires a "net benefit" when regulated utilities change hands, only Enron and PGE management benefit from this deal.

After pleading guilty to burglary and pornography charges in Washington County, panty thief Sung Koo Kim will face at least four more years in prison for stealing thousands of pairs of underwear. That comes on top of a four-year sentence from Yamhill County, and with other prosecutions still to come elsewhere.

Natural-foods proponents rave about the nutritional benefits of milk that doesn't undergo Louis Pasteur's heat zapper. But 17 raw-milk chuggers in Oregon and Washington discovered the risks that come with their quest for health last week after they ingested E. coli-infested milk from Dee Creek Farm in Vancouver.

The Portland Art Museum is suing Ann Beha Architects, which has worked on three museum projects in the past decade. The museum alleges in a $1.5 million lawsuit that there were cost overruns in the new Mark Building. Boston-based Beha denies those charges.

12.20.2005 at 10:00 Reply

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Snow Fooling About The Past Week.and they say there ain't an urban/rural disconnect in Oregon. Rural Oregonians can live with snow and ice, the odd pervert here and there, know that poop in their milk is not good, and hope they can come up with enough kids to keep the local school open, let alone segregate them by sex. What they can't deal with is urban Democrats selling their rural lifestyle and livelihoods to the Greenies for urban votes. Someday someone is going to have to tell the ultra hip pdxers that most of the pure Bull Run water gets peed and pooped in, and sent on to the River, cement and asphalt does not a watershed make, trees are cut to make wood and paper for all the new McMansions, and the best use for a salmon is it being dead after spawning in the creek it spawned in.—gumboot

Snow Fooling About The Past Week.The TV weatherman and women should have been nominated for "losers" instead on the snow coverage. It's bloody embarassing (and the folks in Bend who have some Portland television station via cable said we look like asses when we report snow). For the love of God, snow, like the other four-lettered "s" word, happens.The winners should go to the National Weather Service (www.weather.gov)in Portland and the Oregon Department of Transportation Tripcheck (www.tripcheck.com) for giving us the straight scoop on the weather and traffic reports—Bryan Dorr

12.22.2005 at 10:00 Reply

Snow Fooling About The Past Week."Strom Team" If it looks bad/cold/rainy out and you are staying inside, then all you have on television is news coverage of the weather. Ugh! Why does the media need to remind us every 10 minutes what the weather may or maybe doing? It is silly to have some news reporter standing out in Troutdale telling us again that it is really windy and cold, so be careful. It is a good time to turn off your television.—veryme

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