Why is this slippery actor billed as an economist?
Rogue of the Week
Ben Stein has gotten a lot of traction out of his turn as a droning teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?”).
He’s
since...
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Rogue of the Week
Stephen Vass was driving back to work after lunch through
Beaverton on the morning of Feb. 14 when he turned left off of Southwest
Cedar Hills Boulevard onto Southwest Canyon Road. Like many of us
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A lawmaker mixes health care for Oregonians and protecting his own wallet.
Rogue of the Week
Oregon legislators convene Feb. 1 in Salem for a one-month
session. They’ll deal with education reform, the budget and
fundamentally changing the way the state pays for health care.
On that la
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The cell-phone giant blames others for its own problems with a proposed antenna site in Northeast Portland.
Rogue of the Week
It’s nice that the giant corporations that provide our
cell-phone service say they’re dedicated to giving us the best possible
coverage. T-Mobile, for example. It says it wants to provide the ve
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The website of the state’s biggest paper has run paid content masquerading as news.
Rogue of the Week
Neighborhood Notes is a different kind of online news
source. The website features “hyperlocal” news from around Portland.
What’s really different, however, is that Neighborhood Notes also
ch
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A prosecutor imposes a maximum sentence—laced with threats and profanity.
Rogue of the Week
Here at the Rogue desk, we understand the practice of law
is a stressful profession. But for threatening a fellow lawyer and his
client, Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Jim David lands square in the
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The state troopers’ union is still employing telemarketers who use shakedown tactics.
Rogue of the Week
It’s an old scam: Set up a bogus charity and a boiler-room
call center. Tell people you’re raising money for cops, vets or
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Portland Public Schools’ security chief shuts charter schools out of the safety loop.
Rogue of the Week
On May 10, a gunman shot a clerk at Cigarettes Plus on
North Lombard Street. The clerk survived but the gunman fled, leading
Portland police to lock down
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