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News A few months back, we asked for your thoughts on the latest round of bad state budget news in Oregon and got some thoughtful responses. Let's try something similar in the aftermath of this election. In this video below, Gov.-elect John Kitzhaber says he's counting on you to help him. Given that the state faces a $3 billion-plus shortfall heading into the next budget cycle and that the Legislature ...   More

News Elections do matter. Now that last week's elections have given Republicans control of the U.S. House next year. Rep. Greg Walden—the only GOP member of the Oregon congressional delegation—has a lot of juice as head of his party's transition committee. And he's getting a lot of face time on national TV. Last night, Walden was on Fox News' On The Record W/Greta Van Susteren to talk ...   More

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News KGW made an interesting connection over the weekend in the case of the three alleged bank robbers who were busted last week on charges of holding up two Portland branches of U.S. Bank. Two of the three were also apparently Lents-neighborhood bloggers committed to "urban sustainability" at UrbanSurvivalists.com. Now we deliver even more proof that real life is weirder than fiction. Among the ...   More

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News Unfortunately, The Onion's satire last week about the fragility of Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden proved truer than anybody could have feared. The Blazers announced tonight that the oft-injured Oden will undergo microfracture surgery on his left knee Friday and will miss the rest of this season. The team said a "recent MRI showed damaged cartilage to the surface of his femur" and that ...   More

News The option of asking Oregon voters to OK marijuana legalization in 2012 was mentioned in a WW piece this week about what's next for the marijuana movement after this month's defeat of Measure 74, which would have created a statewide system of medical marijuana dispensaries. The argument for seeking an Oregon ballot measure in two years for outright legalization is that a presidential election ...   More

News Mayor Sam Adams told our friends at KATU in this video below that the city isn't kidding around when it comes to SNOWSTORM 2010 (aka we may get up to two inches of snow this afternoon). And since mayors are often judged by their handling of snow, we assume Adams means it when he says that city officials will tow abandoned cars this time and require drivers to use traction devices on streets ...   More

News The alleged Portland bomb plot got the spotlight from former Portland news guy Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News program. O'Reilly, whose familiarity with Portland stems from his work at KATU as a reporter and anchor in the mid-1980s, got into it last night with former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and current Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on The O'Reilly Factor. After O'Reilly's intro, ...   More