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Is it Legal For Election Authorities In Oregon to Disclose to Individual Campaigns Who Has Voted and Who Has Not?

God, Citizen, you’re so naive. Whom you vote for is a secret. Whether you’ve voted is a matter of public record. (Not only that, if your MacBook has a webcam, the Democratic Party is watching you masturbate.)

“I Hear Restrooms In the Remodeled Portland Building May Be ‘All-Gender.’ What Problem Is This Solving?”

I’m fine with trans women in the ladies room, but I don’t want male colleagues there. What problem is this solving? Was the trans community included in this “solution”?

Apparently the New Water Treatment Plant Is Going to Take 10 Years to Build. What Is This, the Great Pyramids?

For those of you who recently emerged from a two-year coma: Last year, the Portland Water Bureau detected trace amounts of the parasite cryptosporidium in the water.

Instead of Tolling Freeways, What About a Time-Tested Solution: HOV Lanes?

It’s true, our only HOV lane is that one on I-5. And at 3 pm, when the left lane goes HOV and all the single occupancy vehicles, or SOVs, have to merge into the two right lanes, you can actually watch the afternoon traffic jam freeze in place, like a snowflake forming under an electron microscope.

Our Neighbors Burn Their Garbage. What’s the Best Way to Report This Without Criminalizing Poverty?

Our neighbors burn their garbage. The stench is nasty, but we’re reluctant to report them because they appear to be low-income workers sharing a house. What’s the best way to approach this without criminalizing poverty?

Why Can’t You Recycle Clamshell Containers Made of PET?

According to the National Association for PET Container Resources, or NAPCOR, single-layer thermoplastic PET clamshells could indeed—theoretically, at least—be recycled along with the PET soda bottles we’ve all been recycling for years.

In Last Week’s Column, Dr. Know Falsely Stated Urine Is Sterile. He Regrets the Error.

You had bad info in your last column: Urine is not sterile. Further, though it is true the mouth and saliva can fend off some pathogens, tiny tears and abrasions in the oral mucosa can lead to herpes infections, esophageal cancer, and even HIV.

Urine Is Sterile, So Why Do Men Wash Their Hands After Urinating?

There is actually a legitimate reason for this—but first, Concerned, allow me to congratulate you for taking what clearly began as a boast about how much fellatio you’ve been getting lately and managing to dress it up as a legitimate scientific inquiry.

In 2004, Portland Abandoned Plans to Develop an Old Graveyard After Learning People Were Still Buried There

This week’s action—or lack thereof—takes place in Lone Fir Cemetery, which you may recall from the days when you could still afford to live in close-in Southeast Portland.

Has a Cemetery Ever Been Sold to a Housing Developer?

“Seems like an easy way to deal with the local housing shortage.”

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