January 7th, 2009
Estate Of Denial | Think prosecuting elder abuse will be easy under Newly passed Measure 57? Maybe not.3 comments
December 31st, 2008
From Academia To Zetamania | WW revisits three cover stories from 2008.0 comments
December 24th, 2008
The Big Turnoff | Can’t pay for heat or other utilities this winter? Expect a cold, cold response.0 comments
December 10th, 2008
Snow Job | A Molalla couple fights to keep Snowball but Deserts Juanita, Bonita and Lolita, their pot-bellied pigs.2 comments
December 3rd, 2008
Big Dam Fight | The Legislature may end a long-festering dispute affecting one billionaire, a half-million Oregonians and more fish than you can count.1 comment
November 26th, 2008
A Mess With Taxes | How can Oregon give a $10 million tax break to a company whose affiliate may owe taxpayers $20 million?5 comments
September 3rd, 2008
Elephants Suffer, On All Fronts.1 comment
August 27th, 2008
Taking Your Share and Then Some1 comment
August 20th, 2008
Teenage Drinkers, Bikini Coffee and Cuban Showgirls0 comments
August 13th, 2008
Trucker Bombs: Still Preferable to Russian Bombs.0 comments
 FOLLOW THE LEED-ER |
[November 14th, 2007]
Winners
1 Portland’s LEED consultants are smelling green after Commissioner Dan Saltzman proposed a city-wide environmental building code penalizing buildings that aren’t certified energy efficient. Nothing’s more sustainable than a good racket.
2 If you’re a cigarette-smoking land-use lawyer , last week’s election was all about you. Voters’ rejection of Measure 50 means no 85-cent increase in taxes on a pack of smokes. And voters’ approval of Measure 49 means lawyers will be flush with clients trying to sort through what the measure means for their property-development claims.
3Lincoln High kids may get a new school if developers Homer Williams and Mark Edlen get their wish. The pair floated a plan to replace overcrowded, aging Lincoln with high-end condos and move the school that serves some of Portland’s wealthiest kids to a bigger site. And the new school would be enviro-friendly: LEED consultants win again!!
Losers
1 National media may kiss our ass for being perfect (see “PDX Inked,” WW , Oct. 24, 2007), but the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t share the love. The feds’ court victory last week over the city Water Bureau means Portland water customers will pay for a cleanup to filter out cryptosporidium, a parasite the city swears isn’t a threat in our pure Bull Run goodness.
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2 Portland taxpayers are also out $500,000, after the city agreed to pay the family of a suicidal man who was fatally shot in 2005 by Officer Leo Besner. Raymond Gwerder was on the phone with a police negotiator when Besner, a police sniper, shot him in the back. We’re all for the payout; we just wish the cops would save the bullets for when they’re needed.
3Gov. Ted Kulongoski ’s judgement suffered a potential embarrassment with the re-arrest of one of the half-dozen people he’s pardoned in the past five years (“Jackpot,” WW , Aug. 8. 2007). The Eugene Register-Guard reported last week that Springfield police arrested Kelly Lee and her husband Stace Lee last week on charges of meth possession and child endangerment.
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