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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
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Teenage Drinkers, Bikini Coffee and Cuban Showgirls0 comments
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[November 21st, 2007]
Winners
1 You wouldn’t think the fluoride mafia would have any pull in Oregon, one of the few states that doesn’t put fluoride in its water. But a state report last week slamming rampant rot in our children’s teeth reads like it came straight from would-be fluoridators—or an underpaid dentist’s office.
2 The University of Portland women’s soccer team overcame its annual tournament hose job by the NCAA—getting sent to play early-round games on the road despite a high seed. The Pilots’ reward for winning two road contests last week and advancing to the third round: an actual home game this Saturday, Nov. 24, against Tennessee.
3 In a PR coup by local scientists who experiment on animals , OHSU researchers announced breakthroughs on monkey stem-cell cloning following major successes cloning precursors to monkey embryos. The news broke the day after PETA announced it had infiltrated OHSU’s primate-research center and found evidence of abuse against monkeys. Maybe the million-dollar clones will get more respect. (See page 12 for more on PETA’s infiltration.)
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Losers
1 Look for a whole lot more car washes at Jesuit High School. The Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, of which the westside high school is part, agreed to pay out $50 million this week to compensate victims abused by Jesuit priests in Alaska. Can the kids wash away their elders’ sins?
2Salmon lose again. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week OK-ed the relicensing of four controversial PacifiCorp dams on the Klamath River in Southern Oregon. That fishy decision comes despite federal studies showing scrapping the dams to be cheaper—not to mention better for fish—than herding salmon into traps and trucking them 80 miles around the dams.
3 Budding artists feel the heat after a Southern Oregon first-grader was suspended from school for drawing a stick figure shooting another stick figure in the head. Stick to tanks and planes, kids! It’s not murder when the U.S. government does it.
RECENT COMMENTS ON “Monkeys in cages. Salmon in trucks.”
The timing of the announcement of the monkey stem cell "breakthroughs" was craven. That this line of reasearch is worthless became evident yesterday.
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I agree with newsguy. A recommendation by FERC staff is non-binding and purely advisory. But the dams should come down either way. Warren Buffett and his rich cronies who own PacifiCorp should stop...
Well, if the monkeys at OHSU are being treated so badly, then here's a solution; release the monkeys and experiment on PETA members! Then we'd all be happy; the PETA morons wouldn't have to cry over t...
My friend - rather hesitantly - took a job doing pathology on monkeys at the OHSU site. After a few months working there, she gave it the thumbs up. The monkeys, for the most part, are treated really...
