May 14th, 2008
Home improvement for elephants. Protesters and kids out in the cold.0 comments
May 7th, 2008
No Justice, No Peace.1 comment
April 30th, 2008
Pranks drunken and otherwise. 0 comments
April 23rd, 2008
Web-only Edition1 comment
April 16th, 2008
Dead writers edition.0 comments
April 9th, 2008
Combo No. 1: College Athletics Scandals With a Side of Illiteracy2 comments
April 2nd, 2008
Justice denied, place names mangled.3 comments
March 26th, 2008
Here's Our Bracket For The Week0 comments
March 12th, 2008
Hot Jeff and Cold Beavers. 2 comments
March 5th, 2008
This week’s 3 R’S: RIEKE, RECESSION AND A REVISITED ROGUE.2 comments
 Randy leonard: Let’s take all the lawyers. |
[March 19th, 2008]
Winners
1 Yoink! Over the objections of the Portland Development Commission, Mayor Tom Potter and fellow Commissioner Dan Saltzman, Randy Leonard brought the PDC’s in-house legal department under the city attorney’s supervision (See “Hostile Takeover,” WW, March 5). Suggestion for the PDC law shop’s last memo: OK’ing use of duct tape during City Council interrogations.
2 Portland high-school hoops dunked the state last weekend with the Grant boys winning the 6A tournament and the Jeff boys taking the 5A title. BTW, could somebody in City Hall lift a finger and get this tournament moved from Eugene back to Portland? Here’s the deal, Eugene: You can have Hacky Sack. But we get basketball.
3 State Sen. Brad Avakian (D-Bethany) had the luck o’ the Irish last week. Avakian, a workers’ comp lawyer, was facing a tough primary race for secretary of state. Then he got the call from Gov. Ted Kulongoski to head up the Bureau of Labor and Industries. The current BOLI chief, Dan Gardner, is quitting to be a union lobbyist in Washington, D.C., where no one plays Hacky Sack.
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Losers
1 Lay off the sake: Fishermen have been banned from catching any salmon off Oregon’s coast until April 30. Last week the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Pacific Fishery Management Council announced the ban to counteract the dramatic decrease in Chinook in California and Oregon waters. Changing ocean currents, pollution and hungry sea lions have been blamed—but SoCal water hogs are the chief suspect.
2 There’s no chicken shortage—yet—thanks to the diligence of the federales who busted 63 suspects in a Washington-Oregon cockfighting ring last week. The fowl players were apparently even less discreet than the Emperors Club VIP.
3 Blind folks must go elsewhere for their news fix, now that Oregon Public Broadcasting is axing a service where newspaper and magazine articles are read aloud for the vision-impaired and otherwise disabled. Four OPB employees are losing their jobs—and the print media loses still more eyeballs.
