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 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 19th, 2008
First tuna, now salmon—sushi menus get smaller every week.0 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
[April 23rd, 2008]
WINNERS
1. Teeny-boppers scored this week when the OLCC decided, after much ado, to allow minors into music venues that serve booze. Under the liquor control agency’s new rules, which take effect June 1, minors can see their favorite bands (or, you know, whoever’s playing that night) at venues that create a “minor control plan.” In other OLCC news, “April is Alcohol Awareness Month!” Trust us, we know...and do you have to shout?
2. Moving on uptown: The Sauvie Island Bridge got a new lease on life this week when City Commissioner Dan Saltzman changed his mind about Sam Adams’ plan to move the old bridge to I-405, at Northwest Flanders Street, and make it bikes-only. Saltzman gave the thumbs-down to Adams’ earlier plan—a $5.5 million no-bid contract with Max J. Kuney Construction. Now the city plans to go with the lowest bidder. What a concept.
3. Truth be told, David Lee Patterson came out a huge winner last week. A Multnomah County grand jury decided against indicting Patterson, who’d confessed to killing a man in 1991. Patterson, a 60-year-old black man, said he killed Eric Denis Lamon, a white man, in self-defense after Lamon kicked him and shouted racial epithets when Patterson was lying on the street homeless.
LOSERS
1. Tough week for City Council candidate John Branam. First, Branam got his hands slapped by auditor Gary Blackmer, who administers the city’s publicly-financed elections system. Blackmer said Branam’s compensation of campaign manager Phil Busse was excessive and forbade him from giving Busse any more than the $20,000 already paid. Then blogger Jack Bogdanski produced a lawsuit in which the plaintiff, a former Port of Portland employee, noted that Branam, who also briefly worked at the port, got his job because of a recommendation from disgraced former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Ouch.
2. Two top Portland Development Commission execs, development manager Cheryl Tweete and housing manager Andy Wilch, got the boot as the agency executed a sweeping reorganization that made newcomer Erin Flynn the big winner and likely favorite to replace current PDC director Bruce Warner.
3. Kristy Lee Cook, the American Idol crooner from Oregon—whose ego, in one episode, eclipsed the immensity of Dolly Parton’s chest—was booted off the best-ever television show last week. No worries, KLC fans: We hear Big Brother Season 437 has put out a casting call.











The McCarthyist approach to Goldschmidt is ridiculous. Next, we'll find out Branam doesn't wear a flag pin. But the Busse thing does hurt him in a race with plenty of other people to choose.