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Don’t Bring A Gun To Your Snowball Fight.

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BY AARON MESH & BEN WATERHOUSE | 503-243-2122

[December 17th, 2008]

PREPARING FOR DISASTER:  Portland’s City Council is taking up an ordinance that would limit the mayor’s power to restrict the sale and carrying of guns during a disaster.

7,900: The number of Washington County’s approximately 10,000 licensed concealed-weapons permit holders who requested the county not release their names to public-records requests.

REVENGE OF THE HOMELESS: Advocates are pursuing a class-action lawsuit against the city’s anti-camping ordinance.

8.1 percent:  Oregon’s latest unemployment rate, the state’s highest in five years.

MAKE LEMONADE:  City Commissioner Randy Leonard is threatening to sue Ford Motor Co. over problems with biodiesel in the city’s fleet of pickups.













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I just gotta have one of those Leonard decals for the back of my car!!! Ya, watch out Ford.

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