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WINNERS
1. Everything's coming up Rose-Tu
at the Oregon Zoo. Not only was an elephant handler
cleared of cruelty charges against the elephant, but the
Zoo got a $500,000 donation to put toward a new sea-life
exhibit this week.
2. Charter school advocates got a late Christmas
present when Portland Public Schools approved McCoy Academy's
application. School officials had hoped to delay accepting
any charters until after the school year, but McCoy, which
has few friends inside the school bureaucracy, rallied thanks
to strong community support and brow-beating from The
Oregonian's editorial page.
3. Portland police officers are getting their 15
minutes of fame with a series of radio ads unveiled last
week in which they tell the public why they deserve a pay
raise over the 1.1 percent a year the city is offering.
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LOSERS
1. Salmon man Gov. John Kitzhaber was left
without a key ally when Washington guv Gary Locke shut the
door on his regional plan to balance fish protection and
dams in the Columbia River Basin. Locke walked.
2. Metro Councilor Bill Atherton is once
again the odd man out. Shortly after getting slammed by
The Oregonian for proposing that council members
shouldn't vote on issues that affect their campaign contributors,
he was left high and dry when this year's committee assignments
were handed out and he didn't receive a single chairmanship.
3. An Oregon State University study dispelled suspicions
that French restaurants and pickup trucks were responsible
for the mysterious decline of frog populations over recent
years. OSU scientists found instead that nitrates in fertilizers,
even in concentrations deemed harmless to humans, prove
fatal to Kermit's cousins.
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