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WINNERS
1. Teachers and students got
a reprieve from make-work hell last week from the Department
of Education. Under an ODE proposal, the number of work
samples required by the state's creaking school-reform plan
would be slashed by 40 percent. The state school board will
rule on the proposal later this month.
2. Gays and lesbians won twice last week:
First, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld a city ordinance
that allows them to sue employers for job discrimination,
and then, as predicted, Mayor Vera Katz floated plans to
form a legal registry for same-sex couples.
3. In classic post-Cold War style, the feds are
finally admitting that it's hazardous to your health to
work around nuclear weapons. The confession is good news
for glowing workers in the Northwest whose cancer
and other ills have been dismissed for years.
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LOSERS
1. PGE is using a Trojan on ratepayers again. The
Oregonian reported last week that sloppy storage of
spent fuel rods at the dormant nuke plant could cause PGE
customers to have to fork over millions of dollars.
2. Rosie O'Donnell.
3. Super Bowl-watching couch potatoes in
Oregon, Washington and California were forced to think twice
about what they were cramming in their face, thanks to the
news that four brands of five-layer Mexican-style dip contained
a deadly bacteria that poisoned 49 people, causing them
to experience cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and other gross
stuff.
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