Winners

1. Local gun control advocates got a boost last week, as both Mayor Vera Katz and Police Chief Charles Moose made it clear that they will use the death of Officer Colleen Waibel to push for more firearms restrictions.

2. When a review of city reserve funds showed the Portland Development Commission sitting on $13 million in extra cash, no one was happier than the folks in the Office of Transportation, whose own reserves stand at just $500,000. The city's transit office has been paying PDC's annual $1 million light-rail bill for six years, a practice that now seems sure to stop.

3. Determined to prove that his keyboard can still be mightier than a sword, Oregonian columnist Steve Duin summed up our city's role in the Monica Lewinsky affair in the opening sentence of his Jan. 29 column: "Determined to prove that Tonya Harding wasn't a fluke, Portland coughed up another hairball Tuesday, the ponytailed Andy Bleiler."

Losers

1. Some well-worn advice to Sen. Randy Miller: If you're going to shoot the king, don't miss. Last week the Lake Oswego Republican, fuming about plans to build a prison in Wilsonville, rounded up a handful of conservative colleagues and gave Senate President Brady Adams an ultimatum: Quash the prison site by demanding a unified GOP opposition, or face a challenge to his job. Adams stood tall, and Miller backed down.

2. Revenge may be sweet, but it's even sweeter if someone takes notice. Former Blazers coach P.J. Carlesimo came to town and watched his usually hapless Golden State Warriors trounce the home team Tuesday night. But after the game, all anyone wanted to talk about was Latrell Sprewell's arbitration hearing, which took place in Portland earlier that day.

3.Nike's new "I can" slogan-- particularly its "I can celebrate without rioting" commercial--turned out to be less than accurate. Denver officials say Bronco fans' post-Super Bowl "celebration" resulted in 22 arrests, 60 injuries, 40 tons of trash and damage to 30 windows and 15 cop cars.