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WINNERS
1. Medical marijuana continues to
drift into the mainstream. The state is now looking at whether
to expand the list to include people who suffer from depression,
bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.
2. Good news for freedom-loving kids. A study
produced this week gave summer school low marks: The 1,375
Portland kids who attended made only slight gains, and some
even regressed.
3. Space-craving canines are wagging their
tails with glee after a task force of two-leggers unleashed
a report recommending that more of the city's parks be set
aside for man's best friend. Watch where you step.
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LOSERS
1. State Republicans and Democrats
both lost in the election chess game this week. The GOP
can't find anyone to take on U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley, and
the Ds came up empty in their bid to take over state Sen.
John Lim's open seat in Gresham.
2. They weren't exactly lining up to do voluntary
background checks at the Expo Center's gun show last weekend.
(Big surprise.) That's bad news for the Oregon Gunowners,
whose ballot initiative would keep such checks voluntary--but
good news for Sen. Ginny Burdick, whose competing measure
would make them mandatory.
3. What kind of sucker signs a contract but can't
get a copy? Patrons of 24-Hour Fitness, that's who.
But that may change now that Attorney General Hardy Myers
is taking the gym giant to task for disobeying Oregon's
health spa laws.
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