Winners

1. Gov. John Kitzhaber got a belated Valentine from an unlikely source when David Reinhard, The Oregonian's most conservative columnist, nuked Bill Sizemore's "unstaffed, undisciplined, shoot from the hip candidacy." At issue was Sizemore's baldly opportunistic and ill-conceived call to shore up the Capes development.

2. Thanks to an $82,000 grant from the Bosack-Kruger Foundation of Rutland, Wash., the Feral Cat Coalition of Portland has the nation's first mobile clinic to sterilize feral felines. The specially equipped GMC truck will allow the local veterinarians and other volunteers to expand their turf, becoming the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon.

3.Oregon consumers now have 12 new special attorneys general to protect them from consumer ripoffs. Attorney General Hardy Myers introduced the dozen private-sector volunteers last week.

Losers

1. It looks like taxpayers will take another one in the shorts as they're asked to pony up $314,000 for Police Bureau superguns. Issues such as whether the guns are actually needed, who will carry them and why have yet to be answered. But the weapons sure look cool.

2. The hopes of baseball and soccer fans were dashed last week when a marketing survey suggested that Portland has about as much chance as Wankers Corners of attracting a major-league franchise in either sport.

3. Local stock brokerage firm Black and Co. was fined $20,000 for mismanagement by the National Association of Securities Dealers, an organization known for displaying less regulatory zeal than the average loan shark.