Winners

1.Time and Newsweek don't always have the same cover. Next week, barring more breaking news on the Clinton cat house, Time plans to roll out a Nike cover story based on exclusive access to CEO Phil Knight and the Nike campus. Newsweek, scraping for a Nike story, learned of its rival's scoop this week.

2. More than 300 folks from Portland's labor community paid tribute last weekend to Jesse Stranahan, longtime member of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 40. The celebration of Stranahan's labor work earned a visit from Brian McWilliams, president of the national ILWU. Stranahan died March 4 at age 79.

3. Longtime basketball announcer Bill Schonely was honored this week for calling his 2,500th game for the Trail Blazers. Not only did the Schonz get VIP treatment from Gov. John Kitzhaber, Mayor Vera Katz and former Blazers Bill Walton and Clyde Drexler, but his feat was also noted in the current issue of Sports Illustrated.

Losers

1.Bob Tiernan and Jim Westwood, candidates for the Oregon Supreme Court seat vacated by Susan Garber, are facing more unified opposition now. One of the liberal candidates, longtime employee plaintiffs' lawyer Charles Merten, dropped out of the race and threw his support behind Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Bill Riggs.

2.Airline travelers who drive to the airport now have another parking option--and another way to get hosed. Signs direct cars approaching the terminal to two options: short-term parking and the garage, which recently opened. What they don't tell you until it's too late is that the garage costs more--a buck per half hour, or $48 a day.

3. Portland's warriors in the war on drugs took a hit from pro-pot activist Marc Emery, a Vancouver, British Columbia, entrepreneur who has opened the successful Cannabis Cafe, in which patrons openly light up the evil weed. Interviewed in the current issue of Rolling Stone, Emery says, "Sooner or later this place will be imitated around North America. That's ultimately my great revolutionary idea." The only U.S city Emery identifies as potential pot turf is Stumptown.