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WINNERS
1. Mayor Vera Katz's
announcement of her brush with breast cancer showed class,
as she took the opportunity to promote regular self-exams,
mammograms and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
It also showed the competence of her political operation--her
friends and employees knew for weeks, but nobody leaked.
2.Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's antitrust
ruling may be bad news for Microsoft, but it's good news
for Portland-based PR firm Waggener Edstrom, which
runs interference for the software giant. Just think of
all the billable hours a reorganization would mean!
3. The local organizers of Jubilee 2000, a global
movement to encourage forgiveness of debt owed by Third
World countries, got a boost for their April 9 rally (1
pm at the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave.).
In addition to the usual labor unions, enviros and social-justice
junkies who jumped on the anti-WTO bandwagon, the Jubilee
received a letter of support from Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon
Smith. .
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LOSERS
1. The Department of Fish and Wildlife disclosed
last week that more than 100 Blue Herons have died
in netting meant to protect hatchery steelhead, some of
the same fish likely in the future to meet the fat end of
baseball bats wielded by state fishery employees. Go figure.
2. The Port of Portland is going up against the
big boys now. After years of pushing around the Department
of Environmental Quality, the Port and other river polluters
are now facing the less indulgent feds thanks to the Willamette
River Superfund listing.
3. We don't expect to see them spanging in Pioneer
Square or cleaning up in the library bathroom, but it's
still got to be tough for the newly homeless horses who
are displaced while Portland Meadows finally figures out
a way to cut the crap flowing into the Columbia Slough.
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