|
WINNERS
1. Let's get this straight: The EPA says the Department
of Environmental Quality is about as tough on industrial
polluters as a sleeping nanny, and the state Legislature
wants to cut the agency's budget. Yet Gov. John Kitzhaber
and the Portland Harbor Group (10 riverfront
landowners, including the Port of Portland) seem to have
convinced the EPA not to list the Willamette River as a
Superfund site and to let the limp-wristed DEQ handle the
clean-up. Smooth.
2. Chanterelle mushrooms (Take that, you
uppity morels.)
3. It's prime time at Reed College after
last week's announcement that the world's largest prime
number (which has more than 2 million digits) was identified
by means of an algorithm written by physics prof Richard
Crandall.
|
|
LOSERS
1. The working poor lost ground Thursday
when the Oregon Senate voted to ban inclusionary zoning,
a tool used by some jurisdictions to force developers to
include affordable housing among their plush subdivisions.
Not to worry, though: We hear rent is cheap in North Dakota.
2. Animal lovers got horsewhipped last week when
the city refused to find greener pastures for the Police
Bureau mounted-patrol unit's new stable. The bureau's trusty
steeds will be forced to live under the east end of
the Steel Bridge, where they will breathe in car exhaust
and gallop to the roar of speeding vehicles on I-5 and I-84.
3. History buffs will have a harder time finding
out what Lewis really said to Clark after the Oregon History
Center lays off nine employees on July 1. Loss of grant
funding caused director Chet Orloff to wield
his ax.
|
