Losers 1. Former Grant High student body president Tom Curtis has eluded the Portland Police Bureau for months, but his luck may soon run out. Newsweek and Inside Edition have shown interest in the story of his alleged armed-robbery spree and flight from the law, a story WW broke May 27: “The Boys Next Door” 2. After a year of design reviews, the Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill Neighborhood Association finally lost its appeals against the design of the seven-story, 102-room Avalon Hotel along the Willamette River Greenway. Neighbors say they are shocked at last week's 4-0 vote in favor of the hotel design, given Mayor Vera Katz and City Councilor Jim Francesconi's attacks on the building. But neighbors aren't whipped. They may take the case to the state Land Use Board of Appeals. 3. It's not just young voters that the major parties are ignoring in their voter-drive efforts. On Monday, a front-page Wall Street Journal story said the two political parties are using new computer databases to look "past the tuned-out majority toward the smaller, more partisan groups most likely to show up on Election Day." Groups such as the Sierra Club and AFL-CIO are following suit; both have cut their TV ad budgets "in favor of a ramped-up effort to turn out members," according to the Journal. |
