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WINNERS
1. With the city's proposed Interstate
Urban Renewal District gobbling up her budget, Multnomah
County Chair Beverly Stein went hat in hand to the
City Council--brother, can you spare $2 million? Now it
looks like a majority of the council favors forking over
$1 million, which is what Stein wanted all along.
2. Portland beat cops finally get public attention
to a problem they've been complaining about for years: police
radios that don't work. Last week, the state Occupational
Safety and Health Division fined the city for its shoddy
system. Maybe now City Hall bean counters will fix the problem
before an officer gets killed for lack of backup.
3. If you think there are a lot of hippies in Portland,
just wait 'til the Dalai Lama gets here. Buddhing metro-area
groovesters celebrated (peacefully and with respect for
all living things) this week when the Northwest Tibetan
Cultural Association announced plans to build a Tibetan
Studies and World Peace Center in Portland.
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LOSERS
1. The outlook is bleak for Charles Starr, the rapidly
fossilizing GOP candidate for Oregon's 1st Congressional
District. Despite incumbent Demo David Wu's slender political
résumé and his votes against lifting trade
sanctions with China, which angered powerful Washington
County industry, Starr has raised a paltry $33,000 for this
fall's race--one-twentieth of his opponent's war chest.
2. A dramatic dip in local blood supply prompted the Red
Cross to declare a "red alert," which could spell catastrophe
for West Hills wives who may have to delay surgery
on their droopy eyelids, beakish noses and dimpled thighs.
3. Bad news for philatelists, numismatists and gun nuts:
Darth Sizemore's tax-whacking initiative (Measure 93) has
got the Metropolitan Exposition-Recreation Commission so
spooked that it has delayed a planned 180,000 square-foot
expansion of the Oregon Convention Center until after
the election.
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