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WINNERS
1. Longtime North Portland politico Margaret
Carter burnished her reputation when the United Way
of the Columbia-Willamette agreed to restore $90,000 in
funding to the Urban League, the troubled social-service
agency that Carter took over last month.
2. After a bizarre four-year scientific custody
battle, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt decided that the
9,000-year-old skeleton dubbed Kennewick Man belongs to
five American Indian tribes, who intend to bury him
with full honors.
3. Last week the city of Beaverton said it would
refund roughly $20,000 worth of photo-radar tickets to westside
speed-demons because police put warning signs in the
wrong place. That's a big improvement from 1997, when the
Beav had to kick down $40,000 to leadfoot scofflaws.
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LOSERS
1. Federal investigators dropped a ton of bricks
on pension fund manager Jeff Grayson and his son
Barclay last week (thanks, Dad!). The feds ordered
the closure of the Graysons' company, Capital Consultants,
saying that $160 million of union pension money under their
management was gone, daddy, gone.
2. Portland fire inspectors are seething after
an imposter posing as a fire inspector stole from a number
of local businesses over the summer. Anthony L. Lockridge,
who has spent time in jail for a similar scheme, was charged
with theft--cold comfort to the inspectors, who must now
convince fuming business owners they're the real McCoy.
3. There ought to be a law against posthumous name-dropping.
On her perky Willamette Valley campaign tour last week,
Tipper Gore told the Eugene Register-Guard that she
and her record label nemesis Frank Zappa were actually
friends. Zappa, who wrote lyrics like, "She's my Teenage
Baby, and she turns me on, I'd like to make her do a nasty
on the White House Lawn!" must be rolling over in his grave.
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