Why some cities' workers are walking around with long rods.
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Dick Torpey squints at the hot summer sky and slowly walks across a parking lot with two thin, yard-long rods held lightly in front of him. After a few steps, the rods swing together and cross, pointi ...
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Rogue of the Week
You know you're in Rogue country when you have to defend yourself by saying, "I am not a bigot."That's part of what Troy Hake, owner of the ironically named Outsidepride.com, Inc., allegedly wrote to ...
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Rogue of the Week
If you want to tape a "For Sale" sign in your car window, you may risk a fine throughout the Portland metro area because many cities forbid parking a car on a public street "for the purpose of" sellin ...
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Rogue of the Week
If annual interest rates as high as 500 percent don't deter you from a payday loan, consider this: You could end up in court.WW has learned that Oak Brook Financial, one of Oregon's largest payday len ...
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The CEO for Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette gets bent at Bush about more than abortion.
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The CEO of the local Planned Parenthood warns that the family-planning organization now has fresh reason to worry about the Bush administration, beyond its longstanding anti-abortion stance.David Gree ...
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A Rogue so explosive that we needed extra space for it: House Majority Leader Wayne Scott.
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CORRECTION WW made errors in a June 28, 2006, story it published about state House Majority Leader Wayne Scott (R-Canby) and his fireworks company, Western Fireworks. The story had to do with Senate B ...
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Rogue of the Week
You might want to think twice before tossing that seemingly nondescript letter from Kaiser Permanente or OHSU in the trash. If you choose to ignore it, your health information and biological samples c ...
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