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Normal 0 The very curious Political Ruminations published a very curious story on October 19th : The story concerns an FEC Filing by Concerned TaxPayers of America. It’s a deep rabbit hole indeed and there are more dead ends and cul de sacs than a Beaverton suburb.  And ... Read more

Normal 0 Battle of the ‘.orgs’:   Everyone wants jobs but no one wants to pay taxes.  And the banks are sitting on cash reserves that could unleash a wave of recovery.  Both John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley promise employment but Dudley hasn’t got clue one how to run a sta... Read more

FLASH MOB ALERT:  What if hundreds of people who really care about turning this tanker around showed up in Pioneer Courthouse Square, noon, this Friday, October 29th to let Portland know that there are options, we have fusion voting and CHANGE IS A VERB AS WELL AS A NOUN. Read more

Go ahead, have an earful, but keep listening to this site for the Sidewalk Citizen audio, coming soon. Read more

Normal 0 The Coast Guard has closed the Columbia River bar and most other entrances to coastal ports in Washington and Oregon because of dangerously high waves.  An official at the command center in Astoria, says that 30-foot seas from the storm that hit the Northwest pro... Read more

Normal 0 Normal 0 The clouds emanating from Northwest Portland’s ESCO plant are becoming a fractal-fancier’s intricate dream of purposeful chaos.  Thus far Portland’s mainstrem media has shied away from the absorbing task of sorting it out. Meanwhile, residents of th... Read more

Pete Tridish is a dedicated individual.  Senate Bill 592 is in Washington DC and so is Pete, lobbying for Low Power radio in the high-powered halls of hell's mid-level management.  We wish Pete all the best.  And surprise, surprise, much of the impetus driving SB 592 emanat... Read more

Normal 0 The Portland Business Alliance opposes Voter-Owned Elections  and the Yes on 26-108 ballot measure campaign.  The top donor to the PBA’s political action committee is – wait for it – Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, the same insurance giant the recently came under... Read more

Normal 0 Didn't get to this item, so here it is now:  Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has taken his appeal to the Supreme Court.   Yes, the man who toiled in the trenches of the culture wars to undermine America’s justice system, now is begging the  High Court to th... Read more

Normal 0 The spectre of liquefied natural gas has not departed from the Cascadia landscape.  And the out-of-state interests intent on exploiting our rivers, wildlands and shores have not given up.  And they will not give up.  They have limitless resources and they are goi... Read more