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Unless one is desperately ill - or already dead - healthcare reform is no longer up there in the spotlight on the highwire, working without a net.  And without Ted Kennedy.  Advocacy groups are still advocating and the insurance industry continues to jack up rates while act... Read more

Think Haiti!  Feel Haiti!  Hear Haiti!  And support local Haitians' relief efforts.  Tomorrow night, that's Friday, February 5th  the Society for Haitian Arts and Culture is doing a benefit at the Immigrant Refugee Community Organization, 10301 NE Glisan.  6 til 9 pm.   Inf... Read more

The nation as a whole appears more and more these days to be adrift in psychic freefall::  we've got Portland police shooting a suspect with a beanbag gun, taking another 9 seconds to think it over and then nailing the man with an AR-15 assault rifle - just to be on the saf... Read more

'Thanks for asking'...three American tourists and an Uruguayan were arrested (while eating ice cream!)  for asking Oaxacan governor Ulises Ruiz, another frozen confection fan seated at a nearby table, about the investigation into the murder of Brad Will.  Turns out one wron... Read more

Lost in the 24-hour shitstorm of news, somewhere out on an unpaved, potholed frequency, someone lost their medicine bag in a drunk driving stop...  Happens... And somewhere in a terrestrial sub-basement floating rudderless on a silent sea of magma there's an earthquake with... Read more

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While mainstream media wallows in President Obama's State of the Union speech, the world rolls inexorably - or perhaps execrably - on.  OSU discovers that wildfires are not as bad for forests as logging.  In downtown Portland one man set fire to himself and City Hall was ev... Read more

This past Monday, US Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced three human rights activists  - the SOA-4 - to six months in federal prison for standing at the gate to the nefarious School of the Americas and praying...sort of   'Pay to Pray'.  One would imagine that the SOA ... Read more

Oregon voters decide the Fate of the State today - and it looks like it's going to be close.  'Close'?  What this is about is services - schools, police, fire departments, emergency rooms, libraries, parks...All the things we take for granted, all the things Americans feel ... Read more

Toussaint Louverture has loosed something stranger than haints in the hills around Port-au-Prince down to the rolling blue washing Jacqmel.  Until the earthquake, the world was unfazed by Haiti's hellish Present:  its foreign sweatshops, deforested land, barren farms, AIDS,... Read more