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Today the Kitzhaber Campaign released an ad profiling the differences between John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley. The ad compares the two candidates’ experience, commitment to Oregon, and records of accomplishment. ...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - 9:08 a.m.
Start Date: Mon, 2010/09/20 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Avenue. This debate and forum is held pending acceptance from Art Robinson and is sponsored by the Corvallis Gazette-Times. ...
Benton County Democrats - 9:08 a.m.
From The Underground Man (1971): He gave me the tricky look of a half-smart man who had never learned the limits of his own intelligence. She wasn't the sort of woman you confessed human weakness to. "It was a shallow grave, ma'am. Girls can do about anything boys can do when they set their minds to it." I could smell her sun-tan oil, and I felt as if everybody but me was paired off like t...
Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience - 9:07 a.m.
I'm a little late to this story, but given how this has the potential to essentially end Kevin Mannix in Oregon politics, it's a pretty big deal. Mannix's sugar daddy, Loren Parks (who has a, shall we say, colorful...background ) has shut off the money spigot for Mannix. Les Zaitz, The Oregonian : One of Oregon's most high-profile political alliances – between Republican activist Kevin ...
BlueOregon - 7:02 a.m.
One of the fascinating things about my boyhood haunts in northern New Jersey was how homeowners would paint some of the concrete around their properties green. From an airplane, it looked like grass -- and maybe it kept the house a tiny bit cooler in the blasting heat of the summer. Here in Oregon, we haven't quite reached that point. But we're getting close. Accordingto a KGW story last night...
Jack Bog's Blog - 5:46 a.m. - 4 clicks 
Chris Dudley would have you believe that he's pro-choice. He even deliberately picked a fight with Right to Life to make the point. But the fact is, as Carla Axtman noted a few weeks ago, Chris Dudley is not pro-choice . He supports parental notification - which Oregon voters rejected at the ballot as recently as 2006. (And here's why.) But I can't put a finer point on it than Roey Th...
BlueOregon - 12:27 a.m. - 5 clicks
Here's more good legal news for the vast majority of Oregonians who want our state to stay as green as possible -- both environmentally and economically. Hot on the heels of a Marion County District Court judge's reversal of the......
Hines Sight - Wed 11:08 p.m. - 4 clicks
by Sean Cruz Portland, Oregon-- Proponents of Measure 75 and the Wood Village Casino have placed their bets on the “Pass” line, but they will come up craps regardless of how the November vote turns out. Measure 75 is fatally flawed with several violations of the Oregon Constitution. The first issue lies in this line: "The Legislative Assembly has no power to authorize, and shall prohibit , ca...
Blogolitical Sean - Wed 8:28 p.m. - 14 clicks
On Thursday, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission takes a look at a new Wolf Management Plan. For those who care about the future of wolves in our state, this is the moment we’ve been waiting for. The agenda includes time for comments from the public. Wolf supporters – and detractors – are hoping for a good turnout so the Commission can finally hear what Oregonians think about...
Natural Oregon - Wed 5:28 p.m. - 5 clicks
Thanks to Kristen Hagstrom, Deputy Director, SE Uplift, for the following information. Southeast Uplift has announced the projects to receive $8,486 in grant funds allocated by the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement through the 2010-2011 Graffiti Abatement Community Grant Program. In an attempt to get fund...
City Commissioner Amanda Fritz - Wed 4:25 p.m. - 5 clicks
Britain Foreign Secretary William Hague said a male special adviser with whom he shared a hotel room had resigned Wednesday over “malicious” claims that they had an “inappropriate relationship,” reports the Associated Free Press. Following days of newspaper and Internet chatter about Hague’s relationship with adviser Christopher Myers, along with rumors of Hague’...
Just Out Blog - Wed 2:21 p.m. - 9 clicks
Just a couple of weeks ago, Portland-by-way-of-Hawaii crooner Niki Villiarimo journeyed down to San Francisco to audition for American Idol for the second time in three years. Having come off of a stirring third place finish in Red Cap Garage’s first Portland Idol competition in late July (a competition won by the very deserving Tamra [...]...
Just Out Blog - Wed 2:21 p.m. - 8 clicks
The Republican senator from New York sure has done well on a public servant's salary. Even the O is catching on ....
Jack Bog's Blog - Wed 1:26 p.m. - 16 clicks
Oregon's minor political parties don't want their party names abbreviated on the ballot. Since Secretary of State Kate Brown and her election folks are planning to do just that for the November election, the whole thing is going to county court down in Salem. You can't blame the small parties. They sit up all night dreaming up names for themselves like Working Families Party, and then Brown p...
Jack Bog's Blog - Wed 11:22 a.m. - 5 clicks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2010 Contact: Francisco Lopez, Executive Director: (503) 269-5694 Erik Sorensen, Communications Director: (503) 488-0263 Children's March & Rally at the Oregon State Capitol to highlight Need for Immigration Reform Salem, Ore.-- Over the last couple months, immigration restrictionists and right-wing politicians in Congress have been calling for...
CAUSA:blog - Wed 11:22 a.m. - 3 clicks
Back in New York City, where a debate rages about whether the city's water system needs to be filtered, somebody's taken out a microscope and looked at what comes out of the tap. And they've found -- yikes! -- these guys . In Portland, a similar debate about water treatment is in progress -- although it's a stretch to call a verbal interaction with Fireman Randy a debate. Anyway, you wonder ...
Jack Bog's Blog - Wed 10:46 a.m. - 6 clicks
Mitt Romney wants to be President of the United States. Since his failed attempt in 2008, Romney has been squirreling away cash and chits in an effort to build an infrastructure as he prepares to try again in 2012. Other than efforts to build this infrastructure, I'm not aware of any significant ties to Oregon for Romney. A search (albeit not comprehensive) yields no news stories of Romney vi...
BlueOregon - Wed 10:46 a.m. - 3 clicks
By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer A facility providing storage spaces for homeless individuals to store their belongings during the day is expected to open in mid-September as the result of a public-private partnership between the City of Portland and the … Continue reading → ...
For those who can't afford free speech - Wed 10:46 a.m. - 4 clicks
Success in the classroom begins and ends with our educators. As I have traveled across Oregon, meeting with teachers and community leaders, I have been reminded of a clear fact: Oregon’s educators are a fantastically dedicated and instinctively innovative group who work everyday on shaping the future of our state. Ensuring that we can grow, support, and revitalize our educators means a commitme...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - Wed 9:46 a.m. - 5 clicks
In the war of the Bald Eagles vs. the Port of Portland Bulldozers out on Hayden Island, the wildlife and its defenders have scored at least a modest victory. Now the City of Portland and the state DEQ say they are taking another look at the Port's practice of routinely dumping dredge spoils from the Willamette River on the west end of the island. It seems that the dredging picks up low level...
Jack Bog's Blog - Wed 9:24 a.m. - 5 clicks
By Alex Lawson of Washington, DC. Alex is the communications director for the Strengthen Social Security Coalition . Debate rages in Washington about how to reduce our nation’s growing federal deficit, and pundits and politicians alike propose cutting Social Security. Even Congressman Earl Blumenauer was recently featured in a major New York Times article about the effort to reconsid...
BlueOregon - Wed 8:07 a.m. - 3 clicks
A reader in central Portland writes: Little Miss Ella needs a home! She's now 3 months old, has had first two series of shots, etc. She is very sweet, smart and affectionate. She loves to play and will keep you laughing! She was supposed to stay with my friends who have taken care of the Mama kitty and kittens, but they have had a huge emergency surgical bill for one of their dogs, and ju...
Jack Bog's Blog - Wed 7:02 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons of Portland, Oregon. Rev. Lyons is co-director of OPAL Environmental Justice and a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister affiliated with First Unitarian Church of Portland. Today at 4pm, bus riders organized by OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon are rallying at Portland City Hall saying “enough is enough” to fare increases and service cuts. In a regio...
BlueOregon - Wed 6:48 a.m. - 6 clicks
Posted: August 31st, 2010 2:43 PM Portland Fire & Rescue arson investigators arrested Randolph C. Hubbard last night in relation to fire damage to an ATM. Mr. Hubbard was arraigned this afternoon. Early on August 1, 2010, a surveillance camera......
Commissioner Randy Leonard - Tue 3:06 p.m. - 7 clicks
A Texas court of appeals has ruled that gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriages are banned, reports AP. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Dallas judge did not have jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two Dallas men who wed in Massachusetts. The [...]...
Just Out Blog - Tue 2:02 p.m. - 7 clicks
by: Katy Daily Today, Oregon State Senator Frank Morse , who represents Albany and Corvallis, made the national League of Conservation Voters ’ inaugural state-level “Dirty Dozen” list , a list of12 of the...
OLCV Blog - Tue 1:23 p.m. - 6 clicks
This morning we recieved the City of Portland's official patent certficate for the Portland Loo. It has been approved for an exclusive design patent. The City Attorney's office believes this is the City's first ever patent! We are very excited......
Commissioner Randy Leonard - Tue 12:01 p.m. - 8 clicks
When critics of Measures 67 say that it caused or is causing Oregon businesses to flee across state lines, I have - along with many others - been imploring the media to insist: Show us the math. The critics almost never even point to an actual business that's actually moving. When they do, they never provide the hard numbers. They just wave their arms wildly and expect us to believe that an...
BlueOregon - Tue 10:22 a.m. - 7 clicks
On August 30, the Progressive Party of Oregon, Working Families Party of Oregon, and State Senator Larry George (R) filed suit in Marion County Circuit Court to stop the Secretary of State from dramatically altering Oregon's general election ballot by removing from it all party names next to the names of candidates. The text of the complaint, motion for preliminary injunction, and a...
Independent Party of Oregon - Tue 7:49 a.m. - 11 clicks
My wife loves horses, but we don't have one. So she's always on the lookout for good trail rides. We've paid our money and taken our chances with quite a few stables in the Willamette Valley and central Oregon. Almost......
Hines Sight - Mon 10:44 p.m. - 10 clicks
In our campaign's second television spot, tree farmer and small businessman Paul Sansone of Gales Creek talks about his respect for Senator Wyden for opposing the $700 billion bailouts and fighting taxpayer-funded bonuses for CEOs. ...
Ron Wyden for U.S. Senate - Mon 6:24 p.m. - 9 clicks
From the always interesting Oregon Economics blog , Professor Patrick Emerson provides this graph, courtesy of the New York Times Economix Blog : State economist Tom Potiowsky describes corporate profits in Oregon as "booming" , largely due to staff cuts and pay. Apparently all those incentives for businesses in Oregon are helping somebody, if not the rank and file Oregonian. Tax reven...
BlueOregon - Mon 4:05 p.m. - 8 clicks
Over at this Oregonian blog, Jeff Mapes makes a hilarious suggestion : Here's the next thing I think the Blazers ought to do: host a half-time free throw shooting contest between Dudley and Kitzhaber for charity. It would be entertaining - and generate a lot more publicity than you could buy with the money the team gave the two candidates. Given that Chris Dudley is the worst free-throw...
BlueOregon - Mon 12:26 p.m. - 9 clicks
By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau plans to solicit proposals from social-service agencies on Aug. 26 on how to spend a special appropriation of $1 million for homeless and housing services. The money is earmarked for outreach … Continue reading → ...
For those who can't afford free speech - Mon 11:10 a.m. - 8 clicks
By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The City is continuing its push to create an alcohol impact area in downtown Portland, despite the dismal failure of a voluntary agreement between the City of Portland and downtown convenience store owners to not … Continue reading → ...
For those who can't afford free speech - Mon 11:10 a.m. - 8 clicks
Technology is changing education. E-textbooks are not online learning, but they are a step in that direction. Bill Grave has an Oregonian article "Oregon universities put iPads to the test" that discuss the use of e-texts and e-textbooks in Oregon......
Global Strategies - Mon 8:24 a.m. - 8 clicks
Oregon's Yellowstone hosts 1,400 known plant species--over 100 of which are found nowhere else on Earth. This week's flower is pine in name only......
Oregon WildBlog - Mon 8:02 a.m. - 11 clicks
I never miss one of Lars Larson’s little commentaries on the Oregon Catalyst site. They’re some of the best free entertainment on the Web. In his most recent entry, Lars warns of a sneaky plot by the Obama administration to ban bullets. Well, it wasn’t exactly the Obama administration that wanted to ban bullets – it was some conservationist groups. And they didn’...
The Wandering Eye - Sun 1:24 p.m. - 23 clicks
by Sean Cruz Portland, Oregon-- I was my mother's sole caregiver at the time my children were taken into concealment in Utah, had been so for a year. My mother's voice on this tape, with its references to my birthday and the death of Richard Nixon, dates the series of messages to May 1994, about 8 months before she came to live with my children and me. My mother, whose name was Olive Cruz, died...
Blogolitical Sean - Sun 1:24 p.m. - 16 clicks
Ooh, I love it! A judge gets into a slapdown. Not literally, of course, but judicially. A front page story in today's Statesman Journal tells the tale: "Judge blocks 43-lot subdivision in south Salem." Download SJArticle-Laack subdivision I had the......
Hines Sight - Sat 2:05 p.m. - 19 clicks
Would the state of Oregon be better off if it was its own banker? Ann Kramer thinks so. Kramer, chair of the board of the Gorge Grown Food network, an organization trying to promote a regional food system in the Columbia Gorge, writes on the Blue Oregon site that having a state bank could help “recharge Oregon’s economy.” “The State of Oregon collects and spends lots o...
The Wandering Eye - Sat 12:29 p.m. - 14 clicks
We’re going to use local sourcing and in-state supply chains to make sure Oregon businesses serve Oregon business and those jobs stay here in the state of Oregon. Oregon needs to emphasize the use of Oregon-based companies to supply other Oregon companies, thus re-circulating capital within the state and reducing the loss of capital through imports. Local sourcing and in-state supply chains...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - Fri 12:43 p.m. - 10 clicks
Portland, Ore.--Join the Oregon Latino Health Coalition and CAUSA, Oregon's Statewide Immigrant Rights Coalition in Portland for a Latino Health Policy Assembly on September 23rd The purpose of this assembly is to bring together policy makers, healthcare advocates and legislators to discuss: Legislation that would expand access for uninsured Latino children to the Healthy Kids Program Incre...
CAUSA:blog - Fri 11:41 a.m. - 9 clicks
by Sean Cruz Portland, Oregon-- Ever since the rise of Ronald Reagan, no matter what the real issue is, most political arguments have to deal with the phrase "taxing and spending" and the attitudes behind the phrase. There are many who see government at any level in no other terms. Tax and spend. Tax and spend. This mantra is far more a matter of attitude than it is sound economic or political t...
Blogolitical Sean - Fri 11:08 a.m. - 18 clicks
Increase Demand for Biomass to Create More Forestry Jobs. Fifty-eight percent of Oregon’s forestlands are federally owned. Due to years of political gridlock, inadequate funding, the absence of a consistent federal forest policy, and lack of coordination between various local, state, tribal and federal government entities, these forests have become overgrown and present a major risk of fire...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - Fri 10:49 a.m. - 16 clicks
The No Soy El Army 2010 tour kicks off a multi-stop tour across Oregon, 6-8 p.m. tonight at Rotture, 315 SE Third Ave. The event will be followed by a benefit concert for the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. No … Continue reading → ...
For those who can't afford free speech - Thu 5:08 p.m. - 11 clicks
Over the last few weeks, Ron Wyden has taken swings through Eastern and Southern Oregon to highlight the work he is doing to help our state's rural and coastal communities get back on their feet. In visits to Hood River, Pendleton, La Grande, and Baker City, Wyden touted his work to create jobs and fight for rural Eastern Oregon. And, on Oregon's coasts over the last few weeks, Wyden has bee...
Ron Wyden for U.S. Senate - Thu 4:22 p.m. - 16 clicks
by Sean Cruz Portland, Oregon--I loved the sound of my children's voices so much that I saved the messages that they left for me on my answering machine. About a year and a half after my kids left these messages, they disappeared into Utah. This is the first part in a series of movies I am producing to document the lives of my children before their abduction. I'm limited to the photos, videos a...
Blogolitical Sean - Thu 1:43 p.m. - 12 clicks
Help Grow Oregon’s Businesses Oregon’s small and mid-sized businesses need access to capital to grow. While much of this problem is due to the tight credit market nationally and globally, Oregon should review its collateralization requirements to help community banks start lending again. By doing this, more community banks can consider participating in the Oregon Treasury’s Timed Certificates...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - Thu 10:29 a.m. - 10 clicks
Start Date: Wed, 2010/09/01 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm Benton County Fairgrounds, Guerber Hall, 110 SW 53rd St., Corvallis What kind of help do you or your neighbor need to select the right health insurance plan for you? Could an insurance exchange help you ? Is it important to you and your family to have the CHOICE ...
Benton County Democrats - Aug 26 - 17 clicks
An Oregonian editorial "Choosing online schools" goes part way in getting it right on virtual schools (here, 8/26/10): It is, of course, essential that Oregon ensure the rigor and quality of online charter schools and demand financial and academic transparency......
Global Strategies - Aug 26 - 14 clicks
The Independent Party of Oregon has released the results of the second of a two-part survey of its members that the party will use to shape its 2010 campaign and its 2011 legislative agenda. CLICK HERE TO VIEW RESULTS The 400 members who participated were asked to select from a list of choices on issues, including balancing the state budget, strengthening the economy, good government iss...
Independent Party of Oregon - Aug 26 - 15 clicks
We did go to the beach today. Actually two of them as Long Beach in Washington was socked in by fog and a brisk, cold breeze. I was the only one to get out of the car there to go stand at the edge of the surf and take pictures. The pic heading this post was taken at Sunset Beach on the Oregon side, near Warrington and Astoria. My sister drove Mom, me, Jamie and our niece. Got back to Lon...
JoyStory - Aug 26 - 11 clicks
Call me old-fashioned, but even though I enjoy Stephen Colbert's humorous take on truthiness, it still seems to me that social policy debates go better when people on both sides of an issue respect the facts. Such as: Oregon isn't......
Hines Sight - Aug 25 - 18 clicks
Oregon Fish and Wildlife is giving us our first look at the newest members of the state’s growing wolf population. The three photos, released late Wednesday afternoon, show the two pups born this year to the Wenaha wolf pack in Northeast Oregon. ODFW captured, weighed and measured, then released the pups last Friday. As far as anyone knows, these are the first two pups born in the Wenaha pac...
Natural Oregon - Aug 25 - 13 clicks
We will connect Oregonians seeking work to the education and training needed to qualify for immediate job opportunities. High demand occupations like healthcare workers, technicians, and welders and new occupations like wind power and other clean technology technical jobs offer obvious targets for new or redirected training investments and help to attract new economic investment to Oregon. Th...
John Kitzhaber for Governor - Aug 25 - 9 clicks
Tom Friedman says that I'm part of a movement. I'm trying to reform public education in Oregon. Friedman's NY Times op-ed "Steal this movie, too" (here) says: that there is a movement stirring in this country around education. From the......
Global Strategies - Aug 25 - 6 clicks
Start Date: Thu, 2010/09/09 - 7:00pm Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis Please join State Representative Sara Gelser and a special guest to discuss the outlook for the state budget in 2011-2013 and to explore how to build the best possible budget for our state with limited resourc...
Benton County Democrats - Aug 25 - 10 clicks
Start Date: Tue, 2010/09/28 - 7:00pm Corvallis Benton County Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis read more ...
Benton County Democrats - Aug 25 - 11 clicks
Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a fire at the Portland Street of Dreams on Monday, August 23, 2010 at approximately 7:47 pm. Upon arrival, responding crews found that a deck area surrounding a fire pit at 8317......
Commissioner Randy Leonard - Aug 24 - 7 clicks
ODFW just released this photo showing the alpha male of the Imnaha pack in Wallowa County. The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago as he and the alpha female stepped in front of a trail camera. If you’ve been following the wolf news this summer, you’ll remember that his radio collar stopped transmitting in late May. He went missing just as the controversy over wolf attacks on livest...
Natural Oregon - Aug 24 - 7 clicks
