edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
By John Ballard
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THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- "Nuclear war must be the most carefully avoided topic of general significance in the contemporary world. People are not curious about the details. … almost everyone seems to feel adequately informed by reading one book about nuclear war." -- Paul Brians, chronicler of nuclear imagery in [...]
by Dennis Westlind
Stoel Rives LLP, Attorneys at Law
Most of us assume that if an employee swears at a manager or, he or she can be disciplined or even fired. That assumption may be wrong, depending on the context in which the swearing occurs. A [...]
NW Business Litigation Blog
Ater Wynne
Oregon Attorneys at Law
Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals addressed a First Amendment issue that had been untouched by both the United States Supreme Court and the Oregon courts. In Tubra v. The International Church of the Foursquare [...]
Oregon Farm Bureau
Legislative Bulletin
It is the end of the first week of Oregon’s second test for regular annual sessions. The number of bills and their controversial nature is a departure from the tightly controlled nature of the 2008 special session. It would be [...]
The Legislature has just completed week one of its “Special Emergency Session.” 
Women and Heart Disease: Equal but Not the Same—Similar Risks, Subtler Symptoms, in a Heartbeat
Olivia C. Rossi, RN, MSN, ACSM
Your Personal Trainer:
It is the most important muscle in your body–your heart, silently working around the clock, beat-by-beat, tick-by-tock, until it stops.
“Heart disease is [...]
Last week, congressional candidates - incumbents and challengers - reported on their campaign finances through the end of 2009. It's a useful snapshot of where those races stand. Which candidates are rolling along - and which ones are struggling?
First, the easy ones. Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Congressman Greg Walden have [...]
Two recent stories (via Planetizen: here and here) make the connection between health and how we design our urban environments and transportation systems:
Five New York City departments have jointly released a document titled "Active Design Guidelines: A new definition for sustainable cities", covering everything from Urban Design [...]
The official election results are not even available yet, but pollster Adam Davis and the Oregon Business Council’s economic advisor John Tapogna are already attempting to rewrite the history surrounding this momentous election.
In an op-ed in The Sunday Oregonian, they write
As a tax analyst and pollster, respectively, we saw [...]A number of news snippets have come across the transom in the last week that warrant mention here at the big Blue O, and they're brought to us it seems by the letter "e".
Two are endorsements, both going to Oregon Democratic Gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber. The first (and quite belated' [...]
By Dave Anderson:
As everyone already knows, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA-12) died this afternoon. I was not a big fan of him as he was a self-dealer who at the very least was hanging out with people who reeked of corruption if not corrupt in a potentially legal manner himself. [...]
Shortly before a guy I knew died of pancreatic cancer, he mentioned that what he thought had done him in was his habit of having coffee and doughnuts every morning. It looks as though he may have been half right. Coffee wasn't the problem. Unless, of course, he added' [...]
When even The Oregonian editors start to notice a problem, it's really late in the game. At that point, it isn't a problem, but a full-blown disaster. As a general rule, The Oregonian strives to report no news. Their history is long and proud: they sat on the Bob Packwood' [...]
It's likely that the Audi commercial in yesterday's Superbowl lineup was filmed here. Portland banned styrofoam cups years ago, and we're well on our way to the situation depicted in the ad. Will it sell more Audis? Depends. Wait - hasn't Portland already banned them disposable "undergarments"?
Hmm...looking through the regs, [...]
As part of their frantic bid to cut the deficit spending, the Bama is proposing the creation of yet another agency - this one dedicated to Climate Change. Yup, that'll bring the spending down.
I guess he's just what I needed
I needed someone to feed
I guess I'm just what he needed
He needed someone [...]
Dear everyone who stopped caring,
Remember how much we’ve been reading about Pacifica Forum for the last month (partly my fault)? I have a pop quiz for you, just to see if you were paying attention.
QUESTION:
PACIFICA FORUM IS…:
A) A Neo-Nazi Group
B) Responsible for vandalizing LGBTQA
C) A [...]
This year, when you do your 2009 taxes, there's another opportunity to do something small to help combat the power of big money in our politics.
We political junkies call it the "Check for Democracy" or the "Klonoski check-off" (in honor of UO prof and former DPO chair Jim' [...]
Jane Lubchenco, formerly an OSU oceanographer who was an early imbiber of "man-made" global warming kool-aide, was tapped by Obama to head NOAA - this is eerily similar to Jimmuh Cahtah tapping Oregon pedophile Neil Goldshmidt to head the Department of Transportation, as both Neil and Jane have similar mindsets [...]
A new poll released today by Moore Information shows that Democrats who voted for House Bill 3508 in the 2009 legislative session are in serious trouble. According to the poll, 61% of those asked...
New poll says Oregonians opposed to earned time extensionThe ASUO slogan contest will be ending tonight, so be sure to post your entries into the comments section of that blog post. We will announce the winner either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
[...]The legislature is working under a tight timeline to complete important business during a month-long special session. The economy and what’s been happening to Oregon’s workers are rightly taking center stage.
The House and Senate revenue committees will see lots of action, as we all know that those committees – [...]
Today the Iranian supreme leader made a pretty audacious statement about how Iran was going to "punch" Western Civilization in the mouth on February 11th.
"The Iranian nation, with its unity and...
tweetmeme_url = 'http://siliconflorist.com/2010/02/08/startup-weekend-portland-march-5-7-2010/'; tweetmeme_source = 'siliconflorist'; If there’s one thing people in Portland love to do, it’s muck with technology. Sometimes, that mucking results in something interesting. Sometimes, that something interesting has enough potential that it could become a full-fledged company. But then there’s difficult transitional period. How do you find co-founders? [...]
CITIZENS FILE SUIT AGAINST THREE LANE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR VIOLATING OREGON’S PUBLIC MEETING LAWS 
As Bette Davis said when Joan Crawford died: "My mother told me never to say anything bad about the dead. So I say: 'Good!'On Saturday, June 5, at the Alice Awards & Auction, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance will honor people who have made a contribution to bicycling in communities around Oregon.
Has an individual, business, government agency or community group you know provided inspiration to cyclists, made biking safer or easier, or helped [...]
What a thrilling Super Bowl last night. The onside kick. Brees with 32 completions. And Sean Payton making some of the gutsier calls seen in a Super Bowl.
How much fun do you think New Orleans had last night?
It was a win larger than football, and anyone who's spent any time in the' [...]
“Back up in yo ass with the resurrection”
There was a particularly ridiculous letter to the editor in last Wednesday’s Emerald, one in which the author of the letter, Curtis Taylor, made the claim that, “[Obama has] signed into law more repeals of good gun policies [...]
Flyers distributed by the Oregon Student Association (OSA) to students on university campuses contained incorrect information about Oregon ballot Measures 66 and 67.
Here's an interesting one -- the grooming code for uniformed Portland firefighters. "Cosmetics, if worn, must be conservative and in good taste." Who gets to enforce that one -- the commissioner-in-charge? [...] They have not played nice in the sand box from the beginning. Early on they would cancel and delay negotiations regularly. About November, we were very close to a settlement and out of the blue, they switched negotiators, essentially starting the entire process over.
At one point Superintendent Carole Smith [...]
Frankly, I don't know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but [...]
By Steve Hynd
Aaaaaargh. Is it too much to ask war hypers like George Jahn of Associated Press to at least inform their readers of the basics. His first two graphs today read like a 2002 scary story on Iraq's WMD programs. Under the headline "Iran moves closer to nuke" [...]
This flier was put in all the student programs’ mailboxes at the end of last week. Indeed, I’m sure some of you may have seen a girl in a big vagina costume walking around campus (someone saw it and told me they initially thought it was [...]
Korean War Memorial, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010,Commentary By Ron Beasley
As I noted here it's economics that bring an end to empires not military defeats. In Wars Sending US into Ruin Eric Margolis supplies some details.
More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into' [...]
The Portland Public Schools board of education is set to approve a contract with the U.S. military to take $320,000 in exchange for access to elementary school children.
The Starbase program, funded from the US Department of Defense recruiting budget, has been raising parent hackles since at least 2006. It [...]
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