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Comfort and your respect for it aside, using epidurals and medications during labor and birth introduces risks also. Setting up any option as one with "absolutely zero risk" is fallacy. This is the excellent thing about choice in our community, we get to evaluate and choose our risks relative to our personal values. (T...
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The republicans are livid Obama has shown no regard to the constitution, therefor they are justified in doing the same (sic). Their story immediately changes if the role were reversed, and therein what absolutely disgusts me of both party's today as their intellectual bankruptcy knows no shame. What the right wing pseu...
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This is certainly a topic which calls for commenters to identify at least whether they live in a single-family home and their immediate neighborhood context. As I've posted numerous times, I live in the old "Westside neighborhood in a 1929 house that was a trashed rental when I bought it. Our neighborhood was "red-li...
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The ignorance of Mueller is profound. High density planning has caused poverty, homelessness to explode, and yet this ignorant clown claims "“deprives moderate income people of the security and wealth-building benefits of owning a home.” All too true. But is that really what is primarily happening here in Eugene? I thi...
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Here is what the district is saying: "other 30 kids in the classroom, we don't care about YOU. The kid who has the outbursts and the many others who simply won't keep their mouths shut and who do little more than undermine learning for everyone take priority over all of you." People wonder why the schools are so bad...
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well who gets the tiny houses ....is there a wate list.....i have been homeless ...and in prison and jail for over 20 years
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Sorry Wilcox. Facts are facts. "LA is the densest" metropolitan area, no matter how you want to spin it.
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The public record documents our legislators only concern with "sprawl" is not collecting enough property taxes per acre to fund government. The premise we are losing farmland is ridiculously absurd. Since 1936 America has taken 86,000,000 acres out of farm production because we continue to grow a glut of agriculture on...
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I'm an aging baby boomer and I like a home with a yard and want nothing to do with a condo or apartment, nor do I care to be elbow to elbow with my fellow man no matter how precious they may be. Arms length is best for me. Don't presume to speak for what other's want based on an assumption of generalizations.
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That's because of the Salem legislators who pushed through high density planning statewide in 1986. What blows my mind is the republicans in rural counties went along with this, when had they not adopted high density planning all the jobs and growth would have gone to rural counties that need it the most.
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The laws read "least restrictive appropriate educational placement". This doesn not mean persistent disruptive behavior must be tolerated. It does mean a district must have a "cascade" of services available and place a student in the "least restrictive" one. It may mean a "special" class for disruptive, dysfunctiona...
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yes it is. Liberals have declared war on the poor, and have chained the poor to poverty, as this is the only growth liberal no growth advocates can actually stop.
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Are you advocating that every block in Eugene needs to be kid friendly? I can agree that apartments and condos do attract more retired people and young single working people, but that is not a reason to ban them. Is it your vision to cover Willamette Valley farmland with houses rather than to have buildings in Eugene ...
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"We used to have a strong middle class through affordable housing until liberal dementia, a social disease void of intelligence outlawed this housing." Well said. Eugene liberals are giving liberalism a bad name. They need to adopt a new term for their political view that better reflects their "sob sister bleeding hea...
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I do not believe any were sucker punched but I just know what I read in the papers, most of which are much more favorable to Hillary than Trump. As far as Sanders being weak when he handed over the microphone, it depends on how he handed it over. If it was clear, he was in control, then it was not a action of weakne...
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Trump likes to throw his weight around. Given his attitude towards people who disagree with him, he would only have advisers who agree with him. He has a habit of speaking without thinking, and making shocking comments to get a reaction. That is a bad trait in a leader and could have far-reaching consequences. We d...
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Gas has jumped up at my station ¢30 in the last month, looking forward to voting no.
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Exactly! Old school liberals built affordable entry level housing to address poverty. Old school liberals are the ones who called for welfare reform.
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I do live in single-family home and still relatively low density area in N. Eugene. I have elbow room and a yard with space to grow blueberries and plants that attract bees, birds and bats. I enjoy watching the birds take from the feeders and reward me with their wonderful songs, and it amuses me to watch squirrels run...
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They will not collect even 80% of the money they project to collect. People will buy their gas outside of Portland more. Gas stations in Portland will lose revenue. People will buy less gas and less non-gas items. Those non-gas items are typically higher gross margin. It is likely that some jobs will be lost. Peopl...
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I give you that one based on your definition. But as your article says: "Part of the answer lies in the vagaries of Census geography. Sprawl is a regional attribute, so when observers point out that LA is denser than New York, they are not talking about the cities of Los Angeles and New York...The LA region’s combinat...
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Call them what you will - care facilities, nursing homes, hell for old folks. They are For Profit organizations trying to make money doing what family can't or won't do. I can't help but wonder how often Diane visited her father and if there were symptoms early on that she might have noticed. Call me Jaded.....
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Mueller's arguments are either valid or not. His motivations are another matter. That is what Pilot is focusing on., ie, "very questionable LTD."
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If he could start with $1 million and turn it into even $1 billion, he would be doing better than all our last few Presidents, whose main purpose has been to spend on their fat cat buddies interests or on wars....or both.
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Nay. Victims of last in, first out mentality found in companies that use BPOs. Instead of evaluating performance across multiple BPOs that the contracting company might use, I'd surmise that Firstsource was the last hired company. Instead of ditching an underperforming center, they ditch the least tenured center. Cons...
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My (much) better half has been a 8th grade special educator for many years. She has to deal with outbursts on a daily schedule. About the only thing they can be sent home for is a major infraction that would get any student sent home. When it come to special needs students the educators definitely have to put up wit...
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See. There's that NIMBY attitude that just because you worked hard to build it you don't want to play nice and give it away when your 'betters' know the "the greater good needs to be held paramount".
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Ah me ... I've actually written a proposal, enthusiastically adopted by the Jefferson Westside Neighbors, for a (big mouthful) multi-generational, family-friendly, mixed-density (but averaging "high") housing project on the old Naval Reserve site on W. 13th Ave., across 14th from Caesar Chavez Elementary. Shot down by ...
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You make a good point: 'All schools should be equal in scope and funding'. There may be those who access charter schools in the hope of avoiding racial diversity. Most charter schools are an extension of the district they are part of and must abide by the rules, ie approved curriculum, inclusion of all type of student...
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I also believe that people that get hit at Trump rallies bear a certain amount of responsibility for getting hit. They are purposefully putting themselves in that situation. Not they should be getting hit, but that they put themselves in that situation. People bear a certain amount of responsibility for everythi...
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The point is to base opinions on facts. I don't argue whether or not L.A. is good or bad. But it's a darn good example that "density versus sprawl" is a stupid "principle" to follow. LA proves you can have both, and I believe Eugene could have neither -- but only if the true believers will stop spouting bumper-sticker ...
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Great work! Keep writing. Keep covering tough topics.
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His anti-LTD bias, as well as my own, is obvious to anyone who has ever posted here for more than a month. Whatever his name might be. Your comment is still a character attack.
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If I were a city planner, I'd say your behavior is bordering on criminal. Watching squirrels run after corn cobs ... sounds perverted. ;-)
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If you read the latest letter posted on the OLive site which the R-G gave a link to, the State is implying that school districts are not using that test. It may be just a knee jerk reaction to the 2015 legislation to show that they noticed the law, but it certainly isn't going to provided any help in assisting your be...
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Can we get a similar article on the Dave Matthews Band, please?
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#SpreadtheBern Get out the vote! Phone bank. Canvass. Volunteer. Donate. And, most importantly VOTE!
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Like everything else related to education, Oregon manages to do a terrible job with the charter school program. Charter schools have proven to be very effective in other states. Perhaps the problem is that the special interest groups(like the teacher's unions) that dominate Oregon's legislative process don't want them ...
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That "little ol' suburb" has recently exploded in population, mainly driven by suburban sprawl. Vancouver 1990 population: 46,380 2014 population: 169,294 Clark County, WA 1990 population: 238,053 2014 population: 451,008 Ignoring its membership in the Portland metro area, Vancouver and Clark County form the th...
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Bernie Sanders is the only honest candidate. He has supported the people and the principles of equality his entire career and I hope everyone votes for him. We need him in this country. I am not going to ask him to step down and I will never give the DNC another penny. We need reform and we need a country that believ...
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I found this article on reddit. Ya, we need a gas tax. Truth be told, we probably need one that is a lot higher than 10 cents a gallon. How else are we gonna push people out of gas guzzlers?
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Oregon played well enough to win, but this was not a good game for the Ducks. Too many missed shots, and were out-rebounded by a smaller team. Duke, will be a good match-up for Oregon, and Duke has not played good defense and the Ducks love to run. I expect this game to be decided at the free throw line, with the Ducks...
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Scary for us all, corruption and power mixed to long leads to rebellion against what is rightfully called tyranny!
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I am so encouraged by Obama's Cuba Initiatives. He has shown that there is a time to put down the big stick and engage on a human level. We'll make more progress with democratizing Cuba in the next five years than we did in the last 50.
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This is my new nickname for Ms. Acker: Cheap Chuckles And BTW, FWW: experienced journalists know that everything they write will be openly criticized by dimwits every day. Every. Day.
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I imagine many of the Portlanders scoffing at Morrison’s assertion that cell phones cause cancer, also think that vaccines, fluoride, and GMOs cause cancer, “Despite a lack of scientific evidence to support that claim.”
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There are 1.9 Million people employed in Oregon currently, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. So this number means that this problem affects over half of the state's workers.
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Some charter schools in other states have proven to be very effective, while at least as many have proven to be very bad. Since you single out teacher's unions as the problem, you show you're idelogically driven to cherry pick your data in order to come to your conclusions.
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The average now is $2.089. This time last year, it was $2.871. The year before that, it was $3.519. An objective observer might wonder just how cheap gas would have to be before you'd support requiring drivers to shoulder more of the burden to pay for roads (right now, gas tax covers about half the cost).
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I want to agree with you on most of this Out. I am also tired of the media simply passing on unexamined campaign rhetoric far too often. I don't doubt that investigative journalism lives in the hearts of some, but corporate media, which has always been present, is far more an ally of the major parties, than a noble ...
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"THE FREE-LOADING BICYCLE CROWD WHO DEMAND TO USE THE ROADS THEY PAY NOTHING FOR" If the bicyclist is a taxpayer, they pay for roads. Motorists only cover half the cost through gas tax. Yes, bicyclists pay less ... but they use less.
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Tell me, which data did I "cherry-pick?" I didn't cite any data at all. Since you post such a non-factual comment to undermine my own you show that you are ideologically driven to defend teacher's unions. Oregon schools are some of the worst in the entire country, yet we spend more per student than many states with m...
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Slow news day? This is a non-story.
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The article is only surprising in that I thought Will's partisanship was the equal of his ideology. I may have got that wrong. Will is showing he will not blindly accept anybody with a Republican label. He even recognizes the compromise that Pres. Obama built into this nomination. When both side squawk that Garl...
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I it's nice to see our tax dollars (and the justice system) actually working.
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This restaurant's twitter account is a little problematic too... https://twitter.com/crimesofbrits?lang=en
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It's clear that the accusation of 'judicial activism' only get's pulled out when the Court acts contrary to one own personal judgement. We can start by simply saying that the founders could not in any way, have imagined a country/society/culture/world environment that we have today. They were fresh and insightfu...
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And they say Obama doesn't help small business... Wha wha whaaaa
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Why should we be trying to democratizing any more country's? Open up trade and tourism fine, but stay far far away from any more nation building projects
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Thanks to Obama for making this trip. Better to win Cuba over economically than to make their people suffer.
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Brought to you by The State of Oregon, who brought us PERS and Cover Oregon; what could possibly go wrong, go wrong, go wrong....
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So your entire letter consists of your opinions.
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So the state is going to force people to pay in to a retirement with no say in the matter? And then somewhere down the road shift those funds into the general budget like the Feds did with social security, maybe to use the funds to bail out PERS. Another state run "retirement fund" that hasn't exactly done well. What...
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Actually the real article is pretty interesting, about is a "hey look at this other article; but it's about Reed so there you go." The article is interesting and I am all for each their own; but there is some naivete (she is only 21). I wish her and the others good luck, can't imagine it is an easy business.
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Tell you what, let's make it fair... how about bicyclists agree to pay for their fair share of the proportional total costs to; plan, construct, & maintain the marked & unmarked bike-lanes/paths of travel, signage, $5,000 per green-box x 4 per intersection $20,000, a percentage of sidewalk construction/maintenance, a v...
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I didn't say you posted data, but that you cherry pick data to come to your conclusions. Perhaps you learned reading comprehension in a charter school? In terms of explaining and blaming, most studies show parental involvement as a major factor, and socio/economic status as another.
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Worth noting that the Oregon constitution restricts gas tax revenue to only be spent on roads. One of the reasons this is the best way to raise funds.
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So would you support a revenue mechanism that did raise $200 million a year?
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Yep. NIMBY indeed and you can take it to the bank.
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Haha...indeed. Sometimes I even pee in my own back yard, behind the bushes.
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So the major accomplishment of this trip was that it got the dictator Castro to give a news conference? What a joke that is. And Castro was not even forthcoming in providing any answers, and ended the conference after only a handful of questions? Hilarious. Here we have lifted the travel ban and are now allowing ...
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Based upon your logic, it's OK to sucker punch a protester because they "put themselves in that situation". Mmm, then you go on to say, "Not they should be getting hit, but that they put themselves in that situation." That is so Donald Trump, blaming the victims of the violence he foments. "You're learning well young...
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“every $1 we invest in advertising generates $237 in visitor spending.” So let's invest a couple billion dollars or so and solve all our budget problems!
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If you read my comment correctly, I do not say it is okay to sucker punch anybody. I just say that both bear some responsibility for it happening. Of course, the greater responsibility lies with the one doing the punching, but also, if you do not want to get punched, do not put yourself in that situation.
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wow you do live is a different universe...I'll take one thin book. What little I've read about the real TTP, not the fantasy inverse version, is the same issue with all "free" trade, we tend to be a country of laws. And Obamacare is the step in the right direction, if we can stop paying the vampires their trillion, w...
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Aaron: Vancouver is not a suburb. In fact, it is one of the largest cities in Washington and was founded 25 years before Portland. But you knew that already. What gives?
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My cousin worked for many years as a special education teacher in a small Oregon district. He finally left because he was, most of the time, the district's only qualified special-ed person. There was often no support or alternate ways to meet the needs of students. He was asked to do more than he could do. I also...
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He is NOT the best candidate to beat the Republicans. He will get smashed in the general with his tax rises and "socialism" buzzword.
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Lucy Vinis appears to be a decent person; and, although I support Clark, I hope folks don't trash talk her the way that Piercy's first campaign did in their slimy attacks on Nancy Nathanson. Here are some facts: 1. Vinis's experience is in fund raising. I have close friends who are "development directors" and they a...
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I hear you supporting free speech -if it matches your own opinion. You want to have your own harsh criticisms in the name of 'free speech', but you are quick to label dissent as evil in uncompromising terms, (like parasites) ====== It's hypocrisy that liberals have had to deal with as well. What do you do with a N...
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Those crazy backwards Washingtonians with standing in line to vote.
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This is particularly silly since the Palestinians themselves do not boycott Caterpillar. There are Caterpillar dealerships in both Ramallah and in Gaza. Why would Portland want to go down this road anyway?
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And once again, the "oh so special"want someone else to give up what they have worked for to help someone or some concept that the "oh so special" feel are or is deserving. Not that the "oh so special" should give up anything, but someone else should give up what they have worked for to satisfy the "oh so specials"...
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So you are implying that Oregon schools are such a catastrophe because of a lack of parental involvement or low socioeconomic status as compared to 49 other states that beat us in education achievement? And if your reading comprehension is so superior to mine, perhaps you would care to revisit my original comment. All...
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You need to distinguish between restricted and discretionary funds. Most of that "tremendous" budget is already earmarked and cannot be diverted. Of the city's general discretionary fund (around $515 million), PBOT only gets $10 million (1.9%). Moving $100 million/year to paving would require massive cuts elsewhere, gr...
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So what Bbbbbureau are you in down at city hall?
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It may come as a surprise to you, but many people live in this area because they don't want to live 'big city life'. That's why the choose to be here instead of New York City or Los Angeles or even the little town of Portland, Oregon. Trying to force them to emulate the 'big city' lifestyle is likely to be futile....
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I don't work for the city. I'm just promoting a fact-based discussion.
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Yes I am aware of the supposed restricted funding. Just call me a non-believer in the city that works.
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Ah well then thank you.
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Excepting some of the interesting nuanced issues that arise in surrogacy, (which would've been a worthwhile story without dragging people through the mud) this story is fit for the likes of a desperate gossip rag. How ignoble and lacking in taste to transpose private, sacrosanct decisions about parenthood to a cheap...
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This is the song I hear when I think about Oregon's influence on the Primary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A The Price is Wrong.
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Honestly, legalizing sex work has more benefits than downfalls. Taking power from pimps and giving it to the women and men doing the work. Giving workers a safer environment to work. Regulating health requirements, mandating checkups. Background checks. Taxing clients. Exploitation would decrease, rape and sex crimes i...
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Supposedly, HB 2960, which established this program provides that "(n) Provide that the State of Oregon and employers that participate in the plan have no proprietary interest in the contributions to or earnings on amounts contributed to accounts established under the plan." Of course, that is a Legislative Law; they ...
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I read your comment on its face value - you can't have it both ways. If I wanted a punch, I'd box. The violence is in the trump political arena where he openly encourages it. Until now, violence has been rare in American politics and claiming a protester bears responsibility for getting sucker punched, kicked,and spit ...
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At least they had enough common sense not to birth the child at OHSU. After what OHSU Foundation did to Jordan's father when he was in the hospital, it's a wonder why the Schnitzer's donated so much property and money to OHSU. OHSU Foundation leaders could not behave better when Schnitzer's family members and other V...
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Interesting that PBOT's budget is $325 million whereas PDC has a budget over $400 million for this year and next. What would happen if we laid off all the staffers and started getting all that TIF funding back on the tax rolls? CA got rid of its urban renewal projects, OR needs to take a look at the true cost to all...
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Actually Vancouver is the very definition of a suburb when defined by the Portland Metro Area or pretty much any other standard. Founding of the city time frame has nothing to do with it. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a suburb. Traditionally it has to the with what is the biggest city in the a...
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This looks like an article from 'The Onion'? Kind of silly, in content and as well as any goofy message it's trying to send.
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Just for grins.. You know the tune.... Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip, that started from some inner port, aboard this mighty ship. The pilot was a river mate, Still aboard, he was the best, The ship it did set sail that day, and started heading West, and started heading West. T...
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