“Officials also advise not harassing the crows as they have long memories, hold grudges, and seem to know they have legal protection.”
I know their lawyer
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Red dirt alert
João upon eliminating Djokovic.They’re playing the big-time tennis on the clay courts of gay Paree, and the first half of this year’s French Open tournament has been more than a wee bit interesting, particularly in the men’s singles. With 16 men left standing, only five were seeded in the top 16 to start the event.
The patient is crashing
It’s hard to believe that you can’t make money in the insurance business – it’s like saying your casino isn’t profitable – but apparently that’s the case with the Providence health care organization, which is ending its medical insurance plans at the end of the year. This leaves about 420,000 Oregonians looking for other options. For
The tax increases will continue until morale improves
Of all the hideous local taxes scaring businesses and normies away from Portland, the city’s ludicrous head tax “for the arts” is the most outrageous. It’s $35 a year per person, unless the person is living on less than $1,000 a year or in a household with income below the federal policy level. It is
Summing it up
I’ve been plowing through Raymond Lee’s expense reports from his days as city manager in Greeley, Colorado – he’s the city manager of Portland now – and wow, did he ever chow down on the taxpayers’ dime over there. Countless “business meetings” at steakhouses and other eateries. Lots of bacon and filet mignon were enjoyed.
Steve Griffith
1977My dear friend Steve Griffith died on February 12 in a climbing accident on Chimborazo, a 20,500-foot mountain in Ecuador. He was 80 years old.The story briefly made the news in Portland, as Steve was a public figure in town. He had been on the school board, even chaired it for a while. He ran
The bees are happy
A bumper crop, about 10 days early.
They will stop at nothing
It’s the most preposterous stunt yet, and the most dangerous. The President of the United States sues the Internal Revenue Service for supposed damage caused by someone seeing his tax returns, which all of his recent predecessors have willingly allowed the public to inspect. Then the President’s stooges, the Attorney General, the Treasury Secretary, and
Ink on paper
This weekend I received a remarkable surprise gift. It is a book, created by my daughter, of photos I took in the early 2000s, along with selected posts from the original iteration of this blog, some of which date back to July 2002. That was a fun era in so many ways. Here on the
Polls take their toll
The O found some money in the sofa cushions recently for some polls of Portlanders, or at least one poll on numerous subjects. Today we learn that public sentiment is clearly against using the city’s goofy “green” sales tax money to improve the perfectly good Trail Blazer palace. Yesterday I think it was, we learned