The job of Multnomah County circuit court judge must not be too bad, considering how many lawyers are jockeying for open seats on that bench. No clients to answer to, no timesheets, things never get more complicated than you let them get, and everybody obeys your orders. It sounds like being a law professor, only
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Points off
I wrote yesterday with my picks for the Multnomah County circuit court judgeships up for grabs in the election now under way, and one of my choices was Laura Rowan, currently an attorney in the state Justice Department.Then the mailman dropped off Rowan’s election porn, and it contained a few passages that gave me pause.
Bench players
No, no, and no.The ballots arrive today, and I’m noticing that there are four local trial court judgeships being contested here in Multnomah County. That’s more than usual, I think. And aside from all the competition, the races are especially important given the awful state of the criminal justice and mental health “systems” in Portland
Fur Creature
Lola, a grey medium-hair dilute tortoise-shell cat, left this world earlier this week. She was a few months shy of 19 years old, and her health had been declining for several months.She had come to us from the county animal shelter when she was about three months old. The shelter workers were calling her Mopsy,
He's at it again
You-Know-Who is doing you-know-what.
It’s all he knows how to do. Not that he ever gets any answers.
“When are u leaving an where u staying"
When your tawdry scandals move from the New York Post to the New York Times, you know they’re going to stick like glue. So it went last week with the ongoing soap opera known as Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the ex-Happy Valley mayor who’s currently the United States Secretary of Labor. Before last week’s revelations, we
Cheap shots ahead
From Sports Illustrated comes a disturbing story: The new owner of the Trail Blazers, Tom Dundon, is already pinching pennies on employee travel.
On Tuesday afternoon, a strange scene played out at the Trail Blazers’ Phoenix-area hotel. Onlookers noted people in Blazers gear hanging out in the lobby. According to four sources with knowledge
Gettin' it done
Sharpe goes upstairs for two, assisted by Avdija.It’s been four long and dismal years, but the Trail Blazers are in the NBA playoffs. They won their “play-in” game in Phoenix last night and will now face the San Antonio Spurs in the first round. The first game of the series is on Sunday evening.The Blazers
Crickets on Amazon "sweatshop" death
This week’s revelations on the website The Western Edge, about employees being urged to work around, and not help, a dying fellow worker at the Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, is apparently being ignored by the Portland media. It’s been a couple of days since the incident was publicized, and as far as I can
Crunch time
You have to poke around to see it, but my former Congressman, Earl “the Pearl” Blumenauer, reportedly ran a red light and collided with another car out at 102nd and Weidler, near Gateway, last Memorial Day weekend. The other driver, Ricky Krecklow, wound up in the hospital. Krecklow sued Blumenauer, and the case has