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PORTLAND PROTEST SCORECARD FOR THOSE PLAYING AT HOME

July 23, 2020 by

Portland Mayor Image via boing boing Portland protest review: Last night Portland mayor Ted Wheeler hit the streets. How did it go? He got heckled and gassed for his effort. In short, it didn’t go well. What the hell, Portland, if the mayor joins in, where’s the welcome mat? Would past mayors fare as well […]

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OREGON VOTER REMORSE HISTORY

November 2, 2016 by

Regrets? Oregon voter has had a few. American elections seem to have the same choices: Bad and Worse. Pick one and you wish you’d picked the other. Like early pioneers’ choice of floating the Columbia River rapids, or traversing the Barlow Road, once you take one you wish you were on the other. The 2016 […]

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NEIL GOLDSCHMIDT HISTORY CLUB

November 4, 2015 by

From Salem To An Unknown Location, Neil Goldschmidt’s Long Strange Trip. The first thing you learn about the History Club is you never talk about it. Replace History Club with museum storage and you still don’t talk about it. Those were rules broken only if you wanted to be an ex-employee of the Oregon Historical […]

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NIGEL JAQUISS: KING BREAKER

April 16, 2015 by

You’re A Big Deal? Got A Few Cracks? Nigel Jaquiss Knows.   Nigel who? I’ll say it so you don’t have to. Nigel Jaquiss. Writes for Willamette Week. (Will-aa-met.) Either he’s got it going or his first name does. Google Nigel, only Nigel, and he shows up #2 behind Nigel Hayes. Nigel who? Nigel Hayes […]

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IS THIRTY YEARS TOO LATE? IS SIXTEEN?

November 18, 2014 by

From Local To National, Send The Word: NO Two stories need broader exposure, a specialty for BoomerPDX. One comes from a local sports columnist, the other from every media outlet worthy of the name. The Oregonian’s John Canzano wrote about a forgotten woman from an a Corvallis assault. Why forgotten? No charges, no crime. Part […]

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JOHN KITZHABER: OREGON BABY BOOMER GOVERNOR

October 23, 2014 by

Boomerpdx is a non-affilliated blog giving a baby boomer perspective to Portland, Oregon, and beyond. If it had a mission statement it would read like the Bible: Treat others as you would like to be treated. No one goes wrong with the Golden Rule. From a political point of view, especially in an election year, […]

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