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VOTER GUIDE PAMPHLET ADDRESSED TO ‘RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER’

May 19, 2020 by

Who is the voter guide in your house, your apartment, your room, your shelter? When you open that ballot and it all looks like a mess, whose advice do you seek? I’ve got Malcolm Gladwell in my corner, his book Talking To Strangers under my ballot while I grind in another hard ink spot. It’s […]

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GOVERNMENT GOALS: TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE

August 12, 2019 by

Does it take a movie star, or blogger, to help get out the vote? Probably not, but it can’t hurt either, especially when the voter numbers look so sketchy. If the question is why vote, I know the answer.

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Carrying America’s Dirty Laundry, Vote Nov. 6, 2018

November 5, 2018 by

    Baby Boomers and Millennials get accused of so many things. Lazy parents produced entitled kids? You’ve heard that one? Millennials are too self absorbed to vote on Nov. 6, 2018? That’s been going around, too. The good news is not all Boomers are lousy parents and not all Millennials are spoiled little shits. […]

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Chain Of Command From The Bottom Up Point Of View

July 17, 2018 by

After you’ve lived in a chain of command culture the picture clears up. It’s not about being over-burdened, neglected, or picked on.   It is about preparing to be a better link in the chain. Not exactly another brick in the wall, a chain is more active.   Or it’s preparation to leave the chain […]

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PORTLAND CROSSROADS CULTURE BETWEEN SCIENCE, AGE, AND ATTITUDE

April 30, 2018 by

    All towers growing around Portland have at least one thing in common: At one precise moment they could either be a building going up, or on the way down. Like bomb exploded landscapes resemble a controlled demolition after the dust settles, a first glance can be so misleading.   Click the link to […]

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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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WHO CRIES MOST? NON-VOTER

October 20, 2016 by

Non-voters need change, will do anything for change. Anything, they say. Except vote. Every excuse is a good excuse to not vote, just don’t say the dog ate your ballet. Instead, use these tried and true non-voter lines: I got my registration in late. I moved. I thought my driver’s license was enough. Or,

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