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• A Treaty Lost
• Health Care for All
• The "utopian enslavement" is coming for you.
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• An open letter to the Oregonian and Ted Sickinger about PERS
• Social Security and the Myth of Longer Lives
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• Multnomah County to sue MERS over mortgage recording fee evasion
• Fixing the US Senate: Will Merkley get another shot at filibuster reform?
• The real reason that Clear Channel dumped KPOJ
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• AFL-CIO, DeFazio, and Multnomah Democrats endorse Save KPOJ campaign
• Save KPOJ: Over 5000 petition signers, and counting.
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• A Very Blue Oregon
• Am I My Brother's Keeper? Why pay for health care for the undeserving?
• Anatomy of A Portland Police Media Campaign
• Another Possible Lesson from Vietnam?
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• The Exit Poll Results You May Have Missed
• Paging PolitiFact: The astonishing falsehood at the center of Bruce Starr's campaign
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• The latest on the ballot tampering scandal in Clackamas County
• It ain't Mittens!
• Val Hoyle's Opponent and the Minimum Wage - Again
• Survey USA-Labor Commish: Starr pulls ahead
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• BREAKING: Ballot tampering in Clackamas County? Investigation underway.
• Our President and the lessons of Sandy
• HD-37: Caught with her hand in the cookie jar, Julie Parrish admits to dirty Koch cash
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• Pack of Wolves
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• Vote Yes on Measure 80
• HD-37: The unraveling of Julie Parrish
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• Slings and Arrows in the HD 52 Race
• Enough! We Can and Must Do Better...
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• Jefferson Smith: A flawed candidate, but a decent man working for the public good
• A Step (or two) to the Right: Betsy Close appointed to Frank Morse's seat
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• Smith, Hales, and the Costly, Risky CRC Mega-Highway Boondoggle
• We Must Not Forget, We Must Act
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• Does the Hales campaign's secret OLCV taping fit the character of Portland?
• Why We’re Challenging the Reserves Plan
• Elizabeth Warren at the DNC
• An Open Letter to Steve Novick: You Kant Be Serious.
• What happens to seniors under the Romney/Ryan plan for Medicare?
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• George Orwell, Meet the CRC
• OR House: Strip bars, GOP leadership & Matt Wingard.
• Parlor Tricks, Public Policy, and PERS
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• A Small Something We Could Do...
• Time to Act on the Climate Crisis
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• Today's Senate Victory for Dems & Anglo-Saxon Problems
• OR-House: Rainbows, Unicorns & Kevin Cameron.
• Charlotte Lehan says Thanks But No Thanks to the Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce
• The Real Reason for the CRC: Supporting Clark County's Exurban Sprawl
• Schrader: Stop funding the war in Afghanistan
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• The Oregon Estate Tax’s $2 Billion Loophole
• Irony, thy name is Romney
• Republicans successfully filibuster DISCLOSE Act, Democrats to vote again and again...
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• Despite calls from their own, GOP leaders fail to insist on Wingard resignation
• HD-30: Democrat Joe Gallegos to challenge GOPer Shawn Lindsay
• Spat inside the Oregon Republican Party
• The Next President - the Choice is Yours
• Breaking: Neighbors, Environmentalists Bring Lawsuit Against Costly, Risky CRC Mega-Project
• Sen. Edward M. Kennedy finally at Peace
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• Costly, Risky CRC Mega-Highway: Free Beer Tomorrow!
• Mayor Adams to TriMet: No, really, you're not giving up on youth passes.
• Initiatives Heading to the Ballot
• The slow demise of Matt Wingard
• An open letter to the DC Dem establishment
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• Waging a Winning Fight Against Wage Theft
• Wisconsin and Us
• What is good for students is good for Oregon universities. What is good for the OUS isn't always good for students.
• How Jeff Reardon beat Mike Schaufler (and why it matters)
• Pondering war, patriotism and fallen soldiers
• Jeff Scroggin headed for November general election
• Holvey: Schaufler is an embarrassment
• Big news! Alaska Airlines wins approval for daily nonstop from PDX to DCA
• The Difference on Development Fees
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• Standing up for progressive values and standing up for Dave Hunt
• Mayoral Race: Over Two Million Dollars, and Counting
• Health care system still in crisis, regardless of Supreme Court
• Kaboom. Kitzhaber comes home from DC with $1.9 billion for health care in Oregon.
• HD-48: The "Labor Candidate" Loses Labor’s Support
• Vote for Ellen Rosenblum for Attorney General
• Our Economy Can Afford Better Pay for All Workers
• Jeff Reardon: A video interview
• Jefferson Smith: Environmental Leadership with Results
• Dwight Holton is backtracking on marijuana. We don't believe him.
• Sharon Meieran: A Citizen Doctor for Oregon in Transition
• HD-48: Women throw down for Reardon against Mike Schaufler
• Standing out in the Crowd for the Right Reasons
• HD-48: Jeff Reardon picks up legislator endorsements in primary race against Mike Schaufler
• We got to get a bat to swing at Obama
• Is Mike Schaufler Losing Labor’s Support?
• The only response political bullies understand
• Ron Wyden fights for consumers & environment on Keystone XL
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• I'm Steve Novick and I'm running for Portland City Council
• As seen today at the Oregon Legislature
• Metro wants your opinion except when they don't.
• Oregon House Republicans could give a rip if you get screwed by big banks
• Rick Santorum: Not just a snob, but an arrogant, patronizing snob
• Rick Santorum is Un-American
• HD-48: Two top-tier candidates considering challenges to Mike Schaufler
• A call to arms for Barack Obama
• Why the rush to kill endangered wolves?
• The Year of Women Voters
• Soylent Grey is the CRC!
• Schaufler joins Republicans in blowing up the 30-30 House
• Senator Betsy Johnson joins Republicans in holding CCOs hostage to tort reform
• Turning Back the Clock
• Ladies and gentlemen... Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici!
• Shifting Stories on the Costly, Risky CRC
• Avakian re-ups for Labor Commissioner
• Republican pollster Bob Moore is alive and well, polling in fantasyland
• We Can't Clear-Cut Our Way to Prosperity
• OR-1: Election Night Open Thread - Bonamici Wins!
• AFSCME Local 189 Endorses Jefferson Smith and Mary Nolan
• PolitiFact: Well, here we go again
• BREAKING: All Democrats in Oregon congressional delegation now oppose SOPA/PIPA. (Paging Greg Walden...)
• Ron Wyden's "Dear Internet" Letter
• Willamette Weak: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Nigel J. Jaquiss
• Suzanne Bonamici Meets the Wayne Morse Test
• Gov. Gregoire: No Money for the Costly, Risky CRC
• Kitzhaber makes Rolling Stone's top 12 list of "leaders who get things done"
• OR-1 roundup: Debates, attack ads, endorsements, and the BS championship!
• The Tea Party is Losing Steam - Happy New Year!
• Farm-o-liciousnes
• Beaverton takes its turn to drive the Washington County mafia steamroller
• OR-1: New Poll: Bonamici WAY up
• Sellwood Bridge wins federal financing
• Elizabeth Steiner Hayward for SD 17
• Perspectives on Portland: Rudy Soto
• The 99% vs. the 1% in Eight Minutes
• OR-1: Rob Cornilles would take away a woman's right to choose
• An open letter on education reform to Ben Cannon
• Bonamici versus the Chameleon
• We can't wait for Wall Street or Washington DC to fix themselves. Here's what Oregon is doing.
• Ballsy: Kitzhaber stops all death penalty executions for his term in office
• Banking is Now a Political and Social Issue
• Behind the CRC Boondoggle: How We Got Here
• Cities and States Continue to Lead on Climate
• Comment by on The Mayoral Candidates and the Costly, Risky CRC
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• The Mayoral Candidates and the Costly, Risky CRC
• Avakian pitch captures urgency of the moment
• Portland, Jefferson Smith would like to be your mayor.
• In DC, Kitzhaber endorses American Jobs Act and talks health transformation
• OR-1: Thoughts on the Democratic primary
• OR-1: Brad Avakian: Long time leadership and a long list of ideas
• Across the Political Spectrum, Americans Agree: Act on the Climate Crisis
• Senator Merkley's jobs-scoring idea gains momentum
• As DC quarrels, Oregon should act.
• Labor Day
• In the bag for Tea
• Democrats Gather in Jacksonville
• Comment by on Paul Evans: Not your usual progressive tirade
• Paul Evans: Not your usual progressive tirade
• Time to Lead on the CRC – Yes, This Means You
• Democrats take Bend and Medford; fail to get wins in Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Pendleton, and Baker City
• Could Mark Hatfield start in Oregon politics today?
• Remembering Senator Mark O. Hatfield
• A News Summary of the Extremely Costly, Risky CRC
• Debt ceiling deal is a defeat -- what next?
• On candidates, policy and women.
• Comment by on CRC: A Toxic Mortgage, and a Half-Billion Dollar Hole
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• HB2301: Veto this bad bill & do online education right
• A progressive answer to the Tea Party
• Income Tax Expenditures and the Great State Budget Crunch
• Oregon’s Mushrooming Millionaires
• Comment of the day
• Farm-to-School: A Closer Look at HB 2800
• The good part of dying
• After bin Laden, the promise of a new age
• Sellwood Bridge: What Would Abe Do?
• Oregon More Than Doubles Its Venture Capital
• Will Lee Beyer, Chris Edwards, and Ginny Burdick Stand Up for Democratic Values Next Week?
• Why did the House approve this, exactly?
• OR-1: Everything old is new again
• Oregon, the Land of Id?
• Perspectives on Portland: Jeff Cogen
• Apologists for the plutocrats lay an egg
• Let's not forget why we got rid of the double majority requirement
• Criticism of CRC Highway Mega-Project Mounts
• Oregon's consumer health insurance exchange
• Today's no-brainer Yes vote, and the eight who voted No.
• K-12 Budget: Why I Voted 'Yes'
• K-12 Budget: Why I voted 'No'
• The Oregonian and the Luxury of the Quibble
• OR-1: Brad Avakian prepping to announce run against David Wu?
• With his big health care policy victory killed in the night, Wyden likely to vote against the budget deal
• Robert Kennedy in 1968
• "I Couldn't Get A Loan For My Small Business, As the Bank Determined I Had No Job"
• DeFazio says he'll "make the president act like a Democrat"
• On the CRC Mega-Project: Differing Visions, Shared Sense
• A Losing Equation
• Dear Oregon House GOPers: Please stop wasting time & resources with BS bills
• State treasury under attack by unwarranted campaign of innuendo
• Clatsop County Commissioner Dirk Rohne gets fed up with GOP, becomes a Democrat
• Sharing the cost of 9-1-1 services
• A lifeline to the American Dream
• An "Oregonian" in Vancouver's Perspective on the CRC Boondoggle
• The Costly Risks of Mega-projects like the Columbia River Crossing
• Rep. Clem's mother-in-law: "Hey Regence, I'm not dead."
• Some Points of Agreement on Tax Policy
• Resorts attempt to get around land use law by making payoffs
• Newsflash: Pub Owner Supports Ability to Shut Down Violent Bars
• God's will or human folly? Early lessons from Japan's nuclear disaster
• Oregon's young farmers: a new generation
• Wisconsin GOP jams through union-busting bill
• Remembering Ben Westlund
• On Unions, a Narrative Shattered
• Duyck and Hughes dish up a steaming, hot plate of suck
• Wyden steps up on the Patriot Act
• A formal complaint for deaf ears
• Are Oregon Business Execs too nice?
• A Day to Love Oregon
• SB 525 opt-in for phonebooks in Oregon
• A Tax Code Subsidy Gets Ways and Means Review: A Reality-Based Fiction
• Kitzhaber announces budget plan
• Caitlin Baggott takes the wheel at The Bus Project
• Comment by on Governor To Unveil Budget February 1st
• Kurt Schrader blows the whistle
• Filibuster reform day is here. Fireworks still in the forecast?
• Merkley on Citizens United (video)
• Time to Lead on Climate
• Leslie Lewis: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
• Quick Hits: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
• Clatsop County Withdraws Permit for Misguided LNG Project
• Bang bang - and a would-be hero turns into a victim, or worse.
• Smart Financing for Efficiency: Money on the Ground
• Own it, Tea party
• In one fell swoop, Kitzhaber names ten top advisors, including chief of staff Curtis Robinhold
• Yamhill County takes land use to a whole new (lower) level
• Thank You, Governor Kulongoski
• A cautionary tale on austerity budgeting
• Metro: Robert Liberty announces resignation; Bob Stacey expresses interest
• OR-GOP: Tiernan to step down as head of the Oregon Republican Party
• 2011: a Tea Party mandate?
• Rule of 31? Or the rule of 1?
• WaCo: One conservative's earmark is another's key road project
• Death panels and rope-a-dope
• Let's not forget our friends at TSA
• Growing Pains
• Dems Vote Privately to Reject Tax Cut Plan (updated)
• $5 to save the Sellwood Bridge
• Having given the GOP their "holy grail", Obama loses Oregon's four Democratic congressmen
• Own it
• Mom like me
• Wow. Lake Oswego went for Kitzhaber.
• Public Utilities Commission Bombs on Boardman Coal Plant Decision
• Merkley takes another strong, principled stand
• Finding a Smarter Vision
• A brief review of GOP navel gazing
• Bob Tiernan feasts on sour grapes
• Douglas and Klamath County Votes Deliver Race to Kitzhaber
• Oregon gets ready to take the lead again
• Three observations
• It's official: John Kitzhaber is Oregon's next Governor
• Quick Hits on Election Eve
• Turn off your computer
• Oregon's Spookiest Election Activity Goes National
• Mannix's signature gathering operation yields indictments
• In OR-5, inexplicable polling: Is Kurt Schrader down by 10? Or up by 12?
• Chris Dudley is a political dancer
• OR-5: Bruun says health reform "right up there" with slavery. Seriously.
• OR-GOV: Kitz pulls ahead in new Rasmussen poll
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Young Voter Engagement
• Moderates Still Overwhelmingly Favor Democrats
• Anti-war stirrings among Oregon officials, grassroots peace movement
• Dudley's Largest Donor Fined for Violating Clean Air and Water Standards
• Olbermann on Dudley: "That's a rich former athlete explaining how he's going to keep everybody else poor."
• Spanning the State: We have some work to do, Edition
• From Portland to Medford, Oregon Speaks Out Against Boardman Coal Plant Pollution
• Washington Initiative 1098 hits the bull’s eye
• Bruunschools
• Quick hits: 19 days to ballots edition
• Chris Dudley and the minimum wage "tip credit"
• Chris Dudley: No ideas, just platitudes written by lobbyists
• The Gathering of Eagles prepares to fly off a cliff
• OR-Gov: Dudley's story begins to unravel
• Kitzhaber Launches his Budget Plan
• OR-5: NRCC drops big cash on race against Schrader
• River Thoughts
• Chris Dudley, the artful tax dodger
• OR-Gov: Cook moves Oregon Governor's race to "tossup"
• Is Chris Dudley pro-choice? No.
• PGE Tries to Fool Oregonians, Holds Columbia Gorge Hostage
• Chris Dudley: 6'10" Pull String Doll
• Backed by the full faith and credit of... us.
• If I were King of Oregon
• Giving the Push for Clean Energy an Artistic Spin
• Comment by on I cannot reconcile the Two Americas
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• I cannot reconcile the Two Americas
• Shifting the conversation about Health Care Reform
• Reefer Madness-or the song remains the same
• OR-Gov: Kitzhaber challenges Dudley to seven debates
• Designing the Right Columbia River Bridge for the 21st Century
• Kitzhaber House Parties Yesterday
• OR-Gov: Kitz awakens?
• Al Gore cleared by Multnomah County DA
• OR-5: Scott Bruun: Are there no prisons? Are there no work houses?
• Metro: Bob Stacey rocks it on land use
• Running against Peter DeFazio, Art Robinson brings the crazy
• One Sure Path to Clean Energy (and Clean Tech Jobs) in Oregon
• Pay Equity: Fairness and Economic Recovery
• Senate passes reform to rein in Wall Street abuses
• Please, Not Another Monument
• Palomar LNG Pipeline Indefinitely Delayed
• If I were smart enough to reply to Kulongoski's economic austerity plan
• What the Astorian said
• Maybe Lars will have these folks on his show, too.
• Huffman joins many Republicans on BP's side
• Small Businesses Need Strong Consumer Protections Too
• States are the focus for the next stage of health care reform
• Metro approves urban and rural reserves after closed door meeting
• Spanning the State: Sunny skies make me feel good, edition
• Wyden and Merkley Stand Up for Climate Science
• The Oregonian - some thoughts
• Bond financing ain't sexy, but Build America Bonds are creating Oregon jobs today
• Economy Drags on Transit, Service Suffers
• Power Dynamics Over Coffee
• Independent--Party or Empty Slogan?
• Spanning the State: Gleek addition
• When is a Bike Lane not a Bike Lane?
• Crying "uncle"!
• The Language of Illness
• The coming budget cuts
• Kitzhaber does Medford!
• The Snowball of the Sewer Myth
• Redistricting Deformed
• Marion County charter change loses, but isn't lost
• If you've lost Hayden Island, have you lost the CRC?
• The Curious Case of the Missing $5.4 Billion
• The Politics of Small Government
• Clatsop County Election a Defeat for LNG
• Portland Business Alliance Hits a New Low
• WaCo Commission: lessons in bad faith
• Election Night Reactions
• The Arkansas Option
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• Schrader introduces constitutional amendment on campaign finance
• Notes on Mayor Adams’ Education Summit, My Mother, and the Future of Education in America
• Are Mothers In Oregon Happy Today?