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Pay to Play. Is This Really News?

September 10, 2009

There was a recent article in OregonLive.com that talked about how school kids are having to pay for social/sporting activities, shelling out money to play sports, get a yearbook, play a musical instrument etc. Is this anything new?

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Tagged as: activities, dance team, Economy, OregonLive.com, parkrose high school, schools

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Not Exactly About Portland But…

March 16, 2009

Time Magazine has a rather depressing slideshow this morning, photo after photo of vacant and dead retail spaces. Taken in context it’s sad visual commentary on the decline of big stores in the U.S. these days – being something of a shopaholic, I found myself getting a little misty looking at these even though none [...]

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Tagged as: Closed Stores, Dead Retailers, Economy, Frank Burley, Time Magazine

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Oregon On Yet Another List NOT To Be Proud Of…

March 12, 2009

We Portlanders and Oregonians just LOVE being on Top 10 lists. Well, here’s one that we should take absolutely no pride in whatsoever…
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that Oregon is the state to be if you want to live in a place with the 5th highest unemployment rate. 9.9% of us don’t have [...]

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Tagged as: circuit city, Economy, Jobless Rate, Joe's, unemployment

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Gov. Ted Kulongoski Wants YOU To Work For Free!

February 19, 2009

We all know that Salem has a bit of a drug problem (epidemic?) but who would have guessed that Governor Kulongoski was smokin’ some of the local grow when he announced today that all of the states education system funding fears could be laid to rest simply by asking teachers to work for nothing?
Gosh! Is [...]

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Tagged as: Economy, education, ted kulongoski

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How Much More of My Money Does Starbucks Need?

February 11, 2009

Barely two years I read Joseph Michelli’s bestseller “The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary“. Barely two years ago Starbucks was devouring competing coffee chains like Coffee People and Seattle’s Best Coffee with the zeal of a fat man at an all you can eat buffet. Barely two years ago Starbucks could do [...]

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Tagged as: Economy, howard schultz, Joseph Michelli, starbucks

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Nike to Close Tiger Woods Hat Division, Millions of Golfers Shrug

February 10, 2009

Nike announced today that they plan on dumping a few million dollars into figuring out who to shit can in order to reduce their workforce by 4% by late May. Since Nike employs some 35,000 people worldwide, 7,000 of them at the big Beaverton HQ, that’s about 1,400 jobs that could potentially be cut. For [...]

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Tagged as: Economy, job cuts, layoffs, nike, tiger woods

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Governor Ted Vs. The Budget

February 2, 2009

… and the winner is … the lucky inmates at eight Oregon State minimum security prisons that could potentially be cut loose early due to lack of funding.
Yeah, right. I’ll believe that one when I see it. If City Commissioner Randy Leonard needs someone to demonstrate how to be a Grade A Drama Queen then [...]

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Tagged as: Economy, oregon state budget, prisons, ted kulongoski

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Oregon Democrats: Do Something. Anything. Even if it’s the Wrong Thing.

January 31, 2009

Lovely.
Oregon State Democrats, led by budget co-chairwoman Sen. Margaret Carter, are freely admitting that they’ll spend money on just about anything to stimulate the economy. With the $175,000,000.00 (that’s millions just in case all of those zeroes confuse you MGIP) stimulus package in full misdirected swing, said Democrats figure that blindly firing off a whole slew [...]

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Tagged as: 175 million, democrats, Economy, oregon stimulus package, republicans, senator margaret carter

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For the Lake Oswego Tyke Who Has Everything…

January 25, 2009

Capable of a mean 5 mph highway and 4 mph driveway, the Power Wheels Cadillac Escalade by Fisher-Price thumbs its nose at both the economic recession and public school children. Mortgage crisis be damned! Get your Lake O. child started early on a life of decadence for the low, low price of only $349.99. Thankfully [...]

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