Topic: willamette week

Last week, the Willamette Week published an interesting take on Oregon's hybrid tax credits—which combine with existing federal tax credits to make the purchase of hybrid automobiles more attractive to shoppers. Last year alone, the state paid out more than $5 million to those applying for the credit. When the tax credit was created, the concept was to incentivize the purchase of more...

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Over at Willamette Week, writer Corey Pein finds wingnuttery among the weeds while British Columbia attempts to curb global climate change: The Canuck provincial government may be more ambitious than the Kulongoski administration when it comes to environmental policy, but it faces the same sort of batshit-crazy "criticism." "Carbon tax, carbon smax," writes one commenter on the CBC site....

If Union Thug shill Brad Avakian gets his way that will happen. Interesting thought running under the radar right now. There was this little blurb in the Willamette Week "murmurs" section. Thus...

This week's "Rogue of the Week" for Willamette Week is a national figure, but a former Portland (KATU-TV) broadcaster, Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly was only engaging in his usual routine of overheated misinformation, but this time he was pointing it back at Portland. Hence the reference. Details at the link. In general, as the Week suggested, if you take O'Reilly's core shot - “If you let the...

Lest you get the wrong idea, I'm a big fan of Willamette Week. I read it religiously, and think they do a bang-up job when it comes to investigative journalism, and getting the news out about the various things that happen in our fair city in any given week. That said, I've read some stuff lately that's raised a minor hackle. First, this article. Specifically, the sentence "So, yuppies who...

I just want to comment quickly on this Willamette Week article that I briefly mentioned last week. The Harris twins are the sons of Homeschooling Godfather, Gregg Harris. And Mr. Harris has his sons traveling around the United States, speaking at conventions and challenging young Christian teens to, in their words, Do Hard Things. And these hard things are basically the standard Christian...

Man, sometimes I drop the ball. I just wanted to bring attention to the fact that there is a really awesome and FREE show this Sunday. Sunday, June 29th The Willamette Week's Lounge Series XX is happening tonight. If you don't recall, The Lounge Series happens the last Sunday of every month at the Towne Lounge for FREE. Three bands are chosen by the music editors of the Willamette Week to...

I blogged about this some time ago, but maybe, maybe, …. See 6/25/08, Willamette Week Murmurs story: ‘Get me rewrite: Since Oregon’s founders wrote the state Constitution in 1857, much has changed. For instance, Article II, section 9, which disqualifies from public office “every person who shall give, or accept a challenge to fight a duel,” might need tweaking (Randy...

Willamette Week's roving music correspondent, Jay Horton, delights in discovering new talent, and last week he had the opportunity to talk with an up-and-coming pianist traveling through Portland. Ron Jeremy has collaborated with everyone from Moby to Everclear, played to adoring five-figure crowds, and, though we've never before listened to the man's work on the keyboards, they say he has...