Oregon’s system of government is founded on the principle of a citizen legislature, a legislative body made of people whose life experience reflects the issues Oregonians care most deeply about, rather than of those who are efficient campaigners.
For this reason, I deliberately chose not to begin campaigning to succeed Senator Avel Gordly in the Oregon Senate [...]
OSPIRG recently did another survey on payday loan businesses, this time in Lane County.
The results there were basically the same as those found in Portland last year.
The entire report can be found here.
You can find the report done in November, 2005 in Portland here.
Once again, the survey showed that many places charged more than 500%, with the [...]
Dear Congress persons,
Congratulations!!! and many thanks to your complicity, its 4 years of a CRIME in commission.
Heil to you all, you have more than legitimized what hITLER did back in those dark days. For the life of me I could not fathom the holocaust. I could fathom one lunatic and his cronies but a whole [...]
Tickets for Illahee’s Lecture Series last year on Oil and Water sold out well in advance. Illahee’s lecture series for 2007 promises to be equally engaging. The focus is on money and politics. Below is a summary of the speakers for 2007 finishing off with author and political strategist David Sirota. Not to be missed! [...]
Three years ago Dr. Gordon Smith approved invasive surgery on an unwilling patient. The tumors he sought (based on faulty diagnoses) were never found, but Dr. Smith and his team proceeded on anyway, against the wishes of the patient and the advice of other consulting physicians (who his colleagues ridiculed as “cut and runners”), with [...]