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Solkanar512 posted:The anti-Roundup position is especially troubling to me. I spent the year after college working in a salmon stream remediation crew through a partnership between AmeriCorps/Washington Conservation Corps and the SnoCo Water District. Half of that project was maintaining a native plant nursery in Lake Stevens where we would maintain stores of native plants (reclaimed/harvested from construction sites or we were buying bulk saplings and raising them up). The other half was clearing stream areas of invasive species - primarily Reed Canary Grass, Himalayan Blackberry and loving Knotweed. Most of the removal was done mechanically, but Roundup was a really important tool to removing those invasive species in a reasonable amount of time.
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Uranium Phoenix posted:"The huge amount of people pressuring us to adopt this extremely popular thing undermines the process of democracy!
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A Republican candidate for the House and one for the Senate are doing stand-up routines in Portland to get their names out. No, really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDoj9QzRmSQ anthonypants fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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The guys behind 2012's Measure 80 were in the news a few months ago when they didn't pay the canvassers they hired for this year's attempt at a marijuana legalization initiative. Which also happened in 2012. Measure 80 was really bad, I just looked up an old post and the original site is now a parked domain but in Japanese. That's okay because here's another one (the ones from the State are in pdfs and aren't ocr'd). Here's some sentences they wanted to put into the Oregon Constitution: quote:George Washington grew cannabis for more than 30 years and, while he was President, said, “the artificial preparation of hemp is really a curiosity” and told his Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, that he was, “suggesting the policy of encouraging the growth of Hemp” quote:Thomas Jefferson invented a device to process cannabis, and cannabis fiber was used for most clothing and paper production until the invention of the cotton gin quote:Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania, who spoke at the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 more than any other delegate and of whom James Madison said, “the style and finish of the Constitution properly belongs to the pen of Gouverneur Morris,” wrote a paper he sent to Thomas Jefferson called, “Notes Respecting Tobacco” that compared cannabis and tobacco and concluded that cannabis “is to be preferred” quote:Whereas the people hold that cannabis prohibition is a sumptuary law of a nature repugnant to our constitution’s framers and which is so unreasonable and liberticidal as to:
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Schwack posted:Didn't the guy who ended up fronting the measure also have a fairly extensive criminal history? I remember there being a pretty reasonable 'smear' campaign behind Measure 80 simply because it was so terribly written.
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Oregon's ACA healthcare exchange was a massive clusterfuck after it was rolled out, and we eventually dropped it this year in favor of using the federal exchange instead. If you haven't seen the video yet, John Oliver covered it on his HBO show. One of the things he made fun of was the twee garbage ads they made for Cover Oregon, and the advertising company hired to do those ads got really upset and responded in an open letter on their blog. Oregon placed the blame on Oracle, the organization the state health authority hired to build our exchange, and our governor told everyone a few months ago that we were probably going to sue them. Except today, Oracle sued Oregon. It doesn't help that Oregon was extremely loving stupid about this contract, but Oracle is a pretty incompetent organization so I'm having a really tough time picking a side here.
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Ardennes posted:John Oliver's rant really shows how none of the rest of the US really has any idea what Oregon actually is like, and just takes the usual half-assed route like Portlandia does.
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Ernie Muppari posted:The side that isn't loving Oracle. cowtown posted:
paragraph 16 posted:On September 18, 2013—mere days before the October 1 deadline—Cover Oregon’s Executive Director still had not grasped the deep substantive challenges to going live that his organization had created in the development process. He repeatedly conveyed concern about the "sizzle not the steak" of the massive IT project, as evidenced by a lengthy email he wrote to an Oracle consultant in which he described his desire to make the website look good, and apparently assumed the ongoing functional challenges would resolve themselves: anthonypants fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Aug 9, 2014 |
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Hedera Helix posted:Is this going to affect people who are already enrolled?
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FRINGE posted:This always reeks of rear end-covering. HAHA! Your fault, our contract says so! No matter how we poo poo our pants its your fault!
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Cicero posted:Right, but demand for high-end housing isn't infinite. Once the lower-hanging fruit is taken, it seems like developers would still prefer making some profit via building middle-class housing rather than doing nothing. 
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Ardennes posted:I think the Streetcar has a place and for the most part has reached the goals it needed to which is mostly a circulator around the CBD and some nearby neighborhoods. In the sense of taxes and development, it has probably paid for itself or will in a short amount of time and most of the money came for it came from TIFs and federal money.
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Ardennes posted:Basically his only opponent during the race imploded because the Oregonian and the local media ran a daily story for weeks about the fact he once punched a girl in college at a party. That said, your right though Hales was anti-homeless from the beginning and even the Mercury backed him.
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Thanatosian posted:You guys should just rebuild that bridge on your own, then toll the poo poo out of it. Ardennes posted:At this point Vancouver/Clark County is happy to build the bridge now the CRC is finally dead, just without tolls, rail and Oregon has to pay half of the local costs. It sounds like a deal. It's not like the CRC project wasn't without problems; we couldn't get the Coast Guard to sign off on the design because the bridge they decided on was too low after how many years of planning? And then they started freaking out because it was running up to the deadline to get the federal money. God.
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xrunner posted:That's exactly what we did with the sellwood bridge. Except the toll part. What I'm saying is portland has a history of building bridges for our neighbors... Who mostly just poo poo talk
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Thanatosian posted:If you were wondering why Clackamas rejected it: this is why.
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Kaal posted:Yeah interstate traffic would be snarled, but Portland is much better equipped for dealing with that than Vancouver. There's certainly more cost effective ways of getting intracity commuters to their work and back than building a bridge to Vancouver. It's a major N/S corridor, but Oregon isn't really harmed if the commercial traffic heading to Washington or British Columbia has to route around Portland. I mean sure, it would be better if Washington had joined with Oregon and built the Columbia River Crossing, but frankly those bridges are much more to the benefit of Vancouver than Portland. Portland can live without them pretty easily and still be Portland - Vancouver without those bridges is a ghost town.
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SyHopeful posted:Regardless of residence, if you work in Oregon you pay Oregon income tax, so OR is getting something out of Vancouverites.
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Let's get some freight rail going along I-5, that'll gently caress with Clark County.
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Chantilly Say posted:Let's run freight rail lines all over the metro and let people hop rides on passing boxcars to get around.
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Thanatosian posted:Could we actually ship some murderous hobos into Clark County?
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How many tons of freight traffic goes across the I-5 bridge in each direction?
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MrKatharsis posted:Are you goons seriously confusing chik-fil-a with fried chicken?
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mod sassinator posted:If I had a lot of disposable income I would seriously try to bring a Steak 'n Shake franchise to Seattle. Plop one down near Dicks in Capitol Hill or Queen Anne and keep it open 24 hours, then bathe in the money that rolls in.
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Mrit posted:Fixed.
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effectual posted:You never listened to hip hop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfOJaoeE3mQ&t=201s
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Reason posted:Oldschool in Olympia is great for that real college pizza joint feel, it also is pretty good real merican pizza. What is neapolitan pizza? Is it like thin crust fusion pizzas? I see those everywhere and sometimes they can be good especially with bbq sauce and bacon.
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HondaCivet posted:Speaking of pizza, where can I get good deep dish pizza in Portland? It seems a big hard to find around here. Hedera Helix posted:Are there any places that serve Neapolitan pizza in Portland? I'd like to try it out, after reading about it here.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah one thing Portland is not lacking is tons of pizza of multiple varieties including gluten-free/vegan.
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LGD posted:Have you tried Lucky Strike?
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xrunner posted:Honest question. Where exactly do the people who comment on stories in the Oregonian come from? They're always so hateful... Case in point http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2014/08/cinthya_garcia-cisneros_releas.html#incart_m-rpt-1 I'm alan bittig in the comments. Which is also my real name because I kind of hate hiding behind a pseudonym. Now, not to get too deeply into my own history, but when I was 12 (1992) I watched my own 7 year old brother get killed by a car. Nate was (stupidly, as kids do) playing in the street, and the driver was (stupidly) doing 60 in a 30. I've never held either responsible. It was a horrible accident. As was this. So why, beyond the tint of the drivers skin, are people so concerned with bringing down the hammer. Personally, I just want to shake this young woman's hand and assure her it's not her fault.
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His Republican opponent, Dennis Richardson, is some John McCain-lookin fucker who's a lawyer and a state rep outside of Medford. The gubernatorial debates should start next month. Considering the beating Kitzhaber's going to take over Cover Oregon, he's probably going to win. Remember, Chris Dudley only lost by a point and a half.
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glowing-fish posted:A Republican candidate is "probably" going to win in Oregon, for the first time since 1986?
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Kazak_Hstan posted:Not an Oregonian, why is Merkley's challenger dodging debates? It's usually the other way around.
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The CEO of the company that caters Safeco Field was shown abusing a dog in an elevator in a Vancouver, BC hotel back in July. Part of his defense was that it wasn't his dog, but that appears to be a lie. Happy National Dog Day!
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Reason posted:this poo poo, some libertarian 'think' tank is boycotting a national holiday because freedom or something also look at this guys head.
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And The Elliott is selling the Elliott State Forest to timber companies.
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mod sassinator posted:Was down in Portland for the weekend, and late at night I saw a traffic light go from solid red to blinking red and then completely off. WTF, is that normal?
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SyHopeful posted:From what I understand, SA has kept Sawant's schedule pretty full flying her around the country (and also London) to help build chapters and give support to local campaigns. She's pretty drat busy.
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