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Winning is the all-time greatest cure for warts and all other unsightly sports blemishes, Nathan. Try to calm down and enjoy the ride.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Let's see Casanova's last year was 1966 so that would be 50 years ago. It's possible. 1966 was my first year at the U of O and I don't remember seeing Old Soul there, though.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
They have certainly noticed that we aren't capable of teaching marketable skills to enough of our students to fill the high tech positions which actually pay good wages. Instead, each year about 40 thousand of them come to the US on H-1B Visas and make 6-figure salaries at Google and Microsoft etc. The liberal arts majors manage McDonalds franchises and the athletes that weren't good enough to go professional sell cars and insurance.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If she is indicted, either for the mishandling of classified material or her sweetheart deals for donors to the Clinton Foundation while she was Sec'y of State, the comparison to RMN will definitely come to the fore.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's clear you've studied up on the students' reactions to the KU assistant professor's comments that landed her on interminable leave and not their content. However, what's more interesting is your willingness to parse what constitutes academic freedom of speech as it suits you. There is no war on tenure beyond what resides in your mind. There are questions being asked that upset your status quo, so it's understandable that you would not deem them to be progressive. Independence should include the freedom to address that which others might find offensive or even ugly. You're either in favor of defending free speech or you're not. Thanks for making it clear where you stand.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
It's a simple proposition: If you want more of something, make it more attractive to produce it. If you want less of something, tax it. If Oregonians want jobs, innovation, technology and good-paying manufacturing jobs, the path forward is obvious. Lower the costs of doing business. Lower the risks. Lower the costs of energy, taxes and regulation. Unfortunately, progressives and specifically Gov. Brown are doing the opposite. To drive people (or jobs) away, annoy them. Frighten them. Intimidate them. Call them names. Charge them fees and create uncertainty. Democrats are experts at all of these things. Jobs are being created in Texas, Utah, even in North Dakota (Brrrr!) and what used to be called the "Old South." How are they doing that? When Oregon makes it safe and profitable to do business here, our young people will find the jobs they need. Until then, our economy and our schools will continue to suffer.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I'm curious, if both of your children received scholarships from private schools in Oregon, why weren't similar academic inducements offered to them to attend the state's so-called flagship university? That seems like bad business on the UO's part not to compete for in-state students, especially the children of an alum, who were being pursued by schools with higher admission standards.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
When I was a volunteer fireman and practicing in a 'burn to learn' situation, everyone laughed like loons at me when I knocked down a room with a cone of spray at the flashed over ceiling and the steam explosion blew me out the doorway! When I was on active duty firing 25 mm shells on a night exercise practice and blowing up the targets, you can bet I and my crew laughed and joked after successfully passing our Table VII test. It's what some of us do to relieve stress whether in an actual situation or a practice one. If you are doing something inherently dangerous, when it's basically over and you or one of your buddies aren't injured or dead, it is a natural reaction.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's interesting that the same ratio applies to the recently passed increase in the state lodging tax. Three of every four dollars it raises come from out of state, yet some Oregonians insist it's another unwarranted gouge into their wallets. The political flaw, of course, was wedding the increase to a sports extravaganza five years hence instead of making the case that it was a mostly painless way to boost Oregon's statewide tourism industry that could have used the goosing on its own merits anyway. As for the privatization of the state's public higher education system, that's been going on for longer than people have bothered to notice.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As I expected, its an ego thing. Software has been around for a long time with many many major players. It is somewhat delusional to think that the local firms will address and capture large markets. Thousands of companies nationally and internationally are trying to identify the major markets and to get there first. One might just as well say that innovations in the wood products industry could create a unique product and have mega billion dollar consequences.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Especially since that was back before the Legislature really abdicated any financial responsibility for the U of O and my income taxes were paying for more of it than they do today, that question tended to make me a little cranky as well. My children weren't black or native American minorities or financially disadvantaged because both I and my wife worked, so maybe all the scholarship money went to affirmative action. The non-minority middle class are the payers, not the recipients of governmental largesse, even that doled out by Duck U. I've always commented on the fact that the Asian minorities in this country aren't treated any better than the Caucasians, however. Wonder why that is; and why so many of them seem to excel in the difficult and therefore high-paying fields like math and science. The phrase 'work ethic' keeps running through my mind, though.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"...they will help the entire community with solutions and problem solving to change the culture of our local communities." Sounds great, can you expand a little on what "solutions and problem solving" will be used to change what parts of our local culture.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Quote by Ronald Reagan, Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (August 15, 1986)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sorry to inform you of the truth but the political establishment of democrats in Oregon placed Oregon under the bus long ago. PERS was the tilling point and it's been down hill ever since. Oregon public schools F-. Outsider is it totally right "It is important for citizens understand that business will not pay any of the proposed massive tax increase. All the tax increase will be passed on to the citizens in the form of price increases". Oregon is in a slow death spiral under liberal control plain and simple with no future.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latest Michigan Polls, George. Looking like Trump v. Clinton more and more. "Trump has 41% among likely Republican primary voters, followed by Ted Cruz (22%), Marco Rubio (17%) and John Kasich (13%), according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. In the Michigan Democratic race, Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by 57% to 40% among likely primary voters. "Given his poll standing, Trump leads the GOP pack among almost every demographic group — men, women, Republicans, independents, moderate GOP primary voters and conservatives," NBC News reported. "He's even ahead of Cruz by one point among white evangelicals, 30% to 29%."	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Or maybe the Headline should read: “Wyden in Eugene Running for Re-election”; a whopping 30 staff members get paid an extra 50 cents over minimum to show up and hold a sign.”	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0.2	0
Maybe the R-G needs to hire a reporter who spends most of her/his time on the U of O beat so they have contacts over there who will let them know when information like this is released to other news media. Relying on U of O press releases doesn't seem to be doing it. The U of O is the employer who has the 2nd most employees in Eugene-Springfield, after all. The seven other big employers who are primarily supported by tax dollars are already getting their news covered.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
We are a local (native to Eugene-Springfield) "solutions provider." Simply put, entrepreneur that solves business problems (wickedly fast Wi-Fi, VO-WiFi, phones without PBX upgrades..."backbone technology solutions" that can give a competitive advantage with the right investments. This can save a company, as those forward thinkers who embrace change to become "technology enabled." As more companies...any company that seriously want to compete in the global economic environment we live in, they are now "enabled" and can grow, can hire more workers.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
And "Hillary Clinton insists immunity for staffer who set up private email is good news" LOL https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/06/hillary-clinton-insists-immunity-for-staffer-who-set-up-private-email-is-good-news/	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I'm sure that Kitty showed up for free; the rest? You might be pretty close to right on most of them.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Our community is undergoing a rapid transformation. I cannot speak to the software development piece, but I understand it. Sometimes that is key to having a well rounded perspective on the goals and realities of getting away from relying upon timber dollars... a local culture that does run deep.... I know many loggers for example. Innovations in the wood products industries are already happening. An example could be a new buncher/feller head for heavy equipment... from an office perspective, a paper-less solution could propel a company into profitable territory. I don't see much in the way of "ego" per say... its just a different way of looking at things, so our families can benefit from folks that have a vested interest in our hometown.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
He did not call all Mexicans rapists. He did say, and it has been proven that some of the illegal aliens are indeed rapists and murders.	0.55	0.0375	0.05	0.0375	0.5	0.4875	0.1625
I don't recall who it was, but someone mentioned something about OS was slow in making the change over from Disqus to Civil Comments because OS was in County lockup?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Like I wrote earlier, this internet(s) thing is a wonderful tool. http://billygraham.org/answer/what-did-jesus-mean-when-he-said-the-last-would-become-first/ Billy says Jesus spoke of such.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
They want to have their fun and not have to pay for it.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Well, for a fact the broad insinuation that voter I.D. laws must result in thousands upon thousands of poor Democrats being turned away from the polls appears completely unsubstantiated on its face - yet you have no problem trotting out this pernicious little meme to "prove" the malfeasance of Republicans. (Do you know of a single, solitary case anywhere, anytime in the last decade where a voter was turned away for lacking a picture I.D.? I've never heard of one.) Given the liberal penchants of modern-day mass media, that is simply astonishing, if it ever happens at all (let alone has had any effect on an election). Your joke also falls very flat - even though you fervently embrace it as truth. Thank you for sharing. :-/	0.2	0	0	0	0.2	0	0
Watching someone destroy your house even if it is burning and seeing them laugh and joke while destroying it is pretty tough to swallow, all the while laboring with a boatload of benefits and guaranteed retirement, and having a two day a week work week. As I said before, the military could do this function at 1/3 of the cost. As far as the guys salary, if he is compensated so comparably, then why are there tens of thousands of applicants for every firefighting opening ?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Good question. Another good question would be: Were the public employee union pension funds regularly paid up, all the while the Water Department went without operating expenses? :-/	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maybe the Canadian health care system is full of problems, but your quote that "I have known a sick man who left his country [Canada]" to come to the US for medical care is virtually identical to quote from a Shona Holmes (or Lindsay McCreith) who claims the same thing. In fact, Shona was diagnosed with Rathke’s cleft cyst, which is benign and "not typically life-threatening," according to the Mayo Clinic." Silverhorn, I doubt you ever knew such a person as you claim. Instead I believe you are quoting (on purpose or inadvertently) from an ad produced by Americans for Prosperity, a Right Wing, corporate funded mouthpiece that churns out arguments so that anti-government conservatives have talking points. It's even from 2009, meaning 7 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_Holmes_health_care_incident	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I know exactly how it will affect them, and us.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I love how a few tech businesses spending money on a marketing campaign is supposed to improve livability downtown. Really? How much more could be accomplished if they just donated the time and money they spent on all this directly to the needy? I'm all for community building, but it's completely fatuous for local tech companies to act like they're making meaningful change via marketing. Clearly, they just want a reason to talk about themselves. How's that not an ego thing?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
he was driving illegally. If he had obeyed our laws he wouldn't be dead. it doesn't matter alcohol was not the reason he died. What matters is he was driving intoxicated and shouldn't have been on the road in the first place.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Crum seems to have a problem with how other people spend their money.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sorry. The gentleman in question is a former colleague of mine, at the time an adjunct professor at a Colorado university. He and his wife have business offices in Ottawa (the Canadian connection). He had some sort of glial growth that required shooting high-energy radiation into his brainstem - a rather hairy procedure, which, fortunately, worked, in that he survived the treatment and is still with us. I take no offense. I appreciate that your skepticism is the product of the pernicious and cynical age in which we live. To be sure, I feel somewhat the same way about the lurid tales of droves of Democrats being driven away from the polls because they lack photo I.D., although (oddly enough) no one ever produces witnesses, reliable news reports, or names names. :-/ Thank you for sharing.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It is what it is.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
yup. just like if he had thc in his system while driving. what the death certificate says doesn't count	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Good. Jump in there Betsy Johnson too. The more, the merrier.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You should show him the links.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
While I noticed his fairly late arrival, I missed that allegation. I just figured he was vacationing on his private island in the Caribbean.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I believe, based on huffingtonpost.com/senate-gop ... of feb 14, 2016 (my mouse is dying - no copy/ paste) the GOP has no intention of trying to work with Obama on seating anyone. I think they are determined to obstruct the functioning of federal government deliberately by dragging their heels on fulfilling a legislative duty.	0.142857	0	0	0	0.142857	0	0
billy says	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As was first done on someone nominated by John Quincy on December 18, 1828. The Senate postponed the vote on his confirmation, by a vote of 23–17, on February 12, 1829. The Senate did not explicitly vote to "postpone indefinitely", but the resolution did have that effect. He was never actually given an up or down vote.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Age 66 and he's driving drunk, no wonder he died behind the wheel. He already had two strikes against him. Any additional factor, like a piece of debris or a wheel on the road, and he's not going to be able to respond adequately. People really need to stop thinking that driving is something that can be done in such a careless manner.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Point taken.... I'll just ask what other new angles are being developed and deployed that are successful? The private sector is stepping up to help...and not all marketing costs money. For example, many of the companies involved in Hack For A Cause DONATED thousands of dollars in services and products in an effort to help SOLVE problems-I don't see that as completely fatuous (silly and pointless)... we offer our services for many non-profit efforts to make our community more habitable for everyone. That to me is not "ego," its "paying it forward" and lifting all boats with that tide... that tide has arrived.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Then Wyden's gum-flapping, Kitty's lap-sitting and the scrubbed-and-waxed appearance by the young mannequins for a bluer Oregon were just another photo op and had nothing to do with fulfilling any duty, legislative or otherwise. Kudos to the detail-oriented operative careful enough to include the registered trademark symbol on the home-made posters.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If they aren't finding the lifestyle diseases in our local health picture, they're certainly not looking very hard. I've never lived anywhere with so many apparently pregnant men, many seemingly months beyond term. (Don't even talk about the enormous storage vessels of reduced carbon that are the females hereabouts; we don't want to damage anyone's body image.) While our total population is relatively young, owing to the presence of the UO, I'd like to see a breakdown of the incidence of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer among the residents with access to screening for such lifestyle diseases who are also over the age of forty. I suspect it wouldn't look good. Meanwhile, we're becoming an ever more sedentary culture locally. To a reasonable round-off error, no one from the suburbs goes anywhere without their motorized couch and it's not much better inside the city limits as we are losing cyclists and pedestrians by the day.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
What a disgusting display.	0.5875	0.0125	0.075	0	0.5125	0	0
Wish he had stayed in Yakima Washington. The Dalles Chronicle , Feb 19, 2014 "Oregon State Police arrest: #Flavio Renteria Robledo, 18, Yakima, Wash., was arrested Tuesday afternoon during a traffic stop on Interstate 84 eastbound, milepost 94 and is accused of unlawful possession of marijuana, unlawful delivery of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance."	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
This is purely in reference to your comment about job creation. "In 2015, private-sector employment in North Dakota fell by 18,700 jobs, an average of 1,560 jobs per month" http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/1058e7a6-7035-4f15-9e8b-11441634acf0/north-dakota.pdf "In 2015, private-sector employment in Oregon grew by 41,100 jobs, an average of 3,420 jobs per month." http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/82e63fa4-5745-4652-84a3-9837b72bce7a/oregon.pdf "In 2015, private-sector employment in Alabama grew by 20,300 jobs, an average of 1,690 jobs per month." "In 2015, private-sector employment in Utah grew by 39,100 jobs, an average of 3,260 jobs per month" "In 2015, private-sector employment in Texas grew by 141,300 jobs, an average of 11,770 jobs per month" I think Oregon is doing quite well. Utah is slightly better on a per population basis, otherwise Oregon is doing better than these (these are all I looked at) on a per population basis.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
that is ridiculously absurd. having THC in your system does not mean you were driving while on drugs as this drug can stay in a body for 6 months after consumed.	0.4	0	0.1	0	0.4	0	0
It would be an interesting study to see how much a new appointment has shifted the court versus the person they replace, with some sub study of this kind of situation (liberal President, conservative Justice and vice versa). I'm sure there is rarely an exact copy picked for the replacement, but I do think the previous person's positions may influence the choice a bit. Frankly, if I were part of the GOP leadership I would factor in the possibility that the next President could be Clinton or Sanders, and if a Republican, could be Trump, and think about voting for someone in the center if nominated. The first two could put forth a series of liberal nominees with a full 4 years in their term, and Trump is unpredictable.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Are those tens of thousands of applicants applying for Fire Chief like this guy was?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I'm so proud! This group of Ducks deserves it. They are both as classy and as hard working as their coach. Has anyone, anywhere worked as hard as Elgin Cook over the past 5 games? Great effort Ducks! Great work Ducks! Now pack your lunch buckets men and get back to work. Congrats!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Large Corporations like Planned Parenthood need to protect their assets. (In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, total revenue was $1.3 billion. Planned Parenthood receives above a third of its money in government grants and contracts (about $528 million in 2014). During the 2014 election cycle, Planned Parenthood spent $6,587,100 on contributions to candidates and political parties and on independent expenditures Wonder how much of that $6.5 million went to Senator Wyden?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Considering the abysmal current status of the U of O, as revealed in part by those posting here, and the AAU discussion about kicking the U of O out of their system, Stanford was clearly a much better place to invest ones' money. The Governor and the legislators who have been bought by Nike are the ones who have chosen to fund the track boondoggle with tax dollars.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The likelihood that the "Technology Association of Oregon in the southern Willamette Valley" is going to turn Eugene into the new Silicon Valley or even the new Silicon Forest, is right up there with the odds that the kid in the garage next door to me is the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I've previously suggested that all fast food emporiums should be required to have scales capable of determining Body Mass Indexes. When you went in to order you would get on the scale and enter height, age and gender. If the meal you ordered exceeded 1/3 of 1800 calories based on your BMI, a BMI siren would go off and a loud voice would intone "Hog Body! Hog Body! Hog Body!" You would then be fined for the excess calories when you continued with your purchase with the proceeds going to support direct community medical costs.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LMAO!	0.1	0	0.2	0	0.1	0	0.2
I'm sorry. Per Chief Justice Roberts when he upheld Obamacare, it would have to be a "tax" not a "fine". Self-taxation, just like playing the Oregon Lottery.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
As a scientist and technologist, your hype does not work on me. Wi-Fi standards and speeds are adopted by industry-wide standards groups. There is zero problem in electronically configuring a multi-gigabit WiFi product. Trouble is it will not be in conformance to national standards and will not sell. WiFi bandwidth is set by standards and FCC communications bandwidth decisions not by technology. Any tech innovators here in Eugene are going to face insanely intense competition from companies around the globe. Many industries locally could grow through addressing large markets from organic food to jewelry. They should receive as much attention as the downtown tech start-ups.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
yeah, maybe all those people were doing just as you say....or maybe they actually believe that other people have rights equal to those that want to play this political game. right to life exec director atteberry is going to take what kind of position of this? surprised?. curious...what "detail-oriented operative' was careful enough to include the registered trademark symbol on the home made posters"? . frankly, I could do those at home...the equipment isn't all that rare of hard to operate....legal requirement to use the trademark symbol in a name that is trademarked.	0.166667	0	0.166667	0.166667	0.166667	0	0.166667
You sound lost on this one.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Catherine endorses the notion of controlling individual behavior that is perceived as disrespectful. Once that endorsement is made, once it is accepted that individuals must tow the politically correct line, we cannot fault a group for their PC decisions. If those at the college find sombreros objectionable, who is Catherine or anyone else to object. The principle of forcing individuals to conform to PC notions as in "black face" is established. I think most Americans, if asked privately whether wearing black make-up was unacceptable would say no. The media on the other hand has decided that black make-up is a social no-no. Not because it is physically offensive but because they feel, what, that whites have no right to enjoy emulating those with natural black pigment? What the media proclaims often has little to do with what many Americans think. That is why Trump is popular. We are tired of the media controlling us.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I can think of one liberal billionaire - Richard branson...he's british and probably doesn't give a rip about us except for financially and business dealings. who else can you think of? billionaire and liberal don't often get put together in that context.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The Iran nuclear deal was acquiescence in whatever Iran wanted to get a deal for Obama's legacy. Iran's continuing efforts in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen to continue proxy wars against Sunni countries and organizations will only result in more death and destruction. Satisfying Obama's ego will be the only lasting effect. Your other two points are well-taken.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
You can round up the usual suspects on both sides, but only one decided he needed some local face time to create even a slight blip in the news cycle. As another poster called it, this was just a Wyden campaign kickoff rally masquerading as ... well, a Wyden campaign kickoff rally, except for all the stern faces of rehearsed urgency lined up in perfect rows. Makes you wonder how much was spent on security to keep those 30 from breathing too heavily in the senator's direction. Speaking of equipment that isn't hard to operate, any chance you'll solve the mystery of the "Shift" key soon, or are you a living homage to e.e cummings?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.166667
That use of the term "lost" accuses me of being uncertain without any rebuttal as to why I should question my claim. Your defense of Callihan with such a maneuver sounds like you have no evidence to back up your statement of confidence in his abilities. What evidence do you have that it was a FAUX lawsuit? Anyone can pontificate on the 'net, but doing so without substantiation only makes such assertions blather.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
It's a calculated risk for both sides, and there are probably some helpful think tanks and more than a few grad/law students cranking out papers on the subject from each perspective. Wyden comes off as a silly opportunist with his manufactured sense of urgency that didn't exist until Scalia assumed room temperature. If he's wants to scold Republicans for being obstructionists, fire away, but pandering to his home-state base like this makes him look even less consequential than usual, if that's possible.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Until high level nuclear waste can safely be disposed of (perhaps by launching it into our local star, often referred to as The Sun), nuclear power's lasting dangerous residue makes it a poor choice as an energy source. Democratic Senator Reid, while Majority Leader of the Senate, defunded the multi-billion dollar storage site in Nevada in 2010 supposedly for that very reason. Japan has closed every nuclear power plant which used to provide 30% of Japan's power. Europe's nuclear energy programs are in a mixed stage of new proposals which are over budget, decommissioning and upgrades of existing plants. They have yet to come up with a safe disposal location for high level waste. They are talking about sending low-level waste (like that sent to Yucca Mountain Nevada in 2014) to somewhere in Eastern Europe. When you have things that are going to be dangerous for 15.7 million years (Iodine-129) or two million years (Neptunium-237) being optimistic is not an option.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I just want to clear up an opinion some of you might have regarding PPS maintenance workers. The reason it appears that we don't work, or have a gravy job is because we have a Sr. Manager telling us that we have to "do things half assed." Don't get me wrong, there are a fair share of lazy workers, but the majority of us want to do good work and be able to take pride in our work. It's just extremely hard to do that when your manager won't allow you the materials or time to do it.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
re the caps issue ..............LOL... it always makes me laugh when this bottom of the barrel observation comes up in regards to my post. basically, I think its a bothersome non-essential thing. I have a hard enough time hitting the correct keys as it is....don't need the added challenge of finding ANOTHER key. are you having a hard time understanding stuff because of it? does a cap mean anything except a few random "rules" are being followed? to what end? who decided capital letters should be used in the first place? maybe i'm just a rebel and maybe i'm in the vanguard of a new world order in written communication. think about it....	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oh good! KVAL now has this story on its newscast. It being Sunday, the R-G has no one capable of doing the cut-and-paste from the AP Wire so R-G customers can have the same information. Other than this hobby, what am I paying $22.00 per month for? The comics?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hopefully this tax has an exclusion for S-corp businesses owned by a family as all profits are passed through on a K-1 to the individual's income and taxed as personal income already. Imposing a tax on these small single individual / family businesses is essentially taxing them twice! I'd simply shut down my S-corp and go to some other tax entity if that's the case though it would be unnecessarily time consuming. Also, keep in mind that if a business is selling goods that can also be purchased online the price difference could be enough to cause them to lose more buyers to internet purchases.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Or maybe it's just a different style of arrogance. "I'm too (important) (special) (intelligent)(all of the above) to follow societal rules" Look at me, "I'm unique". (just like everyone else).	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
The public sector unions sponsoring this sales tax wouldn't know a Subchapter-S corporation if it bit them on their ankles. They know "Union Good". "Corporation Bad". "'Corporations' have lots of money". "Union workers need money for PERS and salary increases." "Take money". "Poor people and old people suffer. Too bad. Union workers need money." Repeat.	0.166667	0	0	0	0.166667	0	0
Finally.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
even in it's heyday with the auto industry running their crossroads of commercial transport position, flint was always a rough and tough city. dingy and hard scrabble. the shipping on the great lakes is nowhere near as busy as it used to be. there isn't the mass amounts of lumber or cars or manufactured goods going east and west to shipping ports. that was flints life blood... It has been low rent for some time.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
yes on the e.e. cummins question. but more just..why?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
or just not really caring. I got bigger things to worry about. i'm on this stinkin'computer all the time. i'm not gonna spend more time hunting down keys... does it really matter? really? it seems to matter to you - who made this capital thing up anyway?	0.5	0	0.4	0	0.3	0	0
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I was a software engineer for over twenty years, so I am capable of understanding what this writer is saying.. yet I can't see a single thing of lasting value that was created here, with the possible exception of a prototype for a downtown kiosk system. However, I do see the writer asking for the city to build a multimillion dollar high-speed fiber network. Perhaps that is the point.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sheesh, Kitty Piercy says she's worried about "extremism". What does she think Eugene has endured the last 12 years?!	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sarcastic. ADJECTIVE 1.marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt. Nah! I'll go with Arrogant: ADJECTIVE 1.having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
I hope the new UO president continues to clean house and rid the university of its many bad players. She should have been fired with cause the day "the list" was shown to exist, before she could retaliate against the one good cop the university had	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Most gun dealers wait until the background check is approved but there are plenty who will transfer after waiting the minimum 3 days wait following a delay. Pressure from the Oregon Firearms Federation is part of it. The truth is that most delayed background checks are resolved in hours or within a matter of days. It is rare for a check to take more than 30 days. If the purchaser wants to know why their check is delayed, OSP will tell them exactly why so the people who claim it's an arbitrary process are being disingenuous.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
If you think unemployment is high now, just wait for additional increased taxes on small S corporate business or even large corporation. There is nothing to stop Boeing and Nike from leaving the State, both companies have divisions that can transfer the same work out of the State of Oregon.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Police agencies, like the military, have and need higher standards than the civilian world. Failure to enforce those standards by the leadership sets new and always lower standards down the chain of command. Without those standards, you wind up with armed thugs instead of societal protectors. Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Portland, Oregon. It's always more obvious in the larger cities, but the principle exists all the way down to one-officer towns.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Good gracious, man. Don't confuse the poor darlings with facts. Those things have a well-known liberal bias. I'll just add that if we want to attract the kinds of businesses that have been fuelling the economic powerhouse to the south of us, we need to raise our quality of life game: schools, rail and other public transit, recreation (we're pretty good here, but our environmental law enforcement and traffic law enforcement is holding us back) and such. Doing that will take some tax increases. I expect a number of people to move to Nevada as a result. Enjoy your new digs.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Michael Bloomberg? Mark Zuckerberg? George Soros? Tom Steyer? Even Bill Gates ... whose foundation already is pretty generous to PP, if I understand correctly. And surely Oprah, Nancy P., and any number of wealthy women from the worlds of politics and entertainment could stand to contribute a few tens of millions to The Cause, if they really wanted to. :-/	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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Employment in ND has dropped because of the collapse of oil prices. The other numbers represent a single year and it has been said that Oregon lagged on the recovery from the 2008 economic slump. To be useful, we need employment over several years and other figures like unemployment rate etc. Here are the unemployment rates ( http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm ): ND 2.7% OR 5.5% AL 6.3% UT 3.4% TX 4.6% With the exception of AL, Oregon is the worst. Oregon ranks 34th of the states, where state number 1 (ND) has the lowest unemployment. It would seem that by the total unemployment metric where lower is better, we don't do so well. Do you realize that the proposed 2.5% sales tax requires some companies to pay the 2.5% even on sales of products outside of Oregon? These companies will not be able to pass through the cost to out of state customers because local competition won't pay such a tax. This will put Oregon companies at a disadvantage on the national stage.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
There are no exemptions or exclusions for anything. This proposal is 'take the money away from any corporation with $25Million in gross sales'. What happens next is, "Too Bad".	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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I question the motives of a few of the folks you've named, but , by golly ...pretty good list. I hope zukerberg was not in a flush of hormones or such ;). they aren't an amzing number of very wealthy but those people that are could easily afford some good works and still have plenty for their lifestyle.... I appreciate the people who have left a relative very small or no amount of money to their kids ...	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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I don't believe the authors of this initiative are interested in the details of different kinds of corporations. It's a punitive measure to punish businesses that make up the tax bases of our communities. If that's what the Democrats really want for this State, that's something that the voters should remember in the next election.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Winning is the all-time greatest cure for warts and all other unsightly sports blemishes, Nathan. Try to calm down and enjoy the ride.

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Let's see Casanova's last year was 1966 so that would be 50 years ago. It's possible. 1966 was my first year at the U of O and I don't remember seeing Old Soul there, though.

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They have certainly noticed that we aren't capable of teaching marketable skills to enough of our students to fill the high tech positions which actually pay good wages. Instead, each year about 40 thousand of them come to the US on H-1B Visas and make 6-figure salaries at Google and Microsoft etc. The liberal arts majors manage McDonalds franchises and the athletes that weren't good enough to go professional sell cars and insurance.

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If she is indicted, either for the mishandling of classified material or her sweetheart deals for donors to the Clinton Foundation while she was Sec'y of State, the comparison to RMN will definitely come to the fore.

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It's clear you've studied up on the students' reactions to the KU assistant professor's comments that landed her on interminable leave and not their content. However, what's more interesting is your willingness to parse what constitutes academic freedom of speech as it suits you. There is no war on tenure beyond what resides in your mind. There are questions being asked that upset your status quo, so it's understandable that you would not deem them to be progressive. Independence should include the freedom to address that which others might find offensive or even ugly. You're either in favor of defending free speech or you're not. Thanks for making it clear where you stand.

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It's a simple proposition: If you want more of something, make it more attractive to produce it. If you want less of something, tax it. If Oregonians want jobs, innovation, technology and good-paying manufacturing jobs, the path forward is obvious. Lower the costs of doing business. Lower the risks. Lower the costs of energy, taxes and regulation. Unfortunately, progressives and specifically Gov. Brown are doing the opposite. To drive people (or jobs) away, annoy them. Frighten them. Intimidate them. Call them names. Charge them fees and create uncertainty. Democrats are experts at all of these things. Jobs are being created in Texas, Utah, even in North Dakota (Brrrr!) and what used to be called the "Old South." How are they doing that? When Oregon makes it safe and profitable to do business here, our young people will find the jobs they need. Until then, our economy and our schools will continue to suffer.

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I'm curious, if both of your children received scholarships from private schools in Oregon, why weren't similar academic inducements offered to them to attend the state's so-called flagship university? That seems like bad business on the UO's part not to compete for in-state students, especially the children of an alum, who were being pursued by schools with higher admission standards.

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When I was a volunteer fireman and practicing in a 'burn to learn' situation, everyone laughed like loons at me when I knocked down a room with a cone of spray at the flashed over ceiling and the steam explosion blew me out the doorway! When I was on active duty firing 25 mm shells on a night exercise practice and blowing up the targets, you can bet I and my crew laughed and joked after successfully passing our Table VII test. It's what some of us do to relieve stress whether in an actual situation or a practice one. If you are doing something inherently dangerous, when it's basically over and you or one of your buddies aren't injured or dead, it is a natural reaction.

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It's interesting that the same ratio applies to the recently passed increase in the state lodging tax. Three of every four dollars it raises come from out of state, yet some Oregonians insist it's another unwarranted gouge into their wallets. The political flaw, of course, was wedding the increase to a sports extravaganza five years hence instead of making the case that it was a mostly painless way to boost Oregon's statewide tourism industry that could have used the goosing on its own merits anyway. As for the privatization of the state's public higher education system, that's been going on for longer than people have bothered to notice.

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As I expected, its an ego thing. Software has been around for a long time with many many major players. It is somewhat delusional to think that the local firms will address and capture large markets. Thousands of companies nationally and internationally are trying to identify the major markets and to get there first. One might just as well say that innovations in the wood products industry could create a unique product and have mega billion dollar consequences.

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Especially since that was back before the Legislature really abdicated any financial responsibility for the U of O and my income taxes were paying for more of it than they do today, that question tended to make me a little cranky as well. My children weren't black or native American minorities or financially disadvantaged because both I and my wife worked, so maybe all the scholarship money went to affirmative action. The non-minority middle class are the payers, not the recipients of governmental largesse, even that doled out by Duck U. I've always commented on the fact that the Asian minorities in this country aren't treated any better than the Caucasians, however. Wonder why that is; and why so many of them seem to excel in the difficult and therefore high-paying fields like math and science. The phrase 'work ethic' keeps running through my mind, though.

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"...they will help the entire community with solutions and problem solving to change the culture of our local communities." Sounds great, can you expand a little on what "solutions and problem solving" will be used to change what parts of our local culture.

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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Quote by Ronald Reagan, Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (August 15, 1986)

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Sorry to inform you of the truth but the political establishment of democrats in Oregon placed Oregon under the bus long ago. PERS was the tilling point and it's been down hill ever since. Oregon public schools F-. Outsider is it totally right "It is important for citizens understand that business will not pay any of the proposed massive tax increase. All the tax increase will be passed on to the citizens in the form of price increases". Oregon is in a slow death spiral under liberal control plain and simple with no future.

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Latest Michigan Polls, George. Looking like Trump v. Clinton more and more. "Trump has 41% among likely Republican primary voters, followed by Ted Cruz (22%), Marco Rubio (17%) and John Kasich (13%), according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. In the Michigan Democratic race, Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by 57% to 40% among likely primary voters. "Given his poll standing, Trump leads the GOP pack among almost every demographic group — men, women, Republicans, independents, moderate GOP primary voters and conservatives," NBC News reported. "He's even ahead of Cruz by one point among white evangelicals, 30% to 29%."

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Or maybe the Headline should read: “Wyden in Eugene Running for Re-election”; a whopping 30 staff members get paid an extra 50 cents over minimum to show up and hold a sign.”

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Maybe the R-G needs to hire a reporter who spends most of her/his time on the U of O beat so they have contacts over there who will let them know when information like this is released to other news media. Relying on U of O press releases doesn't seem to be doing it. The U of O is the employer who has the 2nd most employees in Eugene-Springfield, after all. The seven other big employers who are primarily supported by tax dollars are already getting their news covered.

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We are a local (native to Eugene-Springfield) "solutions provider." Simply put, entrepreneur that solves business problems (wickedly fast Wi-Fi, VO-WiFi, phones without PBX upgrades..."backbone technology solutions" that can give a competitive advantage with the right investments. This can save a company, as those forward thinkers who embrace change to become "technology enabled." As more companies...any company that seriously want to compete in the global economic environment we live in, they are now "enabled" and can grow, can hire more workers.

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And "Hillary Clinton insists immunity for staffer who set up private email is good news" LOL https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/06/hillary-clinton-insists-immunity-for-staffer-who-set-up-private-email-is-good-news/

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I'm sure that Kitty showed up for free; the rest? You might be pretty close to right on most of them.

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Our community is undergoing a rapid transformation. I cannot speak to the software development piece, but I understand it. Sometimes that is key to having a well rounded perspective on the goals and realities of getting away from relying upon timber dollars... a local culture that does run deep.... I know many loggers for example. Innovations in the wood products industries are already happening. An example could be a new buncher/feller head for heavy equipment... from an office perspective, a paper-less solution could propel a company into profitable territory. I don't see much in the way of "ego" per say... its just a different way of looking at things, so our families can benefit from folks that have a vested interest in our hometown.

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He did not call all Mexicans rapists. He did say, and it has been proven that some of the illegal aliens are indeed rapists and murders.

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I don't recall who it was, but someone mentioned something about OS was slow in making the change over from Disqus to Civil Comments because OS was in County lockup?

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Like I wrote earlier, this internet(s) thing is a wonderful tool. http://billygraham.org/answer/what-did-jesus-mean-when-he-said-the-last-would-become-first/ Billy says Jesus spoke of such.

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They want to have their fun and not have to pay for it.

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Well, for a fact the broad insinuation that voter I.D. laws must result in thousands upon thousands of poor Democrats being turned away from the polls appears completely unsubstantiated on its face - yet you have no problem trotting out this pernicious little meme to "prove" the malfeasance of Republicans. (Do you know of a single, solitary case anywhere, anytime in the last decade where a voter was turned away for lacking a picture I.D.? I've never heard of one.) Given the liberal penchants of modern-day mass media, that is simply astonishing, if it ever happens at all (let alone has had any effect on an election). Your joke *also* falls very flat - even though you fervently embrace it as truth. Thank you for sharing. :-/

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Watching someone destroy your house even if it is burning and seeing them laugh and joke while destroying it is pretty tough to swallow, all the while laboring with a boatload of benefits and guaranteed retirement, and having a two day a week work week. As I said before, the military could do this function at 1/3 of the cost. As far as the guys salary, if he is compensated so comparably, then why are there tens of thousands of applicants for every firefighting opening ?

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Good question. Another good question would be: Were the public employee union pension funds regularly paid up, all the while the Water Department went without operating expenses? :-/

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Maybe the Canadian health care system is full of problems, but your quote that "I have known a sick man who left his country [Canada]" to come to the US for medical care is virtually identical to quote from a Shona Holmes (or Lindsay McCreith) who claims the same thing. In fact, Shona was diagnosed with Rathke’s cleft cyst, which is benign and "not typically life-threatening," according to the Mayo Clinic." Silverhorn, I doubt you ever knew such a person as you claim. Instead I believe you are quoting (on purpose or inadvertently) from an ad produced by Americans for Prosperity, a Right Wing, corporate funded mouthpiece that churns out arguments so that anti-government conservatives have talking points. It's even from 2009, meaning 7 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_Holmes_health_care_incident

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I know exactly how it will affect them, and us.

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I love how a few tech businesses spending money on a marketing campaign is supposed to improve livability downtown. Really? How much more could be accomplished if they just donated the time and money they spent on all this directly to the needy? I'm all for community building, but it's completely fatuous for local tech companies to act like they're making meaningful change via marketing. Clearly, they just want a reason to talk about themselves. How's that not an ego thing?

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he was driving illegally. If he had obeyed our laws he wouldn't be dead. it doesn't matter alcohol was not the reason he died. What matters is he was driving intoxicated and shouldn't have been on the road in the first place.

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Gary Crum seems to have a problem with how other people spend their money.

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Sorry. The gentleman in question is a former colleague of mine, at the time an adjunct professor at a Colorado university. He and his wife have business offices in Ottawa (the Canadian connection). He had some sort of glial growth that required shooting high-energy radiation into his brainstem - a rather hairy procedure, which, fortunately, worked, in that he survived the treatment and is still with us. I take no offense. I appreciate that your skepticism is the product of the pernicious and cynical age in which we live. To be sure, I feel somewhat the same way about the lurid tales of droves of Democrats being driven away from the polls because they lack photo I.D., although (oddly enough) no one ever produces witnesses, reliable news reports, or names names. :-/ Thank you for sharing.

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yup. just like if he had thc in his system while driving. what the death certificate says doesn't count

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Good. Jump in there Betsy Johnson too. The more, the merrier.

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You should show him the links.

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While I noticed his fairly late arrival, I missed that allegation. I just figured he was vacationing on his private island in the Caribbean.

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I believe, based on huffingtonpost.com/senate-gop ... of feb 14, 2016 (my mouse is dying - no copy/ paste) the GOP has no intention of trying to work with Obama on seating anyone. I think they are determined to obstruct the functioning of federal government deliberately by dragging their heels on fulfilling a legislative duty.

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As was first done on someone nominated by John Quincy on December 18, 1828. The Senate postponed the vote on his confirmation, by a vote of 23–17, on February 12, 1829. The Senate did not explicitly vote to "postpone indefinitely", but the resolution did have that effect. He was never actually given an up or down vote.

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Age 66 and he's driving drunk, no wonder he died behind the wheel. He already had two strikes against him. Any additional factor, like a piece of debris or a wheel on the road, and he's not going to be able to respond adequately. People really need to stop thinking that driving is something that can be done in such a careless manner.

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Point taken.... I'll just ask what other new angles are being developed and deployed that are successful? The private sector is stepping up to help...and not all marketing costs money. For example, many of the companies involved in Hack For A Cause DONATED thousands of dollars in services and products in an effort to help SOLVE problems-I don't see that as completely fatuous (silly and pointless)... we offer our services for many non-profit efforts to make our community more habitable for everyone. That to me is not "ego," its "paying it forward" and lifting all boats with that tide... that tide has arrived.

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Then Wyden's gum-flapping, Kitty's lap-sitting and the scrubbed-and-waxed appearance by the young mannequins for a bluer Oregon were just another photo op and had nothing to do with fulfilling any duty, legislative or otherwise. Kudos to the detail-oriented operative careful enough to include the registered trademark symbol on the home-made posters.

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If they aren't finding the lifestyle diseases in our local health picture, they're certainly not looking very hard. I've never lived anywhere with so many apparently pregnant men, many seemingly months beyond term. (Don't even talk about the enormous storage vessels of reduced carbon that are the females hereabouts; we don't want to damage anyone's body image.) While our total population is relatively young, owing to the presence of the UO, I'd like to see a breakdown of the incidence of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer among the residents with access to screening for such lifestyle diseases who are also over the age of forty. I suspect it wouldn't look good. Meanwhile, we're becoming an ever more sedentary culture locally. To a reasonable round-off error, no one from the suburbs goes anywhere without their motorized couch and it's not much better inside the city limits as we are losing cyclists and pedestrians by the day.

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Wish he had stayed in Yakima Washington. The Dalles Chronicle , Feb 19, 2014 "Oregon State Police arrest: #Flavio Renteria Robledo, 18, Yakima, Wash., was arrested Tuesday afternoon during a traffic stop on Interstate 84 eastbound, milepost 94 and is accused of unlawful possession of marijuana, unlawful delivery of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance."

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This is purely in reference to your comment about job creation. "In 2015, private-sector employment in North Dakota fell by 18,700 jobs, an average of 1,560 jobs per month" http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/1058e7a6-7035-4f15-9e8b-11441634acf0/north-dakota.pdf "In 2015, private-sector employment in Oregon grew by 41,100 jobs, an average of 3,420 jobs per month." http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/82e63fa4-5745-4652-84a3-9837b72bce7a/oregon.pdf "In 2015, private-sector employment in Alabama grew by 20,300 jobs, an average of 1,690 jobs per month." "In 2015, private-sector employment in Utah grew by 39,100 jobs, an average of 3,260 jobs per month" "In 2015, private-sector employment in Texas grew by 141,300 jobs, an average of 11,770 jobs per month" I think Oregon is doing quite well. Utah is slightly better on a per population basis, otherwise Oregon is doing better than these (these are all I looked at) on a per population basis.

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It would be an interesting study to see how much a new appointment has shifted the court versus the person they replace, with some sub study of this kind of situation (liberal President, conservative Justice and vice versa). I'm sure there is rarely an exact copy picked for the replacement, but I do think the previous person's positions may influence the choice a bit. Frankly, if I were part of the GOP leadership I would factor in the possibility that the next President could be Clinton or Sanders, and if a Republican, could be Trump, and think about voting for someone in the center if nominated. The first two could put forth a series of liberal nominees with a full 4 years in their term, and Trump is unpredictable.

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Are those tens of thousands of applicants applying for Fire Chief like this guy was?

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I'm so proud! This group of Ducks deserves it. They are both as classy and as hard working as their coach. Has anyone, anywhere worked as hard as Elgin Cook over the past 5 games? Great effort Ducks! Great work Ducks! Now pack your lunch buckets men and get back to work. Congrats!

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Large Corporations like Planned Parenthood need to protect their assets. (In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, total revenue was $1.3 billion. Planned Parenthood receives above a third of its money in government grants and contracts (about $528 million in 2014). During the 2014 election cycle, Planned Parenthood spent $6,587,100 on contributions to candidates and political parties and on independent expenditures Wonder how much of that $6.5 million went to Senator Wyden?

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Considering the abysmal current status of the U of O, as revealed in part by those posting here, and the AAU discussion about kicking the U of O out of their system, Stanford was clearly a much better place to invest ones' money. The Governor and the legislators who have been bought by Nike are the ones who have chosen to fund the track boondoggle with tax dollars.

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The likelihood that the "Technology Association of Oregon in the southern Willamette Valley" is going to turn Eugene into the new Silicon Valley or even the new Silicon Forest, is right up there with the odds that the kid in the garage next door to me is the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

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I've previously suggested that all fast food emporiums should be required to have scales capable of determining Body Mass Indexes. When you went in to order you would get on the scale and enter height, age and gender. If the meal you ordered exceeded 1/3 of 1800 calories based on your BMI, a BMI siren would go off and a loud voice would intone "Hog Body! Hog Body! Hog Body!" You would then be fined for the excess calories when you continued with your purchase with the proceeds going to support direct community medical costs.

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As a scientist and technologist, your hype does not work on me. Wi-Fi standards and speeds are adopted by industry-wide standards groups. There is zero problem in electronically configuring a multi-gigabit WiFi product. Trouble is it will not be in conformance to national standards and will not sell. WiFi bandwidth is set by standards and FCC communications bandwidth decisions not by technology. Any tech innovators here in Eugene are going to face insanely intense competition from companies around the globe. Many industries locally could grow through addressing large markets from organic food to jewelry. They should receive as much attention as the downtown tech start-ups.

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yeah, maybe all those people were doing just as you say....or maybe they actually believe that other people have rights equal to those that want to play this political game. right to life exec director atteberry is going to take what kind of position of this? surprised?. curious...what "detail-oriented operative' was careful enough to include the registered trademark symbol on the home made posters"? . frankly, I could do those at home...the equipment isn't all that rare of hard to operate....legal requirement to use the trademark symbol in a name that is trademarked.

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Catherine endorses the notion of controlling individual behavior that is perceived as disrespectful. Once that endorsement is made, once it is accepted that individuals must tow the politically correct line, we cannot fault a group for their PC decisions. If those at the college find sombreros objectionable, who is Catherine or anyone else to object. The principle of forcing individuals to conform to PC notions as in "black face" is established. I think most Americans, if asked privately whether wearing black make-up was unacceptable would say no. The media on the other hand has decided that black make-up is a social no-no. Not because it is physically offensive but because they feel, what, that whites have no right to enjoy emulating those with natural black pigment? What the media proclaims often has little to do with what many Americans think. That is why Trump is popular. We are tired of the media controlling us.

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I can think of one liberal billionaire - Richard branson...he's british and probably doesn't give a rip about us except for financially and business dealings. who else can you think of? billionaire and liberal don't often get put together in that context.

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The Iran nuclear deal was acquiescence in whatever Iran wanted to get a deal for Obama's legacy. Iran's continuing efforts in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen to continue proxy wars against Sunni countries and organizations will only result in more death and destruction. Satisfying Obama's ego will be the only lasting effect. Your other two points are well-taken.

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You can round up the usual suspects on both sides, but only one decided he needed some local face time to create even a slight blip in the news cycle. As another poster called it, this was just a Wyden campaign kickoff rally masquerading as ... well, a Wyden campaign kickoff rally, except for all the stern faces of rehearsed urgency lined up in perfect rows. Makes you wonder how much was spent on security to keep those 30 from breathing too heavily in the senator's direction. Speaking of equipment that isn't hard to operate, any chance you'll solve the mystery of the "Shift" key soon, or are you a living homage to e.e cummings?

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It's a calculated risk for both sides, and there are probably some helpful think tanks and more than a few grad/law students cranking out papers on the subject from each perspective. Wyden comes off as a silly opportunist with his manufactured sense of urgency that didn't exist until Scalia assumed room temperature. If he's wants to scold Republicans for being obstructionists, fire away, but pandering to his home-state base like this makes him look even less consequential than usual, if that's possible.

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Until high level nuclear waste can safely be disposed of (perhaps by launching it into our local star, often referred to as The Sun), nuclear power's lasting dangerous residue makes it a poor choice as an energy source. Democratic Senator Reid, while Majority Leader of the Senate, defunded the multi-billion dollar storage site in Nevada in 2010 supposedly for that very reason. Japan has closed every nuclear power plant which used to provide 30% of Japan's power. Europe's nuclear energy programs are in a mixed stage of new proposals which are over budget, decommissioning and upgrades of existing plants. They have yet to come up with a safe disposal location for high level waste. They are talking about sending low-level waste (like that sent to Yucca Mountain Nevada in 2014) to somewhere in Eastern Europe. When you have things that are going to be dangerous for 15.7 million years (Iodine-129) or two million years (Neptunium-237) being optimistic is not an option.

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I just want to clear up an opinion some of you might have regarding PPS maintenance workers. The reason it appears that we don't work, or have a gravy job is because we have a Sr. Manager telling us that we have to "do things half assed." Don't get me wrong, there are a fair share of lazy workers, but the majority of us want to do good work and be able to take pride in our work. It's just extremely hard to do that when your manager won't allow you the materials or time to do it.

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re the caps issue ..............LOL... it always makes me laugh when this bottom of the barrel observation comes up in regards to my post. basically, I think its a bothersome non-essential thing. I have a hard enough time hitting the correct keys as it is....don't need the added challenge of finding ANOTHER key. are you having a hard time understanding stuff because of it? does a cap mean anything except a few random "rules" are being followed? to what end? who decided capital letters should be used in the first place? maybe i'm just a rebel and maybe i'm in the vanguard of a new world order in written communication. think about it....

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Oh good! KVAL now has this story on its newscast. It being Sunday, the R-G has no one capable of doing the cut-and-paste from the AP Wire so R-G customers can have the same information. Other than this hobby, what am I paying $22.00 per month for? The comics?

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Hopefully this tax has an exclusion for S-corp businesses owned by a family as all profits are passed through on a K-1 to the individual's income and taxed as personal income already. Imposing a tax on these small single individual / family businesses is essentially taxing them twice! I'd simply shut down my S-corp and go to some other tax entity if that's the case though it would be unnecessarily time consuming. Also, keep in mind that if a business is selling goods that can also be purchased online the price difference could be enough to cause them to lose more buyers to internet purchases.

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Or maybe it's just a different style of arrogance. "I'm too (important) (special) (intelligent)(all of the above) to follow societal rules" Look at me, "I'm unique". (just like everyone else).

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The public sector unions sponsoring this sales tax wouldn't know a Subchapter-S corporation if it bit them on their ankles. They know "Union Good". "Corporation Bad". "'Corporations' have lots of money". "Union workers need money for PERS and salary increases." "Take money". "Poor people and old people suffer. Too bad. Union workers need money." Repeat.

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even in it's heyday with the auto industry running their crossroads of commercial transport position, flint was always a rough and tough city. dingy and hard scrabble. the shipping on the great lakes is nowhere near as busy as it used to be. there isn't the mass amounts of lumber or cars or manufactured goods going east and west to shipping ports. that was flints life blood... It has been low rent for some time.

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yes on the e.e. cummins question. but more just..why?

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or just not really caring. I got bigger things to worry about. i'm on this stinkin'computer all the time. i'm not gonna spend more time hunting down keys... does it really matter? really? it seems to matter to you - who made this capital thing up anyway?

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or maybe i'm being sarcastic

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I was a software engineer for over twenty years, so I am capable of understanding what this writer is saying.. yet I can't see a single thing of lasting value that was created here, with the possible exception of a prototype for a downtown kiosk system. However, I do see the writer asking for the city to build a multimillion dollar high-speed fiber network. Perhaps that is the point.

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Sheesh, Kitty Piercy says she's worried about "extremism". What does she think Eugene has endured the last 12 years?!

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Sarcastic. ADJECTIVE 1.marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt. Nah! I'll go with Arrogant: ADJECTIVE 1.having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.

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I hope the new UO president continues to clean house and rid the university of its many bad players. She should have been fired with cause the day "the list" was shown to exist, before she could retaliate against the one good cop the university had

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Most gun dealers wait until the background check is approved but there are plenty who will transfer after waiting the minimum 3 days wait following a delay. Pressure from the Oregon Firearms Federation is part of it. The truth is that most delayed background checks are resolved in hours or within a matter of days. It is rare for a check to take more than 30 days. If the purchaser wants to know why their check is delayed, OSP will tell them exactly why so the people who claim it's an arbitrary process are being disingenuous.

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If you think unemployment is high now, just wait for additional increased taxes on small S corporate business or even large corporation. There is nothing to stop Boeing and Nike from leaving the State, both companies have divisions that can transfer the same work out of the State of Oregon.

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Police agencies, like the military, have and need higher standards than the civilian world. Failure to enforce those standards by the leadership sets new and always lower standards down the chain of command. Without those standards, you wind up with armed thugs instead of societal protectors. Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Portland, Oregon. It's always more obvious in the larger cities, but the principle exists all the way down to one-officer towns.

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Good gracious, man. Don't confuse the poor darlings with facts. Those things have a well-known liberal bias. I'll just add that if we want to attract the kinds of businesses that have been fuelling the economic powerhouse to the south of us, we need to raise our quality of life game: schools, rail and other public transit, recreation (we're pretty good here, but our environmental law enforcement and traffic law enforcement is holding us back) and such. Doing that will take some tax increases. I expect a number of people to move to Nevada as a result. Enjoy your new digs.

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Michael Bloomberg? Mark Zuckerberg? George Soros? Tom Steyer? Even Bill Gates ... whose foundation already is pretty generous to PP, if I understand correctly. And surely Oprah, Nancy P., and any number of wealthy women from the worlds of politics and entertainment could stand to contribute a few tens of millions to The Cause, if they really wanted to. :-/

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Reply. Me, too.

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Holy shit, this article is way too casually written. Phenibut can ruin your life with its severe withdrawal. Adrafinil can completely transform your personality, making you antisocial and self-absorbed.

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Employment in ND has dropped because of the collapse of oil prices. The other numbers represent a single year and it has been said that Oregon lagged on the recovery from the 2008 economic slump. To be useful, we need employment over several years and other figures like unemployment rate etc. Here are the unemployment rates ( http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm ): ND 2.7% OR 5.5% AL 6.3% UT 3.4% TX 4.6% With the exception of AL, Oregon is the worst. Oregon ranks 34th of the states, where state number 1 (ND) has the lowest unemployment. It would seem that by the total unemployment metric where lower is better, we don't do so well. Do you realize that the proposed 2.5% sales tax requires some companies to pay the 2.5% even on sales of products outside of Oregon? These companies will not be able to pass through the cost to out of state customers because local competition won't pay such a tax. This will put Oregon companies at a disadvantage on the national stage.

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There are no exemptions or exclusions for anything. This proposal is 'take the money away from any corporation with $25Million in gross sales'. What happens next is, "Too Bad".

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See KGW news "Portland Couple Demands Arts Tax Refund."

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I'm not "liberal", I'm a working-class radical leftist (if only in the US political context). I don't want what you want and we are not on the same team. No sale.

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I question the motives of a few of the folks you've named, but , by golly ...pretty good list. I hope zukerberg was not in a flush of hormones or such ;). they aren't an amzing number of very wealthy but those people that are could easily afford some good works and still have plenty for their lifestyle.... I appreciate the people who have left a relative very small or no amount of money to their kids ...

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Amusing when even the Democrats run scurrying away from a tax increase. That should give everyone pause for thought.

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Research and experience elsewhere has shown that providing housing to the homeless actually saves money that would be otherwise spent on courts, jails, ERs, cleaning up homeless camps, etc.

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I don't believe the authors of this initiative are interested in the details of different kinds of corporations. It's a punitive measure to punish businesses that make up the tax bases of our communities. If that's what the Democrats really want for this State, that's something that the voters should remember in the next election.

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