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In case you didn’t watch last night’s GOP presidential debate, here was a highlight (or lowlight if you’re a Rick Perry fan).
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I wrote extensively in this week’s paper about the move in Central Oregon — and throughout the state — to test the waters for a ballot measure that would negate 2004’s Measure 36, the move that defined marriage in our state constitution as between a man and a woman.
Well, as it turns out, Basic Rights Oregon, the group that would be heading up the effort, announced just today that they will not be placing a marriage equality measure on the 2012 general election ballot.
On this morning’s Think Out Loud on OPB, Portland Mayor Sam Adams was on the program to discuss the next steps for the Occupy Portland movement, which has come under fire for drug and alcohol abuse, among other problems, in recent days.
Adams recently sent an open letter to Occupy Portland, but took questions from Think Out Loud about how the city will deal with the next phase — whatever it may be — of Occupy Portland.
Author’s note: Since we published this story, Basic Rights Oregon announced that after a careful study, their board has voted unanimously to not place a measure on the 2012 ballot. You can read more about their decision and see a statement from the board right here.
Bruce Morris knows that he might be one of the least likely people to be advocating for same sex marriage. For one, he's straight. Also, he's married and, between him and his wife, has four grown children and he's a big, bearded dude. Still, he's the new executive director of the Human Dignity Coalition, a Bend-based organization that advocates for, among other things, equality for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals in the community.
Again, he's an unlikely warrior for gay rights and he knows this. It's a question he gets a lot and one that might elicit a laugh from the former lawyer who first came to Bend in the late 1990s.
“I get that a fair amount and, my response is that I have seen over the course of my life a lot of injustice. It bothered me tremendously and I decided at some point that I didn't want to continue working in a way that was enabling at least environmental injustice,” says Morris.
The “environmental injustice” he mentions refers to his time working as an attorney, primarily representing Texas oil refineries. With a law degree from Baylor and a master's of law from Columbia, Morris' legal career was in full swing while he was living in Austin, Texas, but the pull to work for social justice was nagging at him. When he and his wife moved to Oregon, he eventually made a career shift, working for Basic Rights Oregon, a statewide LGBT rights organization and, more recently, the Rural Organizing Project.
But it won’t hit us, so you don’t need to get all Deep Impact quite yet. NASA has promised us that much.
Tomorrow night, reggae/hip-hop innovator Collie Buddz is set to light up the Domino Room, and wouldn’t ya know it, we have some free tickets to give away.
The show is set for tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 8pm and the opening lineup includes Gappy Ranks, New Kingston and Medium Troy.
Only in New York? Probably not. I mean, iphones fall out of pockets all the time. Unscrupulous skids looking to make a buck are everywhere. Thanks, Village Voice, for jumping on this.
Get comfortable, this is probably the longest missed connection you’ll ever indulge in.
From a Manhattan Craigslist post, reprinted here:
I first spoke to you on my girlfriend’s phone, Halloween night, 2011. I don’t know how it happened but somehow, my iPhone had slipped out of my back pocket and was missing. I’d noticed this, sitting in the back of The Skinny on Orchard and Stanton, and had immediately sprinted back to Pianos, thinking that I might’ve left my phone by the upstairs bar. You answered my phone after many a frantically-placed call, made from my girlfriend’s phone, and informed me that you were in a cab but you could come back to where I was to return my phone. You also informed me that my mother had called my phone and, upon learning that you had it and were in a taxi headed back to where I was, had offered to pick up the fare. You then hinted, much less subtly, that you expected further “compensation,” as you put it. I assented to the idea, reasoning that whatever small bit of cash I had on me was worth the safe return of my iPhone.
Opponents of the city’s surface water project have grown into a who’s who of local business and political interests. Now they’re taking their case directly to the Bend City Council.
Our immense and easily accessible trail system here in Bend is pretty awesome.
Show you appreciation by getting out there tomorrow with the Central Oregon Trail Alliance to work on the trails you use on the daily.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog returns to Conan, and this time he’s going after the Occupy Wall Street protesters AND the Wall Street bankers in the funniest ten minutes you’re going to see all day (for you to poop on).
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