10. I will have a wildly successful year, dadgummit!
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My Top 10 Predictions for 2008
Posted inOpinion
Get Big Business Out of Health Care
The United States "health care" system is a national disgrace. Two changes in the current "Privatized For Profit" mess would guarantee a fair and just system of health care for everyone from womb to tomb.
First…insurance companies must be totally excluded from the health care system. Insurance companies must not be allowed to insure people capitalizing on health problems to reap enormous profits. Insurance companies must be restricted exclusively to insuring property, not people.
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Video & photos: Back Door Slam & Smokin’ Trainwreck
Back Door Slam’s Davy Knowles, cold workin’ it.Much like Costco and Burger King, the Blender Shakycam Alliance always brings you more of what you want — bonus photos and video clips of your favorite hometown and worldwide artists rockin’ and/or rollin’ local venues. Use them to torture yourself for missing the show, or to reinforce the sweet memories if you did make it in person. Either way, you win. Everyone knows sweet memories and torture are equally awesome.
Read on for the goods. This week we bring you video and photos of Back Door Slam — plus photos of Smokin’ Trainwreck — from their January 7 performances at the Domino Room.
P.S. Leave a comment at the bottom if you think this stuff sucks, rules, or something in between. (Or if you just have a proclamation, pronouncement or poem you need to get off your chest.)
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Property Rights and Property Wrongs
As Oregon's "Big Look" task force resumes its job of re-evaluating the state's land use regulations, it might want to take a close look at a couple of new studies that seem to shoot holes in the accepted (well, accepted among conservatives) view that the state's land use regulations have depressed property values and made property owners into paupers.
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Bigotry’s Last Gasp?
Gay and lesbian couples in Oregon suffered a setback at year's end when a federal judge in Portland, in response to an appeal by an anti-gay religious coalition, delayed implementation of the state's new domestic partnership act for at least a month. Hundreds of gays and lesbians protested, but blogger Kristin Flickinger on BlueOregon saw it as a teaching opportunity.
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Mugged by Wal-Mart
Erickson's Thriftway Market is closing after 50 years of operation in downtown Redmond, and management is blaming it on the new Wal-Mart "Superstore" that opened on the edge of town in September. The news prompted some musings from Duncan McGeary, Pegasus Books proprietor, blogger and philosopher.
Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides
Light Meter
Welcome to Light Meter, the Source Weekly’s interactive photo feature. Here’s how to participate:
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Oh yeah…vids & pics: Bill Keale, CPC and Problem Stick
Sorry for inconveniencing and/or enraging those of you who expected a prompt posting of the photos and videos mentioned in this week’s Sound Check. You see, we have a very good excuse: We forgot to do it. Four-day holiday weekends’ll do that sometimes, gawd bless’m. Anyway, read on for the footages of Bill Keale, Concave Perception Chamber and Problem Stick at the Summit Saloon & Stage.
Posted inOpinion
Mining Snow for Gold
We are informed the city has busted the bank, shot its wad, ejaculated prematurely … spent all the budget money because, you know, the housing boom will go on forever, right?
Critical services such as planning, snow removal (huh?) and law enforcement are facing severe cutbacks, so much so the city police recently announced delaying the anticipated hiring of additional critically needed patrol officers. With that in mind, I have a modest proposal:
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Honolulu, We Have a Problem: From soothing to raw in four hours
Jim Stout in CPC rawkstar mode.The streets and sidewalks sparkled with the crystalline potential of
new fallen snow last Thursday night. Downtown, tourists and taxicabs
flitted about like carefree winter butterflies - many searching for the
fantastical fun-juice that is the nectar of Central Oregon's homegrown
live music scene.
The fortunate and/or savvy found their quarry
at Summit Saloon and Stage. There, the evening's entertainment began
with long-haired, bright-hearted Bill Keale setting meditative notes
adrift from the upstairs romper room.