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KATU - Portland, OR : Woman accused of Ore. tax fraud was issued $2.1M debit card | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 20:18:58 +0000

The only way you can get a refund is when you OVERPAID your taxes. If she didn't actually make $2.1 million in contributions OVER the proper amount of taxes on more than $3 million in income, why would they have refunded anything? This just doesn't make sense at all.

KATU - Portland, OR : Olshey gets right to work as Blazers GM | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traff

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 05:56:25 +0000

It means he began working immediately.

KATU - Portland, OR : Reynolds district, teachers still at impasse | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports,

Thu, 24 May 2012 04:31:02 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You stated so well what so many of us are thinking. Excellent job!

KATU - Portland, OR : Man walks into police station, says he robbed bank | News | Gresham News

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:38:50 +0000

Somebody who just wanted three hots and a cot on someone else's dime?

KATU - Portland, OR : Sandy police ask for help identifying rape suspect | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sp

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:01:58 +0000

Police Artists always sign their name and put the case ID number and police department on the sketch. Additionally, the sketch is now evidence. All evidence gets tagged with case number, police department, and identifies somehow the person who collected the information.

KATU - Portland, OR : Police searching for elderly-looking man who robbed Oak Grove bank | Local & Regional | KATU.com - P

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:56:00 +0000

KATU - Any chance you can post a larger photo so that we can actually see the man's face?

KATU - Portland, OR : Four Oregon mail sorting centers closing | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traf

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:43:56 +0000

Salem $5.8 Million / 77 people = $75,324 each Bend $2.1 Million / 17 people = 123,529 each Eugene $4.4 Million / 68 people = 64,705 each Pendleton $555,837 / 2 people = 277,918 each

KATU - Portland, OR : Washington looking to make Oregonians pay sales tax | Politics | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, T

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:03:40 +0000

This sounds pretty short-sighted to me. I would venture to say that most times the sales tax is not being paid by Oregonians is when an Oregonian purposefully goes across the river to make a purchase. If you start charging them 8.25% more for their purchase, that will stop. That means the state won't be able to charge them 8.25% sales tax AND the seller won't make their $1.00 in sales. Remember - for every $18 million the state & city lose in sales taxes, the businesses of Washington make more than $218 million in sales. This is, quite predictably, going to hurt the state of Washington, and the city of Vancouver in particular.

KATU - Portland, OR : Caught on camera: Police fire shotgun, stun gun to end standoff | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Port

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:40:26 +0000

I am not making my own story up. As I stated in my post, "the fable" I just posted was gathered strictly from the facts of the link to the KATU story Portlandborn83 had included. I used the facts in his linked story - and only the facts in that post. If the facts in that story were true, then I stand by my assesment. If KATU's story was wrong, your beef should be with them, not with me for using their information. (Note - Portlandborn83 who dislikes the PPB actions in the previous case linked to that story without any comments about its inaccuracy). Finally - I have not read the links you posted, but I did read the quotes you posted. None of them contradict the five points (a through e) that I posted - facts reported in the KATU article.

KATU - Portland, OR : Caught on camera: Police fire shotgun, stun gun to end standoff | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Port

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:16:05 +0000

This woman was armed with a knife and the police were able to maintain a safe distance. She did not try to breach that distance or make moves to threaten the police. Their use of non-lethal force was effective in subduing her. Aaron Campbell, on the other hand, according to the facts of the story you linked to, was (a) suicidal, (b) had a gun in the apartment, (c) left the gun in the apartment when he came out, (d) made aggressive motions toward the officers in an attempt to get them to kill him, and (e) when he realized they were going to respond with non-lethal force began to run back to his place of concealment where he had left his firearm. Non-lethal force was deployed but was not effective in subduing him. Instead, Mr. Campbell attempted to get behind concealment and obtain a weapon. In my opinion, the police officers were justified in escalating their level of response to lethal force in order to prevent him from getting that gun, as there was an extremely high chance he was going to use it on them or someone else in an attempt to get the police to kill him.

KATU - Portland, OR : Genealogy brings new twist to cold case murder of Fed Way teen | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portl

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:28:22 +0000

I must be missing something. Robert Fuller lived almost 400 years ago in Salem. Generations later Rober Fuller's descendants must have many last names. At 25 years per generation, we're talking 15 generations of people, all of whom branched out, women marrying men and taking their names. What are the odds his last name is Fuller? Seems slim to me. How can they say that "toa high degree of probability, his last name is Fuller"?

KATU - Portland, OR : Police kill armed teenage student at Texas middle school | National & World News | KATU.com - Portla

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:32:03 +0000

15 and in the 8th grade?

KATU - Portland, OR : One person killed in crash with semi on Columbia Boulevard | Transportation | Northeast Portland New

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:29:26 +0000

Actually, "semi" is a perfectly acceptable term used to refer to both the truck and semi-trailer combined. Since you're citing Wikipedia, I will too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer_truck): "A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi.... Colloquial terms for semi-trailer truck include truck and trailer, transfer truck, 18-wheeler, semi, Mack truck (named for a prominent brand), big rig (US), transport (Canada), artic (UK and Ireland), lorry (UK)."

KATU - Portland, OR : Bicyclists at odds over bike-safety advertisement | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Spo

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:36:40 +0000

@ChingonWaffles - what a bunch of hogwash. Drivers of cars are not "Scared by what [we] are unfamiliar with." We're scared that we're going to be driving along minding the rules of the road and some idiot on a bicycle is going to blow through a stop sign and get creamed by our multi-thousand pound vehicle. Simply remding bicyclists to drive responsibly and defensively is a very reasonable thing to do. Don't get your panites in a bunch over it.

KATU - Portland, OR : Suspicious bags close part of Portland International Airport | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portlan

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 23:19:05 +0000

The picture looks as if the officer is preventing people from walking outside the baggage claim area. It's possible the bags were left on the curb, in which case they never made it to the TSA inspection area.

KATU - Portland, OR : For parents and kids alike, 9/11 left its imprints | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sp

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:34:51 +0000

I don't consider not letting a 5-year old fly half-way across the country by herself being over-protective. If that's their best example they could come up with, then I'm not sure the title fits for Mr. Rand. Now the folks in Sandy, OR - they're a completely different story. Those kids are going to miss out on a heck of a lot of stuff in this world. In their case, they let Osama Bin Laden win. Too bad.

KATU - Portland, OR : Deputy crashes patrol car into bar | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weather and Breaking

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:00:27 +0000

You really don't understand how insurance works, do you? First, the Multnomah County is probably self-insured, in which case they'll pay the whole thing. If they do have an insurance company for this instance, they will pay in the form of deductibles and higher insurance rates. An insurance company works by spreading the risk around a larger group of people. So, whether it's through higher taxes or through higher insurance premiums, or a combination of the two, we all still end up paying. Insurance does not equal free. Of course, another 'cost' of this incident is that this deputy was unable to intervene in the domestic dispute that he/she was dispatched to. Which means at a minimum someone else had to be dispatched, which allowed the dispute to go on for a longer period of time, which brought about a greater risk of injury or death to one or both participants in the dispute.

KATU - Portland, OR : Deputies swoop in, bust Gresham meth lab in final stages of production | Crime | Gresham News

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:56:37 +0000

Annexing Rockwood was one of the worst moves Gresham ever made. We should have left it to Portland to annex.

KATU - Portland, OR : Man penetrates JFK airport security with fake ID, expired ticket | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports,

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:35:31 +0000

"'Every passenger that passes through security checkpoints is subject to many layers of security including thorough physical screening at the checkpoint,' Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule said." That's supposed to make us feel better? Every passenger is also supposed to go through thorough document screening before going through physical screening, as well as before being allowed to board the aircraft. Neither of those document screenings worked so why should we we believe the physical screening did?

KATU - Portland, OR : Kyron investigation to transition to more technical focus | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffi

Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:02:31 +0000

Because if, as many people suspect is the case, Terri murdered Kyron, then "bringing Kyron home" would be secondary to removing a child murderer from society, so that whe won't have the opportunity to do it again.