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13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Oregon AG race was maj... · 0 replies · +6 points

well I don't spend lot of time being liberal, or a lot of time worrying about pot laws, but Holton was a knothead.
The atty general ought to know something about Oregon laws and Oregon courts, and Ellen nailed it when
she observed that Holten had never tried a case in an Oregon state court.

He's a carpetbagger who swooped in in who is neither a native of Oregon nor even had a real job other than
working for the federal government. here in Oregon. What Ellen has is at least some understanding of how Oregon laws work-----an important attribute for an Attorney General.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Washington Co. light r... · 0 replies · +1 points

Trimet: a classic example of an arrogant public agency accountable to no one. There ought to be widespread public support for new building projects, or they shouldn't happen. The barbur blvd project change barbur
from how it's been in a radical sort of way. That shouldn't be done without strong public support.

13 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Compromise sought in N... · 0 replies · +5 points

this is pretty dumb rule. The way it reads they can't even say "welcome to Scappoose"
because "Scappoose" is the name of a tribe, as well as the school district and the city.

the doormat in the photo is literally true. The town and the school are located on or very near ancestral hunting grounds of "the Scappoose".

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Monitoring tower could... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hogwash---it's a 60 foot pole behind the employee bunkhouse.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Portland residents get... · 0 replies · +3 points

IT really hollers for a change of policy. we aren't talking about people who are not connected to the sewer now. Or about people who are polluting, or likely to pollute. We are talking about sewer pipes whose locations are in creative places instead of in straight lines like the city would prefer.

This is truely spending money to fix something that isn't broken.---and a lotof it.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Portland residents get... · 0 replies · +2 points

I am completely unable to understand the city having a fit over these 'non conforming' designs.
they are hooked to the sewer, they are not causing a problem. In a perfect world they would be different, but we don't have a perfect world with unlilmited resources.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - County to explore heat... · 1 reply · +2 points

Someone is smoking something again. Someone ought to figure out how much wood a wood fired boiler of this size will burn, and figure out how much space it takes to store that much fire wood, and how many trucks it will take to haul it. Anyone with a wood stove knows that you get warm twice with wood heat---once from the fire and once cutting and packing the wood.

These guys dream of using twigs and limbs and not even solid wood. It's hard to even roast a marshmellow with that.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Car charging stations ... · 0 replies · +1 points

not a prayer.----those things take industrial grade 3 phase electric services. Utilities will have to
build line extensions of 3 phase service to location sites at costs likely in 6 figures. Somebody is going to pay big to cover that cost and who ever it is is going to want to recover it. Minimum service to charge 1 car at a time would be a 200 amp 220 volt 3 phase electric service, and if the ability to charge more than one car is going to be designed in---it will either need to be a 440 volt service or a 400 amp service.

Utilities don't even have the capacity to provide this sort of service except around industrial or heavily urbanized areas.

When you dial up your local utility and tell them you want a 3 phase service heavy enough to run a rock crusher in the middle of nowhere along I-5 which will be used for 30 minutes once in a while, don't expect them to waive the hook up fees.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Car charging stations ... · 0 replies · 0 points

expect charges to be $50 or a $100, ---or big tax payer hand outs because the costs will be there. These quick chargers require industrial grade 3 phase electric services which generally are not available in rural areas
without a lot of construction, and the 'demand charges' for such hi-capacity installations will be out of site.

Utilility line extensions for these services will be in the 6 figures and some one is going to have to pay.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Writer files assault c... · 0 replies · +3 points

Yeah, if he were the street corner vendor down the street, he would be making license plates by now. As for thewoman in NY.---just because of the possiblity that she may be an illegal alien, a bookie, or a drug dealer doesn't and shouldn't provide a get out of jail free card to rapists.

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