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Friday, April 30, 2010

All you need to read

Posted at 11:35 PM | Permalink

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I have the feeling that Homer and I would disagree on the definition of the word "balance".

Posted by John Rettig | May 1, 2010 12:58 AM

If I were Homer Williams, I'd crawl into a hole somewhere far away. And if I were Dan Saltzman, I might take Homer's money, but I'd get as far away from him as possible. The fact that these two guys are still going with this line confirms that there's something seriously wrong in our city.

Posted by Jack Bog | May 1, 2010 1:05 AM

depends on what his definition of is is

Posted by Anthony | May 1, 2010 2:30 AM

OMG, That is what my mother would call hutzpah. That is like Monica Lewinsky endorsing Bill Clinton because he is such a father figure.

Posted by Anthony | May 1, 2010 7:27 AM

Balance is Homer taking the profits if the deal works and the city taking the losses if they don't. Kind of like GM/CITI/AIG but on local scale.

Posted by Mister Tee | May 1, 2010 7:29 AM

"Dan Saltzman is a leader"

You lost me after that.

Posted by Steve | May 1, 2010 8:10 AM

Dan Saltzman is not a leader. He is a shameless marionette for the city's powerful development interests, which include, most notably, Homer Williams.

Posted by Pat | May 1, 2010 8:23 AM

What do Homer Williams, Merritt Paulson, Dean Marriott, City Center Parking and others have in common with Saltzman?

They all contributed to Adams campaign as well.

What is even more telling is when you look at Nick Fish's list.

Looks like the incumbents are getting the original form of "public campaign financing". They get contracts from the city and use your money to keep the incumbents in office.

Posted by Jasun Wurster | May 1, 2010 9:08 AM

Saltzman makes a big deal in his campaign about not taking more than $ 500 from any contributor, and about voluntarily limiting his fund raising even though he is not taking public funds.

Saltzman took a $ 500.00 check from Dame individually; he took a $ 500.00 check from Williams individually, and he took a $ 500.00 corporate check from the Dame / Williams development outfit.

Its not quite the structured transaction which has landed Tom Moyer in such trouble, but it has unmistakeable whiffs of sleeze, IMHO, and sure puts the lie to Saltzman's feigned air of fundraising innocence.

Posted by Nonny Mouse | May 1, 2010 9:17 AM

John Rettig, perhaps your disagreement is not over "balance" but rather with "livability," a polysemous term for which Mr Williams and Mr Saltzman, among so many others, have not been required to provide a functional definition?

Posted by Gardiner Menefree | May 1, 2010 10:06 AM

Shrivel. Quake. Wither. Tremble.
Maalox dreaming...So-What screaming....

Night terrors grip the sane populace as the figment of Adams' re-election becomes palpable...

etc

Every day I think of the family's new destination. Thinking Vancouver. (BC).

Posted by gaye harris | May 1, 2010 12:07 PM

Mayor Katz gave Homer everything he wanted. From the Pearl to SoWa, it's all Homer all the time.

Yet, where is the SoWa 30% set-aside for affordable housing required in the development agreement approved by Vera, Dan, Randy, Eric and Jim and signed by Homer and OHSU? Homer ran out of money, the condo's aren't selling. Yet the City kept it's part of the bargain from the tram, to a streetcar, to construction of green streets.

If the city did not hold up it's end of the agreement, taxpayers would be on the hook for $20 million in a law suit.

Posted by Mary Volm | May 1, 2010 1:01 PM

Saltzman...a leader? of what?
He's just Homer's poodle.

Posted by portland native | May 1, 2010 3:29 PM

Now, now Mary, you don't expect the City Council to bite the hands that feeds their election campaigns.

Posted by LucsAdvo | May 1, 2010 4:48 PM

Yet, where is the SoWa 30% set-aside for affordable housing required in the development agreement approved by Vera, Dan, Randy, Eric and Jim and signed by Homer and OHSU?

Don't ya know this hundred-rear economic tsunami changed all the rules?

Posted by jimbo | May 1, 2010 9:48 PM

Not only all that, he'll take children hostage, too.

All that 'For The Children' hooey is merely poseur antics.

Posted by godfry | May 2, 2010 7:54 AM

In Vino Veritas

Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs

The Occasional Book

Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 54
At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269