We accept advertising through Blogads. If you're interested, click the "Advertise here" link above, or go here to place your ad through Blogads. For assistance, e-mail me here; I'd be glad to help. Reach lots of viewers -- we're up to about 3,800 unique visits a day, and more than 61,000 page views a week (as of November 4). Our rates are dirt cheap for the exposure you'll get! If you'd like to advertise without going through the Blogads system, that's do-able, too. Just e-mail us here for more information.
As a lawyer/blogger, I get
to be a member of:
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
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
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
Comments (12)
Whatever happened to the kid who bid on some timber leases and was arrested And charged with fraud when he couldn't pay for his bids?
Is that precedent here?
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | February 9, 2011 9:14 AM
Is that what you call a "Homer Run" ?
Posted by Ralph Woods | February 9, 2011 9:38 AM
Pardon my sarcasm, but doesn't this mean the Portland taxpayer will be expected to pick up the slack?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | February 9, 2011 10:05 AM
My money is on Grumpy's view.
Posted by dyspeptic | February 9, 2011 10:10 AM
Is that what you call a "Homer Run" ?
A "fly out" to Homer, Alaska?
Posted by starbuck | February 9, 2011 10:18 AM
"Apparently their backing out means" that we need to dig deep into the PDC honeypot to fund this thing!
Walsh and Homer need it, they are the only people in creation that can do these deals.
Posted by Steve | February 9, 2011 10:28 AM
Bu there is so much stench left behind.
OHSU preaching that MLR is crucial to their expansion.
Could it be because of the $10 million TriMet is giving to their new complex?
Or that in exchange for that OHSU donated some land for MLR and TriMet inflated it's value to $15 million in order to gin up the local match requirment for the feds share?
Just listen to former Metro councilor
now OHSU's Brian Newman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLkroUFej7Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The role of transit is crucial to attracting everything and "leveraging" and "building community".
Posted by Ben | February 9, 2011 10:32 AM
I like the literary touch, Jack. We go from
T.E. Lawrence's autobiography, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" to Portland's "Seven Stories of
Worthlessness" and it's all part of Homer's Odyssey through the shifting sands of a toxic landfill.
Posted by Bill McDonald | February 9, 2011 11:41 AM
Since Dames and Williams were the major "partners" with CoP/PDC on the 9 Amendments comprising the South Water Agreement, are the requirements of the Amendments being met?
Homer received several advantages that were to be paid back in the future for each of the Amendments. He's coped out on Block 49-Affordable Housing, there were other Affordable Housing requirements that were to be met by him in the Amendments too, but not performed. He's taken advantage of FAR/Height bonuses/trades-will they ever be tracked and properly implemented by PDC? Will Homer skip on Agreements on LIDs and other payments/benefits back to the taxpayers?
When a "partner" skips who's protecting the other partner, us, the taxpayers?
And when SW Moody is moved approximately 100 ft to the west giving OHSU the additional width and over 1000 ft length of property to benefit their Life Science Building , will the gained property be properly valued and compensated to the taxpayers? The additional property is equivalent to 3 city blocks, which in SoWhat has a value of $8 to $10 Million. With TriMets inflated $15 Million given to OHSU as Ben pointed out, then they could properly compensate for this land gain.
Posted by Lee | February 9, 2011 12:44 PM
And when SW Moody is moved...will the gained property be properly valued and compensated to the taxpayers?
That sounds like the scam that Metro/TriMet/Lake Oswego is trying to pull off with their little streetcar project to L.O., claiming the value of the "Willamette Shores Trolley" line will cover the local match for the route.
Never mind that the property has a zero actual value - if the property is not used for a railroad, the land reverts back to the adjoining property owner at no cost to that adjoining owner; and no railroad in their right mind would buy up the right-of-way for a rail purpose. The only value of the line is to the Metro/TriMet/L.O. cabal to build a streetcar on.
Posted by Erik H. | February 9, 2011 1:36 PM
I'm liking the exercise in full-on propaganda that is the Tram. For example, this article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/us_news_ranks_portland_no_1_fo.html
has this choice quote:
“All of these cities' systems have unique features that set them apart. Portland's public transit provides riders with a variety of travel options, including buses, light rail, commuter rail, streetcars, and an aerial tram.
That's right: the "Tram" is considered a key part of the public transit system. I'd laugh if I weren't crying.
Posted by ecohuman | February 10, 2011 8:46 AM
With Sam Miller now taking over PBOT I guess we will soon be adding to Portland's "variety of travel options" a skate board rope tow to Pill Hill and Council Crest.
Posted by lw | February 10, 2011 10:08 AM