I guess it depends on what your definition of "know" is. How can you really "know" anything, right?

The only thing the horrigonian ever liked was good for their business. This white washing of Super K is disgusting..hey maybe another 3-4% will fall off circulation.

"Is it fair to him to ask him again to prove the negative? Is it good for Oregon?

We don't think so."

And why would they think that people in Oregon would give a rats *ss about what a New Jersey-owned newspaper thinks about this topic??

good for Oregon?

Obviously, they thought that letting Neil continue to play political boss was "good for Oregon." That must have been why they performed the public service of covering up for him for years.

It's sad when a media outlet doesn't think that the truth is good. And you wonder why this country is so screwed up.

I must say, the O's editorial "Echoes of a scandal" is certainly laughable. For example:

How should Ted take O's comment that ".. friend Ted Kulongoski, a minor functionary in state government and two-time loser.."? Funny that if you are a "minor functionary" and you know of a possible rape, then it is much to do about nothing. When is the measure of a person the measure of when a crime should be reported? And how can the Oregonian call Ted's positions as State Attorney General and Supreme Court Judge "minor functionary"? Hardy and our Supremes must really feel good now.

If the O is so sure that "it is impossible to prove a negative" or the reverse, then why don't they editorialize that Ted should agree to the State's Police Standards Board interviewing Ted under oath with cross examination? Maybe the negative would become a positive for the citizens of Oregon.

"for years and did nothing about it"

That appears to be common practice for the corrupted O. Especially when the Neil Goldschmidt society is in play.

This past week the O editorial board, after years of parroting OHSU's 10,000 biotech jobs con, had the gaul to say that idea may yet show some promise.
Never was there any basis for the claim while extensive and absolute evidence demonstrated the fat chance reality.

But when the editorial page editor's wife is the head of communications at OHSU it seams they find it ethical to trumpet the bald faced lies borne from Goldschmidt and delivered by Kohler and OHSU.

Now, as expected, OHSU is on the brink of fiscal calamity, in need of a public bail out and the O editorial page will hold no one accountable.
How can they when they, themselves, played such a promonent role in hyping the public deceit.

Where's Robert Landauer when we need him?

More blind eyes coming home to roost. From the AP...

SALEM, Ore. -- A former governor's spokesman faces misdemeanor charges of encouraging child sex abuse and official misconduct.

Scott William Ballo, 36, was arraigned last week in Marion County Circuit Court.

The charges were filed after the Oregon Economic Community Development Department reviewed his computer files. Ballo was communications manager from February 2003 until May 2004, said marketing director Nathan Buehler.

"It raised an eyebrow from IT staff, and that's when the process started here," Buehler said.

Ballo worked as a Democratic consultant on various campaigns and was spokesman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski during his first campaign and when he took office in 2003. Ballo's next appearance in court is set for Nov. 29.