Voices carry
A couple of decades ago, in the heat of bachelorhood, we were out of town for the holidays, and when we returned, we found to our dismay that we may have missed a chance to be one of several "voices" to be profiled in the New Year's edition of Willamette Week. It was a bit curious, because at the time, we weren't blogging or doing anything else overtly political. But somebody must have put in a good word about us from somewhere. Anyway, we didn't respond in a timely way, and so our chance to be prominently quoted was lost. It was probably a good thing, in that we don't know what we would have had to say back then.
It's interesting that they're still running that feature in WW, and even more interesting that this week, the latest annual installment includes Al Our Palster, the blogging Tri-Met bus driver. Al's retired now -- probably tired, too -- but he has some interesting thoughts. So does Lainie Block Wilker, soccer mom and outspoken critic of the clueless bureaucrats running Portland's public schools into the ground. Portlanders, you owe yourself those two clicks.
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"He retired, he says, because he got sick of the transit-agency . . . Margulies, 58, talked to us about how TriMet must change."
Must be nice to retire at 58 after driving for only 15 years.
Posted by Conconrdbridge | January 6, 2013 12:44 PM
Good luck to Wilker's efforts. There's a lot of momentum and people making a killing of the current system to resist substantial changes though. Beware of what you ask for too. I suspect she'll have another awakening after the state takes a more active role towards PPS, if that should happen. Whatever tenuous control parents, voters and taxpayers have now will disappear into the black hole of Salem bureaucracy.
Posted by Andrew | January 6, 2013 5:28 PM
So I 'met' the two OUTspeaking Voices, and left with biting words I'd say back. WW shows other Voices after these two and I tried one, (the Portland-suburb Republican), looking for something approved in the two that somehow wasn't in (one of) the others. My third swing I whiffed, too.
Who are these people with their thinkers all up in a twist? Why does WW parlay them? Can WW 'get' only complainers to speak OUT whereas the composed and contented (ordinary people) know better than to talk 'prominent quotes' to a reporter? (The one time years ago I was Nigel Jaquiss's 'source' for a story, his WW printed badly what I had said.) Why, Jack?
Here's one thing I'd like to see put in, reasonably, to solve a phantom What's missing?: Is any one of the three (I read Margulies, Block Wilker and Parrish) married? Durably? They each sounded sorta socially spiteful.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | January 6, 2013 10:37 PM
"He retired, he says, because he got sick of the transit-agency . . . Margulies, 58, talked to us about how TriMet must change."
~~~>Not really retired, have other money making things going on. Retired from bus driving-FOREVER!
Is any one of the three (I read Margulies, Block Wilker and Parrish) married?
~~~~>MARRIED HERE however not sure how that matters.
Hey they asked me, I had nothing to do with it.
I was surprised as anybody.
Posted by al m | January 6, 2013 11:58 PM