– An Oregon Perspective –
Florida is No. 1 in the AP Top 25; Utah is perfect at No. 2
Oregon finished #10, and Oregon State finished #18.
InsideHigherEd.com has a discussion of the some of the costs of fielding a top flight sports program in the NCAA, using the Texas Longhorns and Oregon Ducks as examples.
The Article is here
Outdoing [...]
Spy and Surveillance
Is your company car or lorry / truck equipped with a GPS system and monitored by your boss? You have no chance of being undisturbed once in a while?
Do you suspect your jealous partner of having you watched?
Modern technology means that you may be constantly being monitored without even noticing it!
Tracking devices [...]
Why abandon the gasoline tax?
The state of Oregon is toying with the remarkably stupid idea of trying to tax people for transportation based on how many miles they drive. The idea is to use that new tax revenue to replace the traditional per-gallon gasoline tax, which taxes people based on how much gasoline they consume.
“A [...]
Weather News
A new storm moving into British Columbia today will spark potentially life-threatening flooding in the storm-battered Pacific Northwest.
According to Western Expert Meteorologist Ken Clark, “This is a particularly dangerous situation from the Cascades on west and also in extreme eastern Washington, northeastern Oregon and northern Idaho.”
Heavy rain will fall across the Pacific Northwest through [...]
Oregon band to march in inaugural
Portland’s Get a Life Marching Band has been picked to be in President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural parade Jan. 20.
It will join about 100 other bands. About 1,400 bands applied.
Members are mostly from Oregon and southwest Washington, but some come from as far as South Dakota. All have marching band experience [...]
Knicks consider trade to bring back Marcus Camby
There was a report of the Knicks being involved in a deal that would send Quentin Richardson to the Clippers and Lee to Portland, with the Knicks getting back Camby and former Knicks first-round pick Channing Frye. Walsh, however, denied having discussed that trade with the Clippers and [...]
Bids deadline for South Waterfront park extended
The deadline for bids on South Waterfront Neighborhood Park improvements has been extended one week to Jan. 15. The project consists of building a two-block park in the South Waterfront District, bordered by Southwest Moody and Bond avenues and Curry and Gaines streets.
The work is being done under two [...]
Financial uncertainties for owner of three Oregon dailies
Lee Enterprises, a major publishing company that holds three Oregon daily papers, says it may have troubled covering debts for the next two years because of reductions in revenue.
The company publishes the St. Louis Post Dispatch but also the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Coos Bay World and the Corvallis [...]
Oregon 150 is planning a bunch of events this year. Does 150 years as a state feel “special” to you?
Here is the Act of Congress (February 14, 1859) admitting Oregon to the Union. I had no idea we were a Valentines Day state…
[Update] – a quick look through the Oregon 150 website leaves one – [...]
Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes
The other day the guys from BaconToday.com contacted me in search for some barbecue bacon recipes. Of course I have plenty of great uses for bacon in a barbecue pit, but the longer I thought about it, the more I wanted to step it up a [...]