Springfield, Virginia resident Eric Williamson was arrested and charged with indecent exposure yesterday for failing to put on any clothes after getting up at 5:30 am to make some coffee. A woman and her 7-year-old daughter had cut across Williamson’s front yard and saw him through his kitchen window. [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
That “Free” Checking Account
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The Willamette Week blogs about an OSPRIG report about “free checking” in Oregon.
Here are two alarming facts the consumer protection group discovered in a survey of 10 banks and eight credit unions offering “low cost” checking accounts in Portland, Eugene and Ashland:
An overdraft of $20 paid back in two weeks amounts to a [...]
Suspect in Beaverton bank bomb threat captured
The suspect in the robbery of a Chase bank inside a Beaverton Fred Meyer store has been arrest. Robert Kuch was arrested in Seattle while preparing to board an Amtrak train to Portland.
Beaverton detectives received information on Kuch’s whereabouts and coordinated with other agencies to facilitate the arrest. A Beaverton police spokesperson would like to [...]
Grandpas Barn
My grandfather built several barns around Eastern Washington. All his barns are gone now, except for this one, fires got most of the others, but this still stands near Palouse, Washington. Granddad built this sometime between 1930 and 1940. It’s a source of controversy in the family, with siblings remembering [...]
Delaware Catholic Diocese follows Portland’s Lead
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A sex abuse case against Delaware’s Catholic Diocese of Wilmington and a former priest will be delayed after the diocese filed for federal bankruptcy protection on the eve of trial, AP reports.
In a separate development, the Catholic hierarchy, religious, priests and laity in Ireland are braced for the publication of a report on [...]
Oregon is Number 2!
A national study out this week (pdf) reports that Oregon had the second-highest number of students per teacher in the nation for the 2007-08 school year.
If we can just under-fund education for a few more years, I’m sure we can knock the current champion (Utah) out of the #1 spot. It’s interesting to note: the [...]