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This page is where stuff on the [[PortlandWiki|main page]]'s [[PortlandWiki#News|news section]] goes when it changes from ''news'' to ''olds''. Observe forgotten current events, humorous behavior and other hijinks of primitive human societies from the dawn of time!
This page is where stuff on the [[PortlandWiki|main page]]'s [[PortlandWiki#News|news section]] goes when it changes from ''news'' to ''olds''. Observe forgotten current events, humorous behavior and other hijinks of primitive human societies from the dawn of time!


=== Wednesday | February 23, 2011 ===
==Earlier Months==
[[File:14th Annual Homelessness Marathon.jpg|thumb|14th Annual Homelessness Marathon]]
'''Listen To Stories Told By Homeless People From Around The United States'''<br />
This afternoon, Portland's [[KBOO]] Community Radio (90.7 fm) will begin a live fourteen hour radio broadcast of "The 14th Annual Homelessness Marathon" at 4:00 p.m. Pacific. Kansas City is the host for this year's special public affairs program, which, in addition to [[KBOO]], also broadcasts simultaneously on numerous other community radio stations throughout the United States. This is your opportunity to get beyond the ugly statistics, and the sad commentary on our culture's blatant immorality in denying shelter to so many among us, and just listen to what homeless folks have to say about the experiences they endure daily.
:''Go to story'': [http://kboo.fm/node/26724 Special Programming: Public Affairs on 02/23/11 - The 14th Annual Homelessness Marathon]
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=== Tuesday | February 22, 2011 ===
[[File:MetroFi abandoned WiFi antenna - Portland, Oregon.JPG|thumb|An abandoned MetroFi antenna. Photo by [[wikipedia:User:Aboutmovies|M.O. Stevens]].]]
'''[[Personal Telco]] repurposing old [[MetroFi]] wireless devices throughout Portland... as soon as someone donates the bandwidth'''<br />
After MetroFi, the company Portland hired in 2006 to create a wifi network covering the city, tanked two years later, leaving hundreds of dead wireless devices throughout Portland, the city was forced to take them down and put them in storage. Now, the city has donated over a hundred of them to Personal Telco, the free wifi nonprofit serving Portland. Now all Personal Telco needs to get them transmitting free wifi is donated bandwidth.
:''Go to story'': [http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2011/02/personal_telco_deploys_metrofi.html Personal Telco deploys MetroFi's old Wi-Fi gear in North Portland]
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=== Monday | February 21, 2011 ===
[[File:Indweller.jpg|thumb|''Anna Lavatelli, "The Pink Room"'']]
'''Levitation Is For Indwellers'''<br />
The [[Archer Gallery]] at [[Clark College]] presents ''Indweller'', video works by Victoria Fu, Anna Lavatelli, Noelle Mason, and Lilly McElroy. "In each of these works, the bodies are used in a predetermined way within the space of the setting and the frame. The female figures are choreographed or set to a limited structure of movement, rather than used as character explorations. Through controlled gestures, constructed cinematic structures, and suspended moments in time and space, the figures become inseparable from the setting within the video, existing to complete the imagined world of the artist."<br />
Exhibition • February 22 - March 18, 2011<br />
Reception • 6-8pm • March 12<br />
[[Archer Gallery]] • [[Clark College]]<br />
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, FAC 101, Vancouver, Washington
:''Go to story'': [http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2011/02/indweller.html Indweller]
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=== Sunday | February 20, 2011 ===
[[File:Sad dog.jpg|thumb|Phoebe the pooch has a loving family and is ''not'' one of the animals mentioned in this story.]]
'''The Quarantines are Being Filled'''<br />
30 dogs, ranging from a couple days to 8 years old were rescued by The Humane Society from a Canby breeder; they were quarantined by The Humane Sociey, out of fear that these dogs might have infectious parasites. Doctors believe that these dogs could have diseases and/or dangerous stomach parasites. If this proves true, the Canby breeder could face up to six months in jail and $2,500 in fines because of charges of "animal neglect in second degree." Reasons for this might be that the breeder has been struggling to sell her dogs in this difficult economy. However, the dogs were clearly abandoned: evidence ranging from empty food bowls to lingering feces. The price must be paid.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2011/02/dogs_rescued_from_canby_breede.html Dogs rescued from Canby breeder placed in quarantine at Portland's Oregon Humane Society]
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=== Saturday | February 19, 2011 ===
[[File:City.club.logo.png|thumb|Congressman Earl Blumenauer will discuss how Portland can take the easy way out at City Club of Portland; Friday, February 25, 2011; 12:15pm - 1:15pm.]]
'''Federal Alignment: Taking The Road More Traveled'''<br />
From [[City Club of Portland]] Web Site: "Since the near collapse of the financial system two years ago, both the United States and Oregon have struggled to get their economies moving. The federal government faces significant challenges in solving issues related to Social Security and Medicare funding, massive defense spending and a seeming inability to solve educational problems. Though daunting, none of these challenges has been unforeseen. On February 25, Congressman Earl Blumenauer will consider opportunities for reform that need not be as radical as some are predicting. In particular, the Congressman will describe unique opportunities for Oregon to better align its plans with federal priorities, and will explain how, by making these adjustments, both national and state program could become more sustainable and effective. Congressman Earl Blumenauer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 and is a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Budget Committee."
:''Go to story'': [http://www.pdxcityclub.org/content/address-congressman-earl-blumenauer A Decade of Decision: Why it Doesn't Have to Be This Hard]
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=== Friday | February 18, 2011 ===
[[File:Michael Scheuer.jpg|thumb|Michael Scheuer, former chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit, appears at Powell's City of Books on Burnside (Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: ''Osama bin Laden''.]]
'''It's A Tough, Brutal, Dishonest World Out There'''<br />
And it's getting even nastier. The President (who briefly swung through Hillsboro today)<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0218/Obama-touts-high-tech-business-investment-at-Intel-in-Oregon Obama touts high tech, business investment at Intel in Oregon]</ref> is forced to cut deals with "business leaders" running massive, multinational corporations in hopes of making "America more competitive." Those same executives, who publicly fret that Obama's economic policies "increase business uncertainty"<ref>[http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_17422774?source=rss&nclick_check=1 Obama set to tour Intel plant, names CEO Paul Otellini to jobs council]</ref> are quickly targeted by "grassroots" teabagger propaganda mills, like FreedomWorks and Free Enterprise Project, for imbibing in "crony corporatism in its purest form."<ref>[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/01/jeffrey-immelt-general-electric-obama-freedomworks-tea-party-economy-jobs-competitiveness.html Tea party-affiliated groups call for Immelt to resign from GE because of work for Obama]</ref> Naturally, these same teabagger groups are financially propped up by other crony capitalists.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/13/tea-party-billionaire-koch-brothers Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow. Industrialists who own private company with annual revenues of £62bn have channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes]</ref> Our Secretary of State is forced to talk out of both sides of her mouth as the Egyptian people rid themselves of their U.S.-backed dictator, masterfully displaying her flip-flop artistry (she was for Mubarak before she turned against him) as if she had taken private lessons from Flip-Flop King<ref>[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/01/jeffrey-immelt-general-electric-obama-freedomworks-tea-party-economy-jobs-competitiveness.html Kerry's Top Ten Flip-Flops]</ref> himself. Her training quickly paid off. Clinton managed to keep impeccable poise as she mouthed empty platitudes glorifying the many wonders enjoyed by "free people" everywhere, even as her security goons brutally dragged away an elderly, peaceful and quiet dissenter.<ref>[http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8360 Ray McGovern, Former Sr. CIA Analyst, 'Bruised, Bloodied' While Dragged From Room During Hillary Clinton Speech on 'Freedom of Expression']</ref> In fact, in his earlier life, that same dissenter was a high-level C.I.A. analyst and an Army veteran. Fortunately, you have an opportunity to meet another former C.I.A. officer on Sunday! Michael Scheuer is scheduled to appear at Powell's (City of Books on Burnside; Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: ''Osama bin Laden''. Scheuer, who served as chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, will explain how the U.S. "mindlessly" played into bin Laden's plans to provoke a war on Muslim soil, which catalyzed a jihad designed to "obliterate America from within, by making it economically weak, until its markets collapse." It's a tough world out there. And it's getting nastier.
:''Go to calendar'': [http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780199738663-42 Michael Scheuer, former chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit, appears at Powell's City of Books on Burnside (Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: ''Osama bin Laden''.]
:''Go to story'': [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/17/former-cia-analyst-accosted-during-clinton-speech-about-tolerating-free-expression/ Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free expression]
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=== Thursday | February 17, 2011 ===
[[File:Obama Talk - B.jpg|thumb|Prague Spring? Obama delivers hope, change and missile defense in Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 2009.]]
'''Obama visits Intel in Hillsboro to prove he cares about jobs'''<br />
Tomorrow morning, Obama's speech at Intel's lab in Hillsboro will be [http://www.whitehouse.gov/Live streamed live] at about 11:30. He is not scheduled to speak about Intel's anti-competitive, monopolistic practices that squash innovations and jobs created by other processor manufacturers. However, he is scheduled to talk about how he and Intel are partnering together for better education and innovation. For America.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/02/president_obamas_visit_to_inte.html President Obama's visit to Intel in Hillsboro will be streamed live Friday morning]
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=== Wednesday | February 16, 2011 ===
[[File:Cult Of Ecstasy.jpg|thumb|Cult Of Ecstasy]]
'''Banging The Bhagwan'''<br />
Nearly 30 years ago, followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh "bought the ranch"<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_%28Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh%29#Travels_and_return_to_Pune:_1985.E2.80.931990 Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh): Travels and return to Pune: 1985–1990]</ref> and led thousands to a remote area east of Portland for unrestricted sexual activity, communing with UFOs, taking drugs of all kinds and "spiritual" excess. Who says religious fanatics aren't any fun?
:''Go to story'': [http://www.huliq.com/10282/rajneesh-and-his-wicked-ways-revealed-30th-anniversary-oregon-cult Rajneesh and his wicked ways revealed on 30th anniversary of Oregon cult]
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=== Tuesday | February 15, 2011 ===
[[File:BMW Series3 black l.jpg|thumb|When you're driving a BMW, you just ''have'' to endanger the lives of others. It's a rule!]]
'''Oregon driver films speeding for YouTube, goes to jail'''<br />
Is there any better way to achieve YouTube "fame" than to endanger the lives of you and everyone else on the road? One Oregon man couldn't think of any. Filming himself speeding down [[I-5]], the driver (who has had three other speeding incidents in the last year) was clocked at 118 mph when he was pulled over. When the cop asked him why he was filming, he responded that he was recording his speeding and arrest to later post on YouTube. However, his lofty plans for internet fame were thwarted when the video was confiscated by police, who will instead use it as evidence against him. Since the camera was intentionally pointed at his speedometer, police easily discovered he had achieved speeds in excess of 140 mph. According to a police spokesperson, winds were gusting at 50 mph that day, and there were branches on the freeway. "To be driving at these speeds today was just plain crazy."
:''Go to story'': [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110213/us_nm/us_speeding_video Man jailed after filming himself driving 140 mph]
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=== Monday | February 14, 2011 ===
[[File:You complete me.jpg|thumb|Where's the (geek) love? Right [[Monday Meets|here]]!]]
'''Yaay! It's Valentine's Day! And So Much More...'''<br />
Love, pollen and CO<sup>2</sup> is in the air. And history is in the books. Here are some highlights from this date in the annals of years gone by:
* In 1859, Oregon was admitted to the Union as the 33rd state.
* In 1912, Arizona became the 48th state of the Union.
* In 1929, a hail of bullets slaughtered seven rivals of Al Capone's gang in a Chicago garage, an event instantly dubbed "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."
(One wonders how such ferocious gunplay happened ''outside'' Arizona.)
* Today, February 14, 2011, you can show your wikigeek love by hanging out with other PortlandWiki geeks at [[Monday Meets]]!
:''Go to story'': [http://www.lemonbasilpdx.com/2011/02/happy-152nd-birthday-oregon.html Happy 152nd Birthday, Oregon!]
:''Go to factoids'': [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021400012_pf.html Today in History]
:''Go to Monday Meets'': [[Monday Meets]]
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=== Sunday | February 13, 2011 ===
* [[Old news/April 2011|April 2011]]
[[File:Amtrak Train Vancouver Washington.jpg|thumb|For decades, Amtrak has mastered the art of low-speed rail.]]
'''America Is Number One In Low-Speed & No-Speed Rail'''<br />
Whether political inertia, public inattention, corporate malfeasance, natural "events," or just plain stupidity, nothing stops American Rail from delivering decent, reliable and effective passenger service, with one exception: everything. This time a mudslide north of Vancouver shut down Amtrak train service between Portland and Seattle. The tracks -- which are owned by BNSF railroad -- were passable, but BNSF protocol was "not to have any live passengers shipped through the area" at the time.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.kxl.com/Mudslide-Halts-Amtrak-Service-Yet-Again/9188479 Mudslide Halts Amtrak Service Yet Again]
:''Go to story'': [http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Mudslide-halts-Portland-Seattle-Amtrak-service-116084944.html Mudslide halts Portland-Seattle Amtrak service]
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=== Saturday | February 12, 2011 ===
* [[Old news/March 2011|March 2011]]
[[File:Portland Adventist Medical Center.jpg|thumb|"Care you can have faith in."]]
'''Faith-Based Health Care: Minus The "Health" Or The "Care"'''<br />
Birgilio Marin-Fuentes, 61, died early Friday in [[Portland Adventist Medical Center]]'s parking garage, just 100 feet from the hospital's emergency room's entrance. Police who arrived at the scene said no one from the staff of Portland Adventist Medical Center helped as officers tried to revive him. In fact, the only medical help the officers received was from an ambulance crew after hospital staff members told an officer to call 911. CEO Tom Russell released a statement filled with the usual bland we're-doing-our-best-but-we'll-do-better-next-time boilerplate dished out whenever a large organization gets caught "fornicating with the donkey." The key takeaway: "We have followed this practice (of calling 911 rather than taking care of the medical emergency) many times in the past year, as we did this past Thursday and will continue to do in the future." Now ''that's'' care you can have faith in!
:''Go to story'': [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12brfs-MANDIESYARDS_BRF.html Man Dies Yards From Emergency Room Door]
:''Go to story'': [http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/portland_adventist_refuses_to.html Portland Adventist tells police to call an ambulance for man stricken in hospital's parking lot]
:''Go to statement'': [http://portlandwiki.org/images/b/b1/AMC_Statement.gif "Care you can have faith in."]
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=== Friday | February 11, 2011 ===
* [[Old news/February 2011|February 2011]]
[[File:Beautiful Freedom.jpg|thumb|Liberty is beautiful to behold.]]
'''Can You Walk Like An Egyptian?'''<br />
A decaying, rabidly immoral kleptocracy of rapacious plutocrats, tyrannical corporate charlatans, and criminally insane financial swindlers. An expanding archipelago of prisons, detention camps and torture centers. Whorish and corrupt legislators who bend servile knee to suckle at the rancid tip of their paymasters.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12herbert.html When Democracy Weakens]</ref> The giant sucking sound of a nation's wealth gushing into the black hole of a privatized aristocracy. Violent religious extremists who run amok to terrorize ordinary people and kill at will. A mass media whose exquisite mastery of propaganda, disinformation and psychological warfare would have George Orwell stammering with horror and amazement. A largely apathetic, distracted, ignorant and psychically numb population. Sadly, this is the poisonous social milieu that Portlandians and other Americans still swim in. Thank God our Egyptian friends are, after suffering years of tyranny and with much struggle, beginning to shake off the terrible thugs who've brutalized them for so long. So what's stopping us?
:''Go to story'': [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/opinion/12herbert.html When Democracy Weakens]
:''Go to story'': [http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/anger-in-egypt/ Egypt's Revolution: Triumph as Mubarak quits]
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=== Thursday | February 10, 2011 ===
[[File:Hawthorne Bridge at night facing west.jpg|thumb|[[Hawthorne Bridge]] has frequent bus service, as well as bike, pedestrian, and car access.]]
'''Portland ranked #1 in public transportation'''<br />
According to ''U.S. News'', Portland offers the best public transportation in the US. The rankings were based on public investment, ridership, and safety. Citing Portland's [[buses]], [[light rail]], [[commuter rail]], [[streetcars]], and [[aerial tram]], as well as [[Fareless Square]] (recently demoted from offering free service to bus and rail lines to just rail lines), U.S. News ranked Portland above Salt Lake City (#2), New York City (#3), and Boston (#4). Our big sister to the north, Seattle, ranked at #11 due to its poor safety record.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/02/08/10-best-cities-for-public-transportation http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/02/08/10-best-cities-for-public-transportation]
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=== Wednesday | February 9, 2011 ===
[[File:Greendrinks Are For Sustainers.png|thumb|Greendrinks Are For Sustainers]]
'''Drink, Flirt, & Build "Sustainable Communities: Together"'''<br />
Do you mix well with others? Can you at least mix a stiff drink? Do you enjoy greenwashing whatever activity you're involved in as much as the next urban ecosexual?<ref>[http://globalwarming.solveyourproblem.com/ecosexual.shtml What Is An Ecosexual?]</ref> Well your golden, uh, ''emerald'' moment draws near! Tomorrow evening (Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm) you're invited to participate in "Net Impact Mixer - Help Us Build Sustainable Communities: Together." Think of it as a "green mixer." Everyone else does. Join the festivities at [[Upright Brewing]], 240 [[North Broadway]] (yup! that's ''North,'' NOT ''Northeast''), Suite 2 [[Leftbank Project]] Portland , OR 97227.
:''Go to event'': [http://www.pdxgreendrinks.org/events/2011/feb/net-impact-mixer-help-us-build-sustainable-communities-together Net Impact Mixer - Help Us Build Sustainable Communities: Together]
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=== Tuesday | February 8, 2011 ===
[[File:MTS 733 - right.JPG|thumb|Rumor consumer or tumor bloomer?]]
'''Proposed bill would require warning labels for cell phones'''<br />
Amid growing controversy over the long-term health effects of cell phone radiation, Oregon state senator Chip Shields and 5 other Oregon lawmakers have introduced a bill ([[SB 679]]) that would require cell phones in Oregon to have labels warning of their radio-frequency radiation. Long-term studies have thus far been inconclusive about possible harmful effects of cell phones, such as brain cancer.<ref>[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/cell_phone_cancer_study_produc.html Cellphone cancer study inconclusive; researcher urges more study]</ref> If passed, Oregon would be the first to require labels on cell phones for radio-frequency radiation. Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and the CTIA wireless trade group have already hired lobbyists to fight the bill.
:''Go to story'': [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2011/02/oregon_state_senator_chip_shie.html Oregon considers cellphone radiation label]
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=== Monday | February 7, 2011 ===
[[File:Unfree Internet.jpg|thumb|The Free & Open Internet: Never had it; never will.]]
'''The "Internet Kill Switch" And You'''<br />
Last month, PortlandWikiNews brought you a preview of Portland's (then) upcoming [[Portland Strategic BroadBand Plan: Connecting Our Future|Strategic BroadBand Plan kick-off event]]. That report also highlighted concerns many in our community have about the "gatekeeper" roles large corporations increasingly exert over public access to the Internet, once widely considered a public utility. (See "The Internet: Just Another Cable TV Box?"; Wednesday | January 26, 2011.) These same corporations (in Portland, they're primarily [[Qwest]] and [[Comcast]]) continue to impose fierce political and economic pressure to assure their increased control over the Internet, and to defeat any genuine guarantee of "net neutrality" (allowing unimpeded access and delivery of all Internet traffic). But the Egyptian government's decision to hit the "kill switch"--shutting off that country's Internet traffic during most of that country's ongoing pro-democracy revolt--has alarmed pro-democracy advocates all over the globe. It has also exposed some of the more sinister motives underlying efforts by governments and large businesses to put control of the global network into the hands of a handful of corporate and state actors. Were you aware that "almost all of the industrialized 'first world' Internet" traffic, including in the United States, "is moderately to pervasively censored by government authorities"?
:''Go to story'': [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663164/infographics-internet-censorship-is-rampant-around-the-world Infographics: Internet Censorship Is Rampant Around the World]
:''Go to info graphic'': [http://yuxiyou.net/open/ So you still think the Internet is free.]
:''Go to kill switch'': [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/how-egypt-or-how-your-government-could-shut-down-the-internet.ars How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet]
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=== Sunday | February 6, 2011 ===
[[File:Egyptians in action.jpg|thumb|Egyptians In Action]]
'''Measurable Percentage Of Portlandians Express Interest In Egyptian Uprising'''<br />
In a recent article published at Centre for Research on Globalization<ref>[http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Centre for Research on Globalization]</ref> Larry Chin leads off with a strongly worded assertion: "As people across the Arab world take to the streets to fight for democracy, and an end to oppression and tyranny, the oblivious, uninterested and acquiescent American public has done virtually nothing." But have Portlandians shown ''total'' abject apathy and callous indifference to the Egyptian People's Uprising? ''We think not!'' As reported by good ol' PortlandWikiNewsLeakers last week (Saturday | January 29, 2011), "about 300" people rallied at [[Pioneer Courthouse Square]] in solidarity with the Egyptian pro-democracy revolutionaries. Toss in the assumed solidarity of PortlandWiki's estimated three active readers and the total number of Portlandians expressing and/or fantasizing "solidarity" with pro-democracy Egyptians rises to 303. That's a whopping 0.05% of Portland's population of 583,835! Hey, five one hundredths of one percent of a town's population is nothin' to sneer at.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23085 As the Arab world fights, America sleeps]
:''Go to story'': [http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-26355-showing_solidarity_with_egyptians_protesters_at_pioneer_square_rally_against_mubarak.html Showing Solidarity with Egyptians, Protesters at Pioneer Square Rally Against Mubarak]
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=== Saturday | February 5, 2011 ===
[[File:Bike Rack Yarn Bomb.jpg|thumb|Yarn bombers improve Portland "one stitch at a time."]]
'''Yarn Bombers Keep Bridge City In Stitches'''<br />
Slip Yum Yum keeps to the shadows. "We work hard to keep a low profile and only communicate digitally," explained a go-between. Slip is one of a growing number of a growing underground of stitch artists known as "yarn bombers" who stitch their graffiti onto various public artifacts like statues, bicycle racks, trees, street lamps and telephone poles. Yarn bombers can pick up supplies from any of a surprisingly large number of local yarn shops.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=1010&q=portland+yarn portland yarn]</ref> Yarn enthusiasts even have their own Yarn Crawl!<ref>[http://www.portlandyarncrawl.com/ Portland Oregon Yarn Crawl]</ref> But the yarn bomb blog ("improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time") is maintained from Vancouver British Columbia.<ref>[http://yarnbombing.com/ Yarn Bombing: Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time.]</ref>
:''Go to story'': [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/05/us-yarn-bombers-idUSTRE71427O20110205 Oregon "yarn bombers" knit graffiti for lamp posts, trees]
:''Go to crawl'': [http://www.portlandyarncrawl.com/ Portland Oregon Yarn Crawl]
:''Go to blog'': [http://yarnbombing.com/ Yarn Bombing: Improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time.]
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=== Friday | February 4, 2011 ===
[[File:Values-plunge.jpg|thumb|Collapsing housing bubble finds its "floor"?]]
'''Portland Home Sales Drop 7%'''<br />
The "five-county Portland region" saw a 7% plunge in house sales from December 2009 to December 2010. Absentee buyers accounted for 19.4% of the housing sold. Most of those sales were reported as "investments." Although the median house price hovered at $222,000, absentee investors paid an average of just $190,000.
:''Go to story'': [http://www.housingwire.com/2011/02/04/portland-area-home-sales-drop-7-from-a-year-ago Portland area home sales drop 7% from a year ago]
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=== Thursday | February 3, 2011 ===
[[File:KCityParkRabbit.JPG|thumb|The rabbit is one of the 12 signs in the Chinese Zodiac.]]
'''Welcome to the Year of the Metal Rabbit'''<br />
Today is the beginning of the Chinese and Vietnamese (Tết) New Year, marking the beginning of the year of the Metal Rabbit, according to the Chinese Zodiac (year of the Cat in Vietnamese Zodiac). Astrological predictions of rabbit years include associations with "home and family, artistic pursuits, diplomacy, and keeping the peace", and conversely that "nations will also become more insular and increasingly lock down their borders to protect against the 'other'". In Portland, there will be many free activities and celebrations this Saturday.
:''Go to events listing (celebrations this Saturday)'': [http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/chinese_and_vietnamese_new_yea.html Chinese and Vietnamese New Year events]
:''Go to astrology explanation'': [http://www.chiff.com/a/chinese-horoscopes.htm The Year of the Rabbit: Chinese Horoscope Predictions for 4709 - 2011]
:''Go to astrology explanation'': [http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2011.htm Chinese New Year 2011 - The Year of Golden White Rabbit]
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=== Wednesday | February 2, 2011 ===
[[File:Dinosaur Colorado A Very Real Town.jpg|thumb|Dinosaur, Colorado: "A Very Real Town."]]
'''PDX Out-Migration Fuels Fossil'''<br />
Local slacker/hipster has "grown tired of Portland" and plans to relocate to Dinosaur, Colorado, a "very real town."
:''Go to story'': [http://twitter.com/#!/BelgianBoolean/status/32958033030025216 I've grown tired of Portland, so I'm moving to Dinosaur, Co. A very real town.]
:''Go to very real town'': [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur,_Colorado Dinosaur, Colorado]
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=== Tuesday | February 1, 2011 ===
'''Gov. Kitzhaber releases state budget proposal, responding to funding crisis with further cuts to education, health'''<br />
The budget Kitzhaber offers would include cuts to Oregon's already ailing K-12 education, reducing teachers and increasing class sizes. Also Oregon Health Plan, the same program Kitzhaber started in the mid-90s, would have cuts. According to OPB, "doctors would be paid less to treat Oregon Health Plan patients and fewer treatments would be covered." Since it was conceived, people who have relied on Oregon Health Plan have experienced several critical cuts in their health care, including a massive cut in 2003 that attracted national attention, when 100,000 people in mental health and/or substance abuse treatment lost their prescription coverage.
:''Go to story'': [http://news.opb.org/article/56132-kitzhaber-says-budget-will-require-shared-sacrifices/ Kitzhaber Says Budget Will Require 'Shared Sacrifices']
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==Earlier Months==


* [[Old news/January 2011|January 2011]]
* [[Old news/January 2011|January 2011]]
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Latest revision as of 14:45, 19 November 2011

This page is where stuff on the main page's news section goes when it changes from news to olds. Observe forgotten current events, humorous behavior and other hijinks of primitive human societies from the dawn of time!

Earlier Months

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