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8211 SE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97202

8am - 6pm Monday - Friday
Office Only: 8am - 11am Saturday

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From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Book Spotlight- “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Picketty

In the Afterword to his masterpiece “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, Robert Pirsig introduces us to a Swedish

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Book Spotlight- “Dirty Wars” by Jeremy Scahill

“Dirty Wars- The World Is A Battlefield” by Jeremy Scahill In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller “Blackwater”,

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Book Spotlight- “Dog Whistle Politics” by Ian Haney-Lopez

Dog Whistle Politics:  How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class  by Ian Haney-Lopez Campaigning for president

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Book Spotlight- Two must-reads from our clients

When you have to wait with us for your vehicle’s repair it’s a mixed blessing.  You’re know you’re going to

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Book Spotlight- Flip through 2013’s library

Our shop waiting area is sorely lacking in amenities, but we do have one… our book and bumper sticker library. 

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Book Spotlight- “The Crash of 2013” by Thom Hartmann

What’s coming up in the future?  We’ve got our fingers crossed that the new XRAY-FM will bring Thom Hartmann back

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Book Spotlight- “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt

It’s no secret that we live in a world of an increasing political divide.  We all watched the recent government

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Book Spotlight- The Scariest Book You’ll Ever Read

What makes a scary story?  It’s not “bad things” as such.  A story about John Wayne Gacy might evoke many

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Book Spotlight- “Perfectly Legal” by David Cay Johnston

More than five years on, and there still have been no prosecutions of any major figures in the financial meltdown

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Book Spotlight- Crazy for reading

Health Notes this month gave you a small taste of how and why insanity is becoming one of our newest

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Book Spotlight- Surprise! No one’s innocent

One of the most common rationalizations from the citizenry to permit continued surveillance is that “If you don’t have anything

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Book Spotlight- “The Death and Life of American Journalism” by Robert McChesney

We had a couple articles in this month’s newsletter that spotlighted particularly egregious flaws in journalism, so we felt it

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