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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.

Inner City Blues Festival- Getting “In The Groove Of Love” supports single payer health care!

Update 4/15/13– We brought back a few pix from the show this weekend.  Apologies for the poor quality of the

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Labor Pains- Bad engineering can affect your bottom line

You’ve been there.  You’re standing at the Service Counter looking at the bill for repairs.  There’s a long list of

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A Very Good IDEA- Intellectual Deficit Equalization Act could fix big problems

When it comes to federal spending, all states are not created equal.  Some states receive far more federal money than

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FREE Solar Power- How to put a solar energy system on your house… for free!

Have you considered solar energy for your home or business?  If a company’s given you an estimate for solar then

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Automotive Amnesty- Get a 15% break on those services you’ve been putting off

Every so often, we try to do something to help our clients with the high cost of keeping their vehicles

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Save Green By Driving Green- Save 10% on labor charges… oh, and save the planet too.

Many of our clients don’t know about one of our shop’s proudest accomplishments, a partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation to

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Welcome Back, Buddy- A photo essay on the Sellwood Bridge’s big move

The Sellwood Bridge, our rickety neighbor two blocks from the shop, opened ahead of schedule after a one week closure. 

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Conversation With Carl- The Lone Light of Progressive Talk in Portland returns to the air

At the far end of Division Street sits a small building with a banana on the side.  Once home to

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2012 Year In Review- Our Feature articles from 2012

It’s our privilege to send you this newsletter each month, and we don’t take that privilege lightly.  You didn’t have

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Sellwood Bridge Closure- The Sellwood Bridge is closed from Jan 17th -24th. Here’s what we’re doing about it.

January is a month for Your Car Matters to take it easy.  We have fun going back and looking at

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The KPOJ Debacle- Death comes to Progressive Talk in Portland

Well!  The Friday after the election turned out to be quite a day for us at the shop.  Obama had

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Icelandic Revolution- Iceland’s Crowd-sourced Constitution

“Inside Job”, the story of the 2008 global financial meltdown and its aftermath, opens with the story of Iceland.  Before

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