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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.

News To Make You Furious- Another Visit With ALEC… and a Travon Martin update!

In August, 2011, we introduced you to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the fine group of corporations working to

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News To Make You Furious- Depleted Uranium: Our billion year gift to the world.

In the 1970s, the Soviet military developed armor plating for their tanks that regular ammunition couldn’t penetrate. The Pentagon began looking

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Depleted Uranium- Our billion year gift to the world.

In the 1970s, the Soviet military developed armor plating for their tanks that regular ammunition couldn’t penetrate. The Pentagon began

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Our Gift

I’m Tom Dwyer, We pulled troops from Iraq, but left a gift that will keep giving for billions of years. 

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News To Make You Furious- A home for your outrage, if not your family

It seems like only yesterday that house values were plummeting, banks were being bailed out from their mortgage losses, and

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Biggest Stories of 2011- What made this year’s news in Your Car Matters

You want plumbing advice from your plumber, but do you want plumbing advice month after month?  You want to hear

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News To Make You Furious- Two “60 Minutes” Interviews YOU MUST SEE!

The decay in our democracy comes in two flavors: legal and illegal.  This month, CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed two of

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News To Make You Furious One man, one vote… more or less

Elections are the foundation of democracy.  Even when we have to hold our noses to do it, we cast our

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Occupy Portland- Report from the front lines of the Class War

Warren Buffett famously said “There IS a class war, and MY class is winning”.  The Occupy movement put that Class

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News To Make You Furious- OCCUPY Movement Spreads To Portland

“News to Make You Furious” is usually about the appalling things going on around us that no one pays any

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News To Make You Furious- The Climate Change Denial Machine

Science does not promise truth, and it never has.  Science gives the best possible explanation of reality, though that explanation

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News To Make You Furious- ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)

Most people have heard the “I’m Just A Bill” song on Schoolhouse Rock on Saturdays.  In this somewhat simplified version

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