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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.

Tom’s Tidbits- Waging a smarter response

Greetings! We join the rest of the world this week in support of the victims of the French terrorist attacks. 

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Tom’s Tidbits- Connecting the Dots

Greetings! Several stories in the news recently may not seem related, but I think there’s a deep link. One was

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Tom’s Tidbits- Kids For Cash Update

Greetings! Remember the “Kids For Cash” scandal?  Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan were caught taking millions of dollars in

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Comparing apples and oranges

Greetings! We’re still 16 months out from the Presidential election, but it sure didn’t look like it last week.  There’s

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Tom’s Tidbits- Green Job Creation

Greetings! Yesterday was a good day for Oregon because a completely useless and damaging law was changed.  While I won’t

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Tom’s Tidbits for June

Hopefully… a look beyond the labels Greetings! I try to view the world without the distortion of a “Left” or

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Tom’s Tidbits- Trans-Pacific Tidbits

Greetings! Here’s a rule that’s served me well over the years… whenever someone tries to rush me into signing something,

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Tom’s Tidbits- More noise, less news

More noise, less news Greetings! Despite the humiliation of the letter from the 47 Senators last month, and hopefully with

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Tom’s Tidbits- 47 Senators wrote a letter to regret

Republicans and Democrats disagree about everything, but at the center of any argument there’s usually some central idea that transcends

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Tom’s Tidbits- A “thank you” to be proud of

Greetings! I enjoy this “Tidbits” column because it usually gives me a chance to vent a little bit of frustration,

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Tom’s Tidbits for January 2015

Hope for 2015?  Don’t hope.  Get involved! Greetings! As I sat down to write this month’s Tidbits, I learned that

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Tom’s Tidbits- Pardon Bush and Cheney

Greetings! Every apologist for the Bush/Cheney Torture Report starts with “Let’s go back to the fearful days after 9-11…” The

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