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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.

Tom’s Tidbits- The Election is here. Time to vote… and to party!

Greetings! Another election is just weeks away.  Although the media is still painting the two parties as equivalent, I see

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Tom’s Tidbits- Getting ready for the new Sellwood Bridge

Greetings! It’s hard to live in Portland and not have heard about the Sellwood Bridge.  The busiest two-lane bridge in

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Tom’s Tidbits- Repeal and Replace with SINGLE PAYER!

Greetings! ObamaCare has been found constitutional, but the uproar for “Repeal and Replace” continues.  How it would be repealed is

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Tom’s Tidbits- Don’t get taken for a ride by vehicle “enhancers”

Greetings! I’ve noticed a new wave of cynical ads swamping radio, TV, and web for Fuel Optimizers and DIY Air

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Tom’s Tidbits- Bringing the Fukushima disaster home

Greetings! The United States has just licensed the first new nuclear plants since 1975, two reactors at Plant Vogtle in

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Tom’s Tidbits- Is Equal Protection a lie?

Greetings! Equal application of law is one of the most basic foundations of a functional society.  Without equal justice there

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Tom’s Tidbits- Am I just a shill for Saddam?

Greetings! I’m not afraid to take strong stances on political and social issues.  Today’s environment usually finds me in the

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Tom’s Tidbits- DON’T WORRY! We’ll still service your older vehicles!

Greetings! I’ve heard some misconceptions from clients that I wanted to clear up. It seems our 1998 and newer policy

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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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Tom’s Tidbits- De-Occupation

Greetings! The nation-wide Occupation met strong resistance as cities used the excuses of safety and sanitation to trump constitutionally protected

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Tom’s Tidbits- No change until THIS change…

DON’T FORGET! ELECTIONS NOVEMBER 8, 2011! Greetings! We’ve done quite a bit of material on the Occupy movement.  It’s a

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Tom’s Tidbits- Going Postal

Greetings! I conducted a personal survey of friends and family, asking “what do you think about the current situation with

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