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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- Not the “Project for a New American Century” they bargained for!

Greetings! It’s not long now.  In just a few short weeks Donald J. Trump will become the 45th President of

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Tom’s Tidbits- Can the Mail save Representative Democracy?

Aristotle saw two ways of maintaining societies with great wealth discrepancies:  either reduce the inequality or reduce democracy.  By and

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Tom’s Tidbits- Trump may be smart, but we need to be smarter.

Greetings! They say that when you point one finger, three more point back at you.  With that in mind I’d

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Endless war. Endless squandered opportunity.

Greetings! America is currently at war with between 0 and 134 countries.  Constitutionally-required Declarations Of War may be passé, but

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What’s happening to the Rule of Law?

Greetings! The Rule of Law, the quaint idea that societies should be governed by objective laws instead of the whims

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Tom’s Tidbits- Past is Prologue

Greetings! Are we the United States of Amnesia, creatively rewriting our stories to soften their marks on history?  We’re a

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Tom’s Tidbits- Space… The Fiscal Frontier

Greetings! Most people don’t pay attention to our military space program.  If you’re like me, you didn’t even know we

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Tom’s Tidbits- Business Healthcare Blues

Greetings! On a 1980 relief mission to Uganda, Dick Gregory told Thom Hartmann; “I don’t know why America thinks she

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Tom’s Tidbits- Mitch McConnell’s slavish devotion to Joe Biden

Greetings! I never thought I’d see it… Mitch McConnell and the Senate Judiciary Committee have completely caved to the Democrats! 

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Tom’s Tidbits- Let’s make this easy for the pundits

Greetings! For the Punditocracy, the takeaway from the 2016 Primaries so far has been the inexplicable rise of the “outsider”

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Tom’s Tidbits- America’s Choices…

Greetings! The 2016 election is already being called “the most important election ever”, and while I think the elections around

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Tom’s Tidbits- The common sense of Donald Trump

Greetings! Entering the last Republican presidential debate, Donald J. Trump had a 27-point lead in the Republican presidential primary.  Polls

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