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8211 SE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97202

8am - 6pm Monday - Friday
Office Only: 8am - 11am Saturday

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Tom's Blog

From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Who do you trust?

Our answer to a client’s important question One of the biggest complaints about the auto repair industry is the habit

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Does Baby Need A New Pair of Shoes?

How to pick the right tires for your vehicle Our recent cold weather snap was blessedly ice-free, but ice and

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Drew’s Kitchen- Cheddar scalloped potatoes

Have you been hitting the Christmas party circuit?  It’s against the rules to show up empty-handed, but the Fred Meyer fruitcakes

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Shop Talk- Keeping the Washington 522 debate alive

         Keeping the Washington 522 debate alive When Washington proposed labeling of GMO foods, we thought it

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Sellwood Bridge Update- New traffic signal makes life easier

The Sellwood Bridge Project is continuing quietly along.  The project is more than 40% complete with the new bridge on

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Health Notes- Keep all your eggs in one basket

Americans-  Why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? December 7, 2013, By Dr. Joseph Mercola on Mercola.com If you’re an

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Book Spotlight- “The Crash of 2013” by Thom Hartmann

What’s coming up in the future?  We’ve got our fingers crossed that the new XRAY-FM will bring Thom Hartmann back

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Humorousness- Christmas Ho Ho Ho’s

Does the coming Christmas holiday fill you with warm memories of family and friends?  Or, does it fill you with

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Popcorn Shorts December 2013

Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really need a large article

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News To Make You Furious- Prisons for profit update!

In March, we tried to fulminate your fury with a report on “Prisons for Profit”.  We started the article with

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Tom’s Tidbits- An informed citizenry is a pesky thing

Greetings! A few issues combine this month to illustrate ways our society is damaged.  We are systematically being deprived of

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What NOW?!! Toons November 2013

What does this have to do with Robert Reich?  He wrote an article on Huffington Post with solid numbers and

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