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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.

Humorousness- The lighter side of Orwellian Hell

One of the oldest theories of comedy is that comedy is built on pain.  So, in keeping with our NSA

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Popcorn Shorts for July 2013

Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really

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News To Make You Furious- Small problems, big guns

This month’s NSA scandals alone were enough to fill several Furious columns, but with Snowden hogging the front page we

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Health Notes- Walk your way to health

Finally, finally, FINALLY it looks like the good weather is back!  Come October, are you going to look back on

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What NOW?!! Toon for June

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Tom’s Tidbits- Obama’s scandals cripple needed action

Greetings! It’s been a rough month for the Obama administration as they fight scandals on all fronts.  Whether it’s because

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Did you hear about the anti-Monsanto rallies? Neither did anyone else.

On May 25, a coordinated series of “March Against Monsanto” rallies were held in 436 cities in 52 countries around

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The Spotlight Falls On PHAME Again- “Bye Bye Birdie” opens June 22

Not to overstate the matter, but PHAME Academy is everything good about Portland wrapped up into one enthusiastically musical, toe-tapping,

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What ISN’T for sale? Are there some things beyond price? Should there be?

As an independent business, we’re big fans of a market-based economic economy, and we know that profit is a heck

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Shop Talk- Rodent of the month

The spring and summer is our busiest time here at the shop, which presents us with a bit of a

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Sellwood Bridge Update- Construction continuing smoothly

Last month we took you behind the construction fences to see bridge progress, but this month the most we can

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Book Spotlight- “The Death and Life of American Journalism” by Robert McChesney

We had a couple articles in this month’s newsletter that spotlighted particularly egregious flaws in journalism, so we felt it

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