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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.

Health Notes- Small picture to big picture… in PICTURES!

Healthy living is different depending on how you look at it.  There’s the ‘small picture’ stuff that happens to us

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Sellwood Bridge Update- Save $200 during the upcoming Bridge Closure

Traffic on the Sellwood Bridge usually runs pretty smoothly despite the construction, but next week will be a little different. 

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Book Spotlight- “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Picketty

In the Afterword to his masterpiece “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, Robert Pirsig introduces us to a Swedish

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Humorousness- Mom Spotting

We just celebrated Mother’s Day, the day we set aside to honor Mom for all the work she does the

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Popcorn Shorts for May 2014

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- The BP Armageddon turns four

“News To Make You Furious” started in 2010 with the 20th anniversary of Exxon’s desecration of Prince William Sound and

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You love the Grid. The Man says so.

The Man’s fighting, but he may be losing. More people are moving to sustainable, or at least less-wasteful, lifestyles.  It

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The Dirty Truth About Fuel Injectors

(There’s a slightly updated version of this article available here) We’ve had many clients who have been sold fuel injection

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We sang the Healthcare Blues… and we liked it

Report back from the Healthcare Blues Fest April 5 was the third year for the blues festival with the longest

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Shop Talk- Save $100 in April

Save big now, and keep saving at the pump later If you read our article this month, you know a

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Your kids’ diapers are full of s#!+

Toxins in Huggies and Pampers Aren’t What You Want to Put Near Baby’s Skin Jill Richardson on Alternet, Feb 18,

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Sellwood Bridge Update- Computers power the reconstruction

There’s a saying that ‘the best vacations make the worst stories’.  If nothing goes wrong on your vacation, what do

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