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Could You Pass A US Citizenship Test?- Match wits with a Dwyer employee

When (or if) new immigrants finish the labyrinth leading to citizenship, there’s one last obstacle facing them that natural born citizens never have to think about: the Naturalization Test.  You may think you had a lot on the line in … Continue reading

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Maintain Your Advantage- Keeping your vehicle saves thousands over buying new

The Green Living Journal “offers solutions to the serious energy, health, and environmental problems facing all of us.”  (If you don’t already read it, you’re cheating yourself.  The Journal is FREE, and available at 550 locations around Portland.)  Each quarterly … Continue reading

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“What NOW?!! Toon” for August

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Tom’s Tidbits- Truth, Justice, or the American Way

Greetings! While we’re all waiting for the sentence in the Bradley Manning trial, I’d like to tell you a story.  It happened long ago, in a different country with radically different values than our own, but I think it still … Continue reading

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Car Of The Future- Kids designs for future transportation

We hope you got a chance to go to one of the free Sellwood Park Concerts this year.  We certainly did; we were there in our Tom Dwyer Booth to meet our neighbors at all five shows.  Perfect weather, good … Continue reading

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OMSI- Car of the Future

We were privileged to be at OMSI’s “Drive Revolution- The Future of Transportation” event last month, talking to folks about the importance of maintaining their vehicles today while they wait for the Electrics to become affordable tomorrow.  When we take … Continue reading

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Carl’s Comedy Concert

We were privileged to be at Carl’s Comedy Concert on July 18.  Here are a few of our pix from the show.  Too bad we couldn’t take a picture of a joke, there were a lot of good ones flying … Continue reading

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Tom’s Tidbits- Snowden and the NSA… keep your eye on the ball

Greetings! Did Edward Snowden watch and learn from the lessons of Bradley Manning?  More importantly, have we? Manning leaked information to WikiLeaks anonymously, and it wasn’t until his arrest two months later that we learned his name.  That was the … Continue reading

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Keith Tucker’s “What NOW?!! Toon” for July

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Orwell Was An Optimist

The best articles on the evolving NSA scandal Edward Snowden’s allegations about the NSA are so serious and pervasive that the only person who looks to have been ahead of the curve is Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theorist whack job.  Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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