Alina Harway

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Ezra Klein nails it

Ezra Klein had a fantastic analysis in the Washington Post earlier this week on the nation's education crisis. “Why are teachers being fired?” he wondered.

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Bitter, exhausting, and lamentable

Oh, for crying out loud…

I guess the new ultra-conservative Editor of the Editorial Board over at the Oregonian has officially started. Did you see this morning’s editorial?

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The Bright Side of Life

Let’s face it, the news today can be downright depressing. It’s important to remember that things aren’t all bad — in fact, there are some really great things happening around us all the time. Introducing, The Bright Side of Life!

Happy Friday, folks! Here are a few stories that brightened things up around the OO office this week:

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How to Actually Improve our Economy? Try investing in it.

Last week, when Mitt Romney effectively called for fewer firefighters, police, and teachers, the buzzword used to describe his remarks was "gaffe"-- as if he simply misspoke, rather than acurately reflecting a key part of his campaign platform.

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Big Bucks for Redundant Idea and Mystery Signature Firm

The first ballot measure to qualify for November’s ballot comes in the form of a proposed ban on real estate transfer fees, backed by the Oregon Realtors Association.

Jeff Mapes at the Oregonian reports: “The Oregon Legislature has already prohibited localities from levying new real estate transfer fees.  But Realtors said they wanted to ensure that the Legislature would not turn to this form of taxation.” 

In other words, the initiative would ban something that’s already not allowed by Oregon law. Despite that, the Realtors campaign spent nearly $1 million to gather signatures and qualify their initiative.

How does that compare to other initiative petition campaigns?

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The New Face of the Oregonian: A Five-Part Series

Last month, the Oregonian announced that they had hired the Bend Bulletin’s Erik Lukens to be the paper’s new Editorial Page Editor. At the time, we wrote that it signaled a further shift to the right for the state’s “paper of record.”

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The Bright Side of Life

Let’s face it, the news today can be downright depressing. It’s important to remember that things aren’t all bad — in fact, there are some really great things happening around us all the time. Introducing, The Bright Side of Life!

Happy Friday, folks! Here are a few stories that brightened things up around the OO office this week:

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The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting hungrier

There's no way around it: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting hungrier.

Feeding America has released their latest "Map the Meal" report. The results for Oregon? 

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Oregon's Growing Economy

According to the most recent reports from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Oregon's economy grew at a rate of 4.7% in 2011. Tough to conceptualize what that means? How's this map for some context:

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The New Face of the Oregonian, Part 3: "Down with Taxes (Unless You are Poor)"

Last month, the Oregonian announced that they had hired the Bend Bulletin’s Erik Lukens to be the paper’s new Editorial Page Editor. At the time, we wrote that it signaled a further shift to the right for the state’s “paper of record.”

In the weeks since, we’ve conducted research into the editorials that came out under Lukens’ direction and have found that it’s even more extreme than we originally thought. On every issue that matters to most Oregonians, Lukens and the Bulletin editorial board took a far-right position that is completely at odds with the Oregonian’s readership.

This is part three of a five-part series.

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