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Entries from November 16th, 2009

Palin ads draw complaints

November 16th, 2009 · 10 Comments · General

I hear your pain. Google’s flood of ABC News/Sarah Palin ads took me by surprise this morning. Enough is enough, right? I’ve followed the instructions to block further appearances of this ad. The instructions warn that there’s a delay before the ads are blocked. Hopefully it won’t be a long delay!

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Furloughs as boondoggle?

November 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics

We were sitting here over a few cups of coffee digesting the morning news when Meda suddenly sputtered and shook the copy of the Advertiser at me. She pointed to a long sentence in Derrick DePledge’s story on Department of Education furloughs. “This makes no sense,” she said, and read the sentence back to me. [...]

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The “L” words went missing from Hawaii Tourism Authority story

November 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

I was very interested in Chad Blair’s story, “Tourism 101 tour aims to make legislative friends“, which appeared in the November 6 issue of Pacific Business News. [I don't know if the link will work for non-subscribers, but give it a try.] The story describes an ongoing “series of informal briefings and Q&A’s” put on [...]

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News from the NW–Glanville may get the boot from Portland State, and thinking through issues of schools vs. poverty

November 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · General, Politics

Monday morning, time to browse the news in the Pacific Northwest, something I try to do several times a week. The Oregonian (Portland) is reporting that Portland State University’s athletic director will make a decision soon on whether to fire football coach Jerry Glanville, who took over at PSU after a stint as defensive coordinator [...]

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