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IN FRIDAY'S NOOZE
November 23rd, 2007 by Clark Humphrey

  • PORTAND LEADERS WANTED to score PR points with local Latinos by renaming a city street after labor leader Cesar Chavez. Unfortunately, the street they chose is the main street of Portland’s small but fabulous Chinatown, whose supporters didn’t like the idea too much.
  • Should drivers on SR520 help pay for a new bridge via tolls? Some state officials are looking into it. But complications have already arisen: Wouldn’t more drivers just switch to the I-90 bridge? And if you charge tolls on both Lake Washington spans, how do you convince the regular I-90 commuters that they’re getting something out of it?
  • Remember when the Lou Dobbs crowd worried as all get-out about Japanese companies buying up American companies? It’s not happening anymore, at least not so much. And, yes, a different gang of pundits calls it cause for alarm.
  • While the Fun Forest is still apparently doomed, there’s cause for hope that a city-run skate park might, at long last, have found a home.
  • A man in Michigan “ays he shot and killed a neighbor’s cow after mistaking it for a coyote.” The trouble came when he saw the cow opening up a large wooden crate labeled “One (1) ACME Barbed-Wire Fence Disintegrator.”

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