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IN BRIEF
Portland lawyer gives
free advice on bike laws
PORTLAND — An attorney who
claims police unfairly target fellow bi
cyclists on the road is making his
case in court, free of charge.
Mark Ginsberg, 34, has represented
dozens of bicycle riders ticketed over
the years during a monthly group bicy
cle ride called Critical Mass.
Imported from San Francisco more
than a decade ago, Critical Mass at its
peak drew more than 1,000 riders to
downtown Portland during the
evening rush hour on the last Friday
of every month.
But Portland police said Critical
Mass is a public safety problem,
snarling traffic and frustrating driv
ers. There also have been a few re
ports of vandalized cars.
After years of trying to manage the
Friday traffic problems, the police
cracked down on the bicyclists a few
years ago.
“We tried to work with them. We
tried to ignore them. We tried to
reach compromises with them,” said
Sgt. Brian Schmautz, spokesman for
the Portland Police Bureau. “We
found ourselves with the one thing
left to do: Enforce the law.”
Ginsberg, however, said the crack
down amounts to harassment, with
police issuing tickets to bikers they
would never hand out to motorists.
Ginsberg has emerged as the unofficial
lawyer for Critical Mass, dispensing
free legal advice on bike laws and de
fending citations he thinks he can beat.
“I think its about fair enforcement
of the law — or lack of fair enforce
ment of the law,” he said.
Ginsberg fights only a small frac
tion of Critical Mass tickets, but his
clients and supporters say he is mak
ing an important point.
“The police can’t do whatever they
want,” said Aaron De Clerck, 29, a
computer specialist and teacher at
Linfield College’s Portland campus
who recently went to court to chal
lenge a citation. “There are still some
checks to police power. ”
But the police strategy appears to be
having an effect. The annual Hal
loween ride organized by Critical Mass
drew only about 100 riders last month.
It also produced the first citation
against Ginsburg since he joined the
monthly ride.
Outgoing president
endorses a new election
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Supreme
Court gave the prime minister’s legal
team until Tiiesday to study evidence
of fraud presented by the opposition in
last week’s presidential election, while
outgoing President Leonid Kuchma en
dorsed the idea of a new vote
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vided former Soviet republic.
Kuchma, who has called for com
promise throughout the crisis, said
Monday a new vote might be the
only way to resolve the week-long
standoff in which tens of thousands
of opposition supporters have
blocked official buildings in the capi
tal and eastern provinces are threat
ening to seek autonomy.
The demonstrations continued
Monday night as throngs packed
snowy Kiev’s Independence Square,
waving Ukrainian flags and orange
flags showing their support for oppo
sition candidate Viktor Yushchenko,
who addressed them. The defense
minister said the army would not use
force against the people, the Interfax
news agency reported.
Medical marijuana clash
reaches Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The
Supreme Court questioned whether
state medical marijuana laws might
be abused by people who aren’t real
ly sick as it debated on Monday
whether the federal government can
prosecute patients who smoke pot on
doctors’ orders.
The stakes are high on both the
government level — 11 states have
passed medical marijuana laws since
1996 — and the personal.
In the courtroom watching the argu
ment was Angel Raich, an Oakland,
Calif., mother of two who said she
tried dozens of prescription medicines
to ease the pain of a brain tumor and
other illnesses before she turned to
marijuana. She and another ill
woman, Diane Monson, filed a lawsuit
to protect their access to the drug after
federal agents confiscated marijuana
plants from Monson’s yard.
Their attorney, Randy Barnett of
Boston, told the justices that his
clients are law-abiding citizens who
need marijuana to survive. Marijua
na may have some negative side ef
fects, he said, but seriously sick peo
ple are willing to take the chance
because the drug helps them more
than traditional medicines.
NBC executive's son
feared dead after jet crash
MONTROSE, Colo. — The 14-year
old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick
Ebersol was presumed dead Monday
after a fiery jet crash that killed two
crewmen and injured the executive
and another of his sons.
The aircraft with six people on
board crashed during a snowstorm
Sunday while taking off from the air
port outside this small town 185
miles southwest of Denver. Federal
authorities had no immediate word
on the cause of the crash.
With light snow falling, crews
began picking through the charred
pile of twisted metal and a 6-foot
high shard of the fuselage with
three gaping, round windows.
The two engines lay on the ground
near the tail section where they had
been mounted. A backhoe was
brought in to help dig through the
wreckage, found near a cattle pen in
a snow-covered field dotted with
knee-high weeds.
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Carlos Gutierrez named
Secretary of Commerce
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President
Bush on Monday chose Carlos
Gutierrez, a native of Cuba who rose
from truck driver to chief executive
officer of Kellogg Co., to be secretary
of commerce.
If confirmed by the Senate, Gutier
rez would succeed Commerce Secre
tary Donald Evans, a Texas confidant
of Bush’s, who announced his resig
nation shortly after the Nov. 2 elec
tion. The president called Gutierrez,
51, a “great American success story. ”
Gutierrez is the first new member
of Bush’s economics team for his
second term. Bush’s chief econom
ics adviser, Stephen Friedman, an
nounced last week that he is leav
ing. Other changes also are
anticipated, although Treasury Sec
retary John Snow would like to stay.
— The Associated Press
Kellogg boss tapped for Commerce
Education - Studied business
administration at Monterrey Institute of
Technology, Queretaro, Mexico
Experience — Kellogg de Mexico: sales
representative to general manager,
1975-89; Kellogg Canada president and
chief executive, 1989-90; Kellogg USA.
corporate vice president to general
manager of cereal division, 1990-94;
Kellogg Asia-Pacific president, 1994
96; Kellogg USA: executive vice
president of business development to
chief executive officer; 1996-2004
President Bush chose Cuban native Carlos
Gutierrez, 51, to be Commerce secretary.
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