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(Tiu’ A pril 23. 2008 Dear Deanna! 26-year-old Confession Sets Inmate F ree I have to choose who I want to marry. I have a childhood friend that would love to be with me but I d o n 't feel any firew orks for him. I really want to marry my ex-boy- | friend but I know he would only marry me for stability since he has a history of unem ploym ent. I am so anxious to becom e a married w oman but I'm having a tough tim e with this decision. Neither man has expressed this interest so 1 will be the one proposing. Who do I choose? -M a rria g e C onfu sion; O n-Line Reader Portland man sees justice for his brother (A P )— A Portland m an' s brother who was locked away 26 years for m urder was granted a new trial and freed on bond Friday with the help o f two attorneys w hoeam e forward with a client's confession after he died in prison. Alton Logan's family took up a collection in the lobby o f the C ook County C rim inal C ourthouse in Chicago and quickly cam e up with the $ I ,<X X) they needed to post bond. A dozen friends and family broke into applause as Logan, 54, exited the building. He tearfully said it felt "great" to be free before he was whisked aw ay in a black SUV. Logan's younger brother, Eu gene Logan o f Portland, w as.ada- mant that he would be freed after his retrial. "Nobody deserves to be locked aw ay for 26 years for som ething they didn't do," said Logan, 48. "It's a blessing today that my brother's been released. He's not been exon erated yet, but w e're going back to court, and it will happen." Tw o attorneys recently revealed that their form er client, Andrew Pauline Buccanan (from left) Janet Logan and Eugene Logan cry as their brother is freed from the Cook County Jail in Chicago. W ilson, adm itted to com m itting the crim e that has sent Logan to prison, but attorney-client privilege had kept them from com ing forward. W ilson’s death last year allow ed the attorneys to unseal an affidavit stating that Logan was not respon sible for the fatal shooting o f secu rity guard Lloyd W ickliffe at a M cD onald’s restaurant in Chicago in January 1982. Dale C oventry, one o f the attor neys who signed the affidavit, said Friday night that he hopes pros ecutors will acknow ledge they went in the wrong direction with the case. "Poor Mr. Logan was locked up all these years for som ething he did n ’t do and that's unfortunate that it w orked out the way it did," Coventry said. "I wish (therelease) had happened a lot sooner, but unfortunately there was no way to do anything." Logan's uncle, A rthur G ordon, 70, o f M ilwaukee, Wise, waited outside the jail, saying he knew his nephew was innocent. "I knew he didn't do that be cause I had been talking to him over the years," Gordon said. "He kept his spirit. He said, 'Uncle I have to stay up. I can't go down. I can't go down."' Eugene Logan says he hopes to eventually have his brother move to Portland to live. "I'm going to turn him on to life," he said. "That's what we're going to do. W e’re going to live it together." slurs at him in M ay 1991. "It's like a ton off my shoulders," Patterson said on the jail steps as he waited for a ride from a brother and sister-in-law he hadn't seen in a de cade. "Now I don't have to w orry.” Since that night his life was one o f peaks o f jobs and sobriety, can yons o f alcohol and drug relapses. He said it has taken this long to follow through on the A lcoholics and N arcotics A nonym ous step program. Ask Deanna ! Real People, Real Advice advice column known Jo r reality based subjects! .t/i ter and should invest tim e in build ing a loving relationship with som e one that has love, trust, respect and a joint decision for com m itm ent and matrimony. Dear Confusion: Dear Deanna! Y ou are missing the major dynam ics o f m arriage such as a mutual agreem ent and o f course, a loving com m itted relationship. This is a union from G od and not to be taken lightly or as a game. Your childhood friend do esn 't deserve heartbreak and your ex-boyfriend would use you. You deserve bet- My boyfriend will not tell me that he loves me. I have been with him for three years and he alw ays tells me that his presence should answer the question. He has verbally said he loves me about five times. W e've had our problem s with cheating and hreak-ups but w e're still to gether. I w ant to head in the d irec Killing Ruled Self Defense Grand jury clears man (A P) — D avid Lee Paterson turned him self into Texas authori ties a m onth ago, adm itting to kill ing a man in Portland nearly 17 years ago. Thursday a M ultnom ah County grand jury declined to file charges against him. believing his claim o f self defense. Patterson,60. shot and killed Eric Lam on, 21, when Lam on kicked Patterson aw ake as he slept hom e less outside a dow ntow n Portland funeral home and shouted racial Page A3 ^Jnrtlanb ©bseruer "I always got to the step where you make am ends, and couldn’t go forward," Patterson said. "I never could get to that because I feared that no one would believe me." Patterson plans to stay in Port land, find work and reunite with his two daughters in M emphis, Tenn., who are in the mid-30s. He hasn't seen them since they were 9 or 10. “ W hen you tell the tru th ,” P atterso n said , “you c a n ’t go w rong.” tion of com m itm ent but I need to address his feelings first. How do I find out his true feelings for m e? - -Adrienne; Colum bia, SC Dear Adrienne: The things your boyfriend isn ’t saying speak the loudest. Y o u ’ve allowed this behavior in the rela tionship and at this point, th ere’s a small chance h e’ll change. You have rights in this relationship and deserve to know his feelings and intentions. You need to be direct and tell him how you feel, what you want and yourexpectations on love and marriage. Be prepared if you d o n 't get the answ ers you seek and you have to decide to stay or keep it moving Ask Deanna is written by Deanna M. Write Ask Deanna! Email: askdeanna I (gyahoo.com or 264 S. LaCienega Blvd. Suite 1283 Beverly Hills. CA 90211. Website: www, askdeanna. com five cents... •On May 1, the price of an Adult cash fare will increase one nickel. Monthly passes, and special reduced fares will Increase too. • C-TRAN's Go Anywhere Day Pass, C-Zone Day Pass, and Express fares will not increase. •Visit www.c-tran.com or call 360.695.0123 for more information. <c> C-TRAN In flu e n c in g P u b lic Policy continued fro m Front the Portland Observer. He said one o f the most critical issues on the planning commission will be figuring out how to absorb a huge number o f people who will be coming here to live in years tocome. The new arrivals are expected from all com ers of the world, including Latin America, Russia and Vietnam. "W e need to help them blend in, but still preserve the opportunity for them to house their cultures in our city,” Baugh said. Another issue is what he calls addressing transportation in a holis tic sense - not choosing freeways, light rail, bicycles and walking as "one mode over another, but how to make it all work.” Transportation and land use are closely linked, Baugh says. “It used to be that if railroads didn't build a rail line through your town, the town died," he says. "Then development was based on the In terstate highway system. Now we have to decide where we place the density. If housing is built around the freeway system, how do we make i t more I i vable? I f we can ’ t sol vc that, the city starts to die because no one wants to live there. We need to make this a prosperous city, a desirable place for people who want to move here and people who have always lived here." Baugh foresees a Portland city where you can raise your children, and pursue your second, third or fourth careers. "W e need an array o f housing types, not just $2 million penthouses, and an array o f jobs that include skilled blue collar jobs," he says. Baugh was bom in North Dakota, but his family moved to Oregon when he was two. He grew up in several cities, including Eugene and Sea- side, graduated from high school in Astoria, and graduated from the University o f Oregon with a degree in political science. He worked for W eyerhaeuser for 17 years, while living in Eugene, before he was hired to Portland to manage a pilot Skinny Streets project in the Brentwood- Darlington neighborhood. “I wanted to move to Portland, and the project sounded interest ing," he says. He later managed the redesign of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, replacing the median strips w ith smaller medians to allow for on-street parking at stra tegic locations. Still later he participated in the sitting o f a new Multnomah County Public Library in the Hillsdale neigh borhood, a highly contentious issue that involved transportation consid erations. “ I didn't so much make decisions as implement them," Baugh says. "It does enlighten me today on the de cisions I'll be making for the Plan ning Commission. I could see the direct impact o f these projects on residents and businesses because the changes occurred right in front o f their doors.” When he left the transportation department, he was one o f several people who questioned Portland Development Commission policies and progress about affirmative ac tion on city-financed projects. Today Baugh says, “From what I've seen front the outside, they've taken this seriously, and put it at the director's level. If it's part o f the business practices that you do ev ery day. change will come about, and they've made this part of business practices." Looking ahead. Baugh says, "I like Portland and it's great to be living here, but we face some serious challenges in the years ahead." PRESENTS ODYSS hosted by The Links, Inc. Portland Chapter Benefit Of; Links Educational/Scholarship Fund The D oubletree Inn-Lloyd Center I (XX) N.E. M ultnom ah. Portland, OR Friday, April 2 5 ,2(X)8 • 8:00p.m . 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