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October 5, 2011
Football Song Pulled
Week in
The Review
ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s classic intro
song from its broadcast of Monday night's
NFL game after the country singer famous
for the line "Are you ready for some foot­
ball?" used an analogy to Adolf Hitler to
accuse President Barack Obama of being the
enemy to Republican leaders.
Mom Kicked Off Bus for Crying Baby
The Tri Met driver who kicked a mother and
her baby off a bus in Hillsboro has been put
on administrative leave. Passengers said the
wom an's baby was crying on the No. 57 bus
last Thursday night and the driver told her
that if she couldn’t keep her baby quiet she’d
have to get off the bus.
Accused of Insensitivity
Occupy Portland Protest
Supporters of the Occupy Wall Street dem­
onstrations in New York are organizing an
Occupy Portland event for Thursday. In
New York, 7(M) people were arrested over the
weekend in protests against corporate greed.
Police in Portland are trying to get the group
to obtain a permit for a safe and peaceful and
lawful event.
New iPhone Introduced
Apple Inc. unveiled a new iPhone on Tues­
day that is faster and more powerful but
stops short of a more radical upgrade. The
new iPhone 4S also has an improved camera
with a higher-resolution sensor.
R e p u b lic a n
Gov. Rick Perry,
a candidate for j
the GOP presi­
dential nomina­
tion, took criti­
cism over the
weekend for a
rock outside the
Texas hunting
camp his family
once leased that had the name Niggerhead
painted on it. Rival Herman Cain, the only
black Republican in the race, says the rock
symbolizes Perry's insensitivity to race.
Obama Renews Jobs Push
President Barack Obama challenged Repub­
lican leaders in Congress on Tuesday to put
his entire $447 billion jobs plan to a vote,
rather than breaking it up, to show where
each lawmaker stands. The Republican ma­
jority leader in Congress, Eric Cantor, said
that right now, he won't even let the jobs bill
have a vote.
Bernanke says Deep Cuts
Would Hurt Economy
Federal Reserve Chairm an Ben Bernanke
is reiterating that Congress should not cut
spending sharply while the econom y is
weak because it would impede the recov­
ery. But he said eventually law m akers
should cut spending more deeply than the
$ 1.5 trillion in deficit cuts being sought by
a special panel.
Fight for Justice Earns Honors
Law school
hands out special
recognition
From fighting the tobacco indus­
try to educating others about the
important role of diversity, three
Oregon lawyers were recognized
Saturday for their tremendous ef­
forts, generosity, and commitment
to justice at the 38th annual Distin­
guished Honors Dinner for the
Northwestern School of Law at
Lewis & Clark College.
School Dean Robert Klonoff and
the Alumni Board of Directors hon­
ored graduates Charles S. Tauman
77, Nancy S. Tauman 7 8 and distin­
guished honorary graduate, the
Honorable Adrienne C. Nelson.
Charles Tauman has spent more
than 30 years fighting for the rights
of workers, consumers, and the in­
jured because of his belief that the
Adrienne Nelson was bom in
Kansas City, Mo. She participated
in the Arkansas Governor's program
for gifted and talented students and
became the first African-American
valedictorian at her high school
since integration.
In 2006, Gov. Ted Kulongoski
appointed her as a general ju ris­
diction judge to the M ultnomah
County Circuit Court bench, m ak­
ing her the second African A m eri­
can fem ale judge in the state of
Oregon.
Nelson earned her Doctor of Ju­
risprudence degree from the Uni­
versity of Texas at Austin and her
Adrienne Nelson
Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Charles Tauman
Nancy Tauman
and Criminal Justice Summa Cum
doors of the courtrooms should be is a state and national leader on sonal injury work, and contracts.
Laude from the University of Ar­
open to all citizens - both the pow­ tobacco issues.
A volunteer with Portland's First kansas.
erless and the powerful.
His wife, Nancy Tauman gradu­ Presbyterian Church, she provides
She is frequently a presenter on
For the last 12 years, he has been ated from the law school cum laude outreach to the urban needy and
the issue of diversity and was an
fighting one of the most powerful in 1978 and her practice has included works with the Jewish Federation of
adjunct professor for the law school
industries in the U.S. - the tobacco education law, health law, employ­ Portland to address community con­
where she taught a seminar on criti­
industry - as a sole practitioner, and ment law, civil rights litigation, per­ cerns.
cal race theory.
Washington State
Minimum Wage to Rise
W ashington’s m inim um wage will increase to $9.04
per hour b eg in n in g Jan. 1.
The 3 7-cent increase reflects a 4.258 percen t in ­
crease in the C o n su m er Price Index w hich is used to
m easure in flatio n .
Students from Gilbert Park Elementary School in southeast Portland jo in City Commission Nick Fish and
officials from Safeway for a $20,000 donation from Safeway to the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
Portland Wins Safeway Contest
Portland voters recently rallied to
make the Rose City the winner of
Safeway’s “America’s Most Natural
City” Facebook contest which garnered
the city’s parks and recreation depart
ment a $20,000 donation.
During a cerem ony on Monday,
Safeway handed over an oversized check
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to Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish
as he led a dedication ceremony an-
nouncing a new cedar chip track, park
benches and other amenities at Gilbert
Park Elementary School and adjacent
Gilbert Primary Park in southeast Port­
land.
Portland Parks & Recreation will also
be receiving 25 picnic tables to be use
all around the city’s parks.
The contest’s celebration of all thing
natural was inspired by Safe way’scorn
mitment to bringing 100 percent all-natu
ral foods to store shelves with its ne\
Open Nature products line, which ar
free from artificial ingredients - no artifi
cial flavors, sweeteners, additives, an
preservatives.
According to the Washington Bureau of Labor Statis­
tics, over the last 12 months the prices of most categories
of consumer goods rose. The largest cost increases oc­
curred for fuels and the lowest cost increases were for
education and communication services.
W ashington is one o f 10 states that ad ju sts the
m inim um wage based on in flatio n and the C PI. The
oth ers are O regon A rizona, C o lo rad o , F lorida, M is­
souri, M ontana, N evada, O hio, and V erm ont.
Washington has the highest minimum wage in the coun­
try, followed by Oregon which recently announced that its
minimum wage will rise 30 cents to $8.80 an hour in 2012.