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Actually recycling is easy for me. There's a center nearby where you just drive in and dump your containers, no questions asked. I've actually started recycling more than I did.

posted 4 years, 5 months ago
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This issue reminds me of what Richard Nixon used to say. He said if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide which makes me think the police feel they have something to hide. They need to remember they may have the law on their side now, but if they anger enough people, there is something in this state called the initiative process.

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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I'll admit, Californians are an easy scapegoat for all that ails Oregon and I too have said there are too many Californians moving up here. The funny thing is if you go around the country, there are other examples of superiority complexes between states. For example, when I was in Charlotte, NC I met a woman who actually lived in the Portland area for a while and she talked about a similar relationship between the peoples of North and South Carolina. The north would put down the south and she actually cited the relationship between Oregon and California as being similar. I knew then she had actually lived here for a while if she knew about that.

posted 5 years, 4 months ago
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