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There was a great article in Fast Company (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/the-real-story-on-bpa.html) on how the plastics industry has prevented BPA from being banned, despite plenty of real science pointing to real dangers.  It is a very sad indictment of how our regulatory agencies function.

Hopefully, these bills will lead to banning all BPA in food containers.  Time to go back to glass and tin in our canned goods containers.

posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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I know that the private colleges in the NW are alwasy desperate to build ethnic diversity in their student bodies.  For someone like Jennifer, I'd think Whitman, Reed and Willamette would be falling over themselves to offer her a full ride.  Are they being prevented because some of the aid they'd use in their package requires legal status?

I support the bill - we're talking about a tiny number of students (that will hopefully grow), who are likely to be very valuable to our state and country. 

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The Comcast rep is used to dealing with these questions and spouting the same "effective" but completely wrong answers.

- The quality for any game they don't put on the HD channel is terrible. It was not just a couple where they had meltdowns (such as Dec 8). He's trying to blame overall poor service on a couple of instances where they were really bad.

- Comcast is right that it is a very popular option with high ratings. That should, however, be an argument for lowering the price to distributors and making money off of advertising, or making all sports channels a la cart. The latter is something Comcast is fighting tooth-and-nail with the FCC.

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Comcast trying to hold onto customers in Portland is definitely one of the biggest reasons for why they are making the terms unacceptable to Dish and Direct.

I'm sure Comcast is very sorry that Verizon took the deal.

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