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This is a perfect example of our misplaced priorities when it comes to food safety. Instead of busting an innocent girl for selling lemonade, our health officials should stop giant corporations from putting high-fructose corn syrup and unnecessary (and unsafe) food additives in those nasty little packets of lemonade mix. Let children be children and get the additives, chemicals and carcinogens out of our food.

posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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Also--I was reading a post on Willamette Week's website yesterday (you can read it here: http://wweek.com/wwire/?p=19857) and noticed this paragraph: "All this comes two days after Mayor Sam Adams confessed to having lied about having sex with a teenager." A TEENAGER?!?! He was 18. Last time I checked, 18 was a legal ADULT. Just because you say "-teen" when you say 18, doesn't mean that the word "teenager" isn't entirely misleading and unfair.

(Full disclosure: I am a former Willamette Week intern.)

posted 4 years, 4 months ago
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Show me ONE person who has never lied about details of his or her sex life. I really don't understand why seemingly all of Portland has their panties in a bundle about this. Sam didn't do anything illegal--why on this once-green Earth should he resign?!

posted 4 years, 4 months ago
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