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I would like to ask all the candidates if they would help to bring more high-tech jobs to the east side of Portland and Gresham areas. Right now many of the high-tech jobs are concentrated in Beaverton-Hillsboro and in the Wilsonville area. The east side has no comparable locus for high-tech.

I worry especially that if Tom Hughes were Metro president he would continue to push job growth in the Hillsboro area and continue to neglect the east side. 

posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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This discussion has been focused on an either/or debate between e-books and printed books. I see a lot of ways there can be a best of both worlds approach.

1. Buy the print copy and get the electronic copy too. I can go mobile, search, and read the print copy when I want, lend it, etc.

2. Print pictures, e-book the text. I'd love to see field guides with glorious pictures of the birds, flowers, animals, mollusks and an accompanying e-book with loads of text on said animals & birds. And search the e-book based on characteristics you see on a bird, say, and it gives you the pages to look up the picture in the print companion. Plus maps of the range in your area, not a microscopic map of all of North America with two dots of ink to indicate a species range.

This companion version would work well for photography, art, architecture, travel books, atlases. The print versions would still have the reference text in tiny print in the back, as many art books do now, but you could read it in normal text on your e-book.

Hmm- a boon for those rich, old people that were mentioned on the show so often. We'll all be old w/ feeble eyesight someday.

3. Technical books that are (closer to) up-to-date. As one comment on the show mentioned, e-books change the publishers capabilities for publishing editions. I have bought technical books several times that had only been out for a couple of months and were already out of date because of the lag in the writing, printing, and distribution of the book. The technology had already moved on. I would be willing to pay more for an e-book that would be more like a subscription to a book that would be updated.

posted 4 years ago
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I don't care for the 'Fais Do-Do' for a theme. I really like the tune, but everytime I hear it it is jarring for a lead in. Maybe you just crank it a bit too much. I feel like it is hard to listen to the lead-in of the host over it. I really don't think it meets the criteria you set up above of not being jarring.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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I don't think it needs to be a band. Pick the composition first and then get a band to play it. Or it could be entirely synthesized. One composer w/ a Mac or PC can do amazing stuff, esp. if they are good on keyboard.

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I just want to add my agreement to all points in this posting. I posted earlier in this thread and had many of the same points.

Regarding the planning of the show, I also agree. This show has potential, but I listen to it painfully. It rambles a lot. It seems often the back stories go on too long and it takes 20 minutes to get into any real meat. Also, it feels like the hosts don't really have a good idea where they want to go and let the conversation drift as they follow an extemporaneous trail of some comment made by a guest. This is off topic for the Gorge, so I will end here, but I feel the show needs to sharpen up if it is to survive.

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I agree with the concern about emissions in the Gorge on both a local and global level. I could see enough traffic from a casino to create significant smog in the gorge which would be completely at odds with the preservation goals of the natl scenic designation. ALSO, look at the example of the casino in Grande Ronde. The traffic there completely blocks the highway and keeps people from getting to the coast from Portland. I know a person who sold his property at the coast after the Grande Ronde casino went in because he wasn't willing to sit for 45 minutes to get thru Grande Ronde.

The same thing could happen to Hood River! So you put in a casino to boost the Cascade Locks economy and get a significant hit on the economy in Hood River and Stevenson. I go to Hood River 4 or 5 times a year just to walk around, hike, have dinner, enjoy the views of the river. I just really like that town. I won't be doing that if I encounter traffic jams on I-84.

In addition, I question whether Cascade Locks will be able to provide the number of workers needed to fill the positions required at this mega-casino. That means more commuters to work in Cascade Locks - from where? Portland, Gresham? Yes. What a colossal waste - building a casino so people will drive to a scenic area to GAMBLE - people who will be holed up in sunless rooms and could care less about the place around them. If they want an off-reservation casino, and it has to happen, put it in Portland. Put it on Government Island between Oregon and Washington. Just don't put it in the gorge.

posted 5 years, 2 months ago
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