Two U.S. allies pulling out of Iraq
Friday, December 2, 2005
AP's WILLIAM J. KOLE - - Oregonian
| VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Two of America's allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home U.S. troops.
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Mannix calls for overhaul in GOP bid
Thursday, November 3, 2005 HARRY ESTEVE - - Oregonian
| Kevin Mannix, sounding less combative and more conciliatory than he has in the past, formally kicked off his run for governor Tuesday, saying he wants a return of the "Oregon spirit" that gave the state its progressive reputation.
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Alito's reputation fits conservative mold
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 JIM BARNETT - - Oregonian (Newhouse News Service)
| If Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito gets a chance to rule on Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide, he would try to respect wishes of state voters, supporters said Monday.
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Not all charter schools are passing the test
Sunday, October 30, 2005 STEVEN CARTER - - Oregonian
| Oregon's charter elementary and middle schools are largely outperforming regular schools while most charter high schools are struggling, an analysis of achievement by The Oregonian shows.
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Death penalty case reaches U.S. courts
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 ASHBEL S. GREEN - - Oregonian
| For the first time, the federal courts will fully evaluate Oregon's death penalty law, one of a handful of 38 state capital punishment statutes that has yet to receive such a scrubbing.
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McCain targets tribal casinos
Tuesday, October 25, 2005 JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, told tribal leaders Monday in Portland that he intends to proceed with legislation putting new restrictions on tribal casinos.
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Oregon's approach disappoints feds
Monday, October 24, 2005 ANNA GRIFFIN - - Oregonian
| Federal regulators that dole out homeland security money are more frustrated with Oregon leaders for how they handle cash than they are with the Portland area for being slow to spend its share.
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Portland's security needs on slow track
Monday, October 24, 2005 ANNA GRIFFIN - - Oregonian
| Almost three years ago, Congress agreed to give hundreds of millions of dollars to local governments for training and equipment -- ranging from baby aspirin to anthrax detection kits to airplanes -- that they'll need in case of a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Since then, Portland-area leaders have faced a different kind of crisis: spending the money.
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Santorum, Casey race in national spotlight
Sunday, August 14, 2005
AP's KIMBERLY HEFLING - - Oregonian
| Sen. Rick Santorum is a rising Republican star Democrats desperately want to take down in 2006. So far, they say he is making their job easy.
State treasurer Robert Casey Jr., his likely Democratic opponent, is ahead in state polls. He's quietly raising millions for what is expected to be the closest Senate race in 2006.
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Campaign 2008 begins, led by Clinton
Monday, July 25, 2005
AP's MIKE GLOVER - - Oregonian
| Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the nation has "gone off track" in Republican hands since the prosperous years of her husband's presidency, making her case along with other potential 2008 Democratic candidates to a group that helped Bill Clinton win the White House.
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One for the books: Sen. Wyden to wed Strand co-owner
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 JEFF KOSSEFF - - Oregonian
| You couldn't miss the aw-shucks grin as Ron Wyden strolled through the Capitol basement Tuesday.
But Oregon's senior senator, and perennial policy wonk, wasn't touting a new Social Security formula, trade deal or the latest appropriations bill.
He was gushing about Nancy.
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Cheney gets taste of life in Portland during visit
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 HARRY ESTEVE - - Oregonian
| Vice President Dick Cheney didn't stay long in Portland, but long enough to sample some of the city's best-known staples -- dinner at an upscale restaurant, a taste of award-winning pinot noir and the screaming taunts of protestors as he sped away Monday morning.
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Plan calls for vast sea ranches
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 MICHAEL MILSTEIN - - Oregonian
| The Bush administration on Tuesday proposed opening the ocean to the establishment of giant sea ranches, where top-dollar species of fish would be raised like livestock.
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Judge upholds Democrat's win in Washington
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's REBECCA COOK - - Oregonian
| A judge Monday upheld Democrat Christine Gregoire's victory in last fall's governor's election, and defeated GOP candidate Dino Rossi said he would not appeal — ending the legal fight over the closest gubernatorial race in U.S. history.
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Mexico's math problem adds up to a U.S. meth problem
Sunday, June 5, 2005 STEVE SUO - - Oregonian
| Mexican law enforcement officials have worked with U.S. drug agents since 2003 to end the smuggling of pseudoephedrine pills from Hong Kong, believing it to be the largest source of the cold medicine used by methamphetamine traffickers.
However, an analysis by The Oregonian shows that Hong Kong is only a secondary supply of pseudoephedrine for the Mexican drug cartels fueling the U.S. meth trade. The dominant source: cold medicine manufactured by Mexico's legitimate pharmaceutical industry.
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Witness: Republican won disputed election
Friday, May 27, 2005
AP's REBECCA COOK - - Oregonian
| An expert witness for Republicans challenging the 2004 election of Gov. Christine Gregoire testified Thursday that when illegal votes are subtracted, the GOP candidate was the rightful winner.
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Judge rips federal salmon plan
Friday, May 27, 2005 JOE ROJAS-BURKE - - Oregonian
| A federal judge on Thursday rejected as inadequate the Bush administration's $600 million-a-year effort to prevent the extinction of salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers.
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GOP alleges fraud in Washington gov. vote
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
AP's REBECCA COOK - - Oregonian
| A trial to determine whether the results of Washington state's gubernatorial election last fall should be thrown out opened Monday with Republicans charging Democrats "stole" the contest for Christine Gregoire, who won by 129 votes out of 2.9 million cast.
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Smith amends report on Ireland trip
Saturday, May 21, 2005 JIM BARNETT - - Oregonian
| Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., on Friday amended a report on a 2003 trip to Ireland, clarifying that the parent company of a lobby firm, rather than the firm itself, paid for his travel, lodging and meals.
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Mfume addresses allegations of favoritism
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
AP's FOSTER KLUG - - Oregonian
| Casting himself as a determined underdog in the race for U.S. Senate, Kweisi Mfume said Monday that he wanted to erase doubts caused by allegations that he favored a subordinate he was dating while NAACP president.
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Tribes press states to ask for power to kill sea lions
Saturday, April 30, 2005 JOE ROJAS-BURKE - - Oregonian
| Frustrated by a diminished spring chinook salmon run and losses of fish to a surging population of hungry sea lions, Native American tribes with hard-fought fishing rights in the Columbia Basin have urged Oregon and Washington to seek federal permission to kill the most damaging of the predators.
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Smith urges give, take on nominees
Friday, April 22, 2005 JIM BARNETT - - Oregonian
| Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., on Thursday reaffirmed his support for Senate Republican leaders in a potential confrontation over judicial nominees but he also urged them to broker a compromise with Democrats.
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Leaders push for civil unions
Thursday, April 14, 2005 MICHELLE COLE - - Oregonian
| Gov. Ted Kulongoski and a bipartisan coalition of state senators introduced legislation Wednesday allowing civil unions for same-sex couples and outlawing discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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Bills draw new avenues for driver's license
Monday, April 11, 2005 MICHELLE COLE - - Oregonian
| The Oregon Legislature wants to take a plastic card designed to prove you can drive and turn it into a tool that keeps track of legal citizens and ensures they follow society's rules.
If some lawmakers get their way, the simple driver's license would:
Require applicants to prove they're a U.S. citizen or legal resident.
Automatically register young men for the draft when they apply for a license or state ID card.
Be used to punish people who provide alcohol to minors.
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Democrats criticize Republican's support of pharmaceutical bill
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
AP's NIKI SULLIVAN - - Oregonian
| Democrats are criticizing a Republican-backed bill that would limit consumers' ability to sue pharmaceutical companies if drugs cause health problems.
The bill would prevent Oregonians from suing drug companies for damages over alleged harmful side effects of a drug that was manufactured and labeled as required by the federal Food and Drug Administration or was "generally recognized as safe and effective" under FDA-established conditions.
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'08 White House race draws Iowa's interest
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
AP's MIKE GLOVER - - Oregonian
| Potential White House candidates are calling Iowa's top political operatives. Trips to the Midwest are on the schedule. Personal notes to the state's top Democrats and Republicans are in the mail.
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Senate OKs birth control coverage
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 EDWARD WALSH - - Oregonian
| SALEM -- Insurance companies that sell policies covering prescription drugs would have to include prescribed contraceptives if a Senate bill passed Wednesday becomes law.
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House OKs farmland building
Thursday, March 17, 2005 LAURA OPPENHEIMER - - Oregonian
| Hundreds of Oregonians could build houses on agricultural land without becoming farmers under legislation approved Wednesday by the state House of Representatives.
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Democrats mull primary schedule changes
Sunday, March 13, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Oregonian
| Iowa and New Hampshire, combined, have 4.2 million people — just 1.5 percent of the U.S. population. Yet Democratic presidential candidates spend months and millions of dollars each presidential cycle in those two states before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, the first events in the party's nomination process.
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Hutchinson to run for Arkansas governor
Sunday, March 13, 2005
AP's PEGGY HARRIS - - Oregonian
| Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican congressman who just left his post as Homeland Security undersecretary, announced Saturday that he will run for Arkansas governor in 2006.
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Dean: Democrats raise $3.4M in three weeks
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Oregonian
| The Democratic National Committee raised $3.4 million in three weeks — more than double the amount raised during the same time in 2001 after President Bush was first elected, the new Democratic chairman said Monday.
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Small-dollar donors had mixed impact
Friday, March 4, 2005
AP's SHARON THEIMER - - Oregonian
| The Democratic and Republican national committees raised more money than ever from people giving $200 or less in the last election, but low-dollar donations still accounted for less than half the money the parties collected from individuals.
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New DNC head Dean looks to rebuild party
Sunday, February 13, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Oregonian
| New national Democratic Chairman Howard Dean promised Saturday to rebuild the party in the most conservative regions of the country, help develop state and local organizations and let congressional Democrats set the tone on policy.
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Bush wants market rates for BPA
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 JEFF KOSSEFF and JIM BARNETT - - Oregonian
| President Bush's proposal Monday that the Bonneville Power Administration charge market rates for its electricity ran into immediate fire from Republicans and Democrats in the Northwest delegation.
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Dean opponent bows out of chairman's race
Monday, February 7, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Oregonian
| Tim Roemer, the only remaining opponent of Howard Dean in the race to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday he's bowing out of the race — but he offered a warning to Democrats.
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RNC seeks donations to push Bush agenda
Thursday, January 27, 2005
AP's SHARON THEIMER - - Oregonian
| The Republican Party is following up record fund raising for President Bush's re-election effort by asking donors to finance its efforts to get Bush's message "past the liberal media filter" to the public.
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Activists rally against Bush in Portland
Thursday, January 20, 2005 NIKI SULLIVAN - - Oregonian
| Several hundred activists rallied in Portland on Thursday — the day of President Bush's inauguration — to protest the Iraq war and the administration's economic and social policies.
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Remedy that defies meth will join market
Thursday, December 23, 2004 STEVE SUO - - Oregonian
| As more and more states restrict the sale of cold medicines used to make methamphetamine, the maker of Sudafed next month plans to introduce a new version that cannot be converted to the potent street drug.
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Snowy plover protection plan OKd
Thursday, December 16, 2004
AP's CHARLES E. BEGGS - - Oregonian
| A state panel endorsed a plan Thursday for protecting the threatened western snowy plover that could lead to new restrictions on such activities as driving, kite flying and playing with dogs on about 20 percent of the coast's sandy beaches.
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Wash. court rejects Dems recount lawsuit
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
AP's REBECCA COOK - - Oregonian
| The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of Washington state's contested governor's race.
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Wyden's other race wins him key Senate role
Monday, December 13, 2004 JEFF KOSSEFF - - Oregonian
| Sen. Ron Wyden's toughest and longest campaign came to a successful close.
It wasn't his waltz to re-election last month against a poorly funded opponent. It was his eight-year behind-the-scenes effort to persuade Democratic colleagues to name him to a key Senate committee.
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View on Iraqi needs changes after tour with Guard
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 HARRY ESTEVE - - Oregonian
| An Oregon lawmaker who just spent a week with Oregon National Guard troops in Baghdad says he no longer believes Iraqis hunger for democracy.
They want safety and stability, and they're not picky about how they get it, said Rep. Jeff Kropf, R-Sublimity, who has been an outspoken supporter of the war and of President Bush's anti-terror policies since Sept. 11, 2001.
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Governor, senators call for better schools, roads and technology
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
AP's WILLIAM McCALL - - Oregonian
| PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined his Republican colleague, Sen. Gordon Smith, to open their third statewide economic summit on Monday with reassurances about funding for schools, roads and new technology.
But they warned of the challenges of global competition.
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Oregon ACLU chapter joins national effort on alleged FBI spying
Thursday, December 2, 2004
AP's WILLIAM McCALL - - Oregonian
| The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon on Thursday joined other ACLU chapters around the nation to file Freedom of Information Act requests with the FBI to determine whether the agency is spying on political and religious groups.
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Judge tosses challenge to Nev. Bush win
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
AP's SCOTT SONNER - - Oregonian
| A judge Tuesday tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush. In election challenges in two other states, a recount was sought and another was ended.
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Election maps cultural divisions
Sunday, November 28, 2004 JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| While Democrat John Kerry was winning almost all of the urban and close-in suburban neighborhoods of the Portland area, voters were much more divided on contentious ballot measures such as the ban on gay marriage.
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Feds to investigate voting irregularies
Saturday, November 27, 2004
AP's LARRY MARGASAK - - Oregonian
| Congress' investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
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Democrats discuss how to reset agenda
Saturday, November 20, 2004
AP's DAVID HAMMER - - Oregonian
| In the shadow of Bill Clinton and his gleaming new presidential library, leaders of the struggling Democratic Party held informal discussions this week of how to come back from their devastating Election Day losses.
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Lawmaker calls for national meth fight
Saturday, November 20, 2004 STEVE SUO - - Oregonian
| With methamphetamine addiction sweeping eastward, political momentum is building in Congress for a broad national strategy to destroy the illicit trade and control its essential chemical ingredients, a key congressional Republican said Thursday.
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FBI blamed in print error
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 NOELLE CROMBIE - - Oregonian
| Fingerprint analysts who mistakenly linked a print from the Madrid bombing to a local lawyer were influenced by one another's work and the pressure of being assigned to a high-profile terrorism case, an international team of forensic scientists concluded.
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Walden to rise in new Congress
Friday, November 12, 2004
AP's MATTHEW DALY - - Oregonian
| Even with no changes in its lineup, Oregon's Democrat-dominated House delegation is likely to lose clout in the new Congress, which gained Republican seats.
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War's equivalent of 9-1-1 turns boredom into a rush
Saturday, November 13, 2004 HELEN JUNG - - Oregonian
| Soldiers from the Oregon Army National Guard's Delta Company had just returned from lunch. Several were in their rooms, cleaning up and writing letters while others watched the film comedy "Sorority Boys" in the lounge.
Then a code word, in a calm and steady voice, came over their radios.
The leisurely pace of the day vanished instantly as the 17 soldiers of the 3rd Platoon raced into action. They flew out of their rooms, the lounge, even the latrine to their Humvees parked outside the living quarters they fondly call Hell.
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Job gains accelerate to 337,000 in October
Saturday, November 6, 2004 Nell Henderson - - Oregonian
| U.S. job growth surged in October as builders, temporary agencies and other employers boosted their payrolls, in part to repair widespread hurricane damage in the Southeast, the government reported Friday.
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On the razor's edge
Sunday, October 31, 2004 JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Amid competing feelings of anxiety, anger and hope, U.S. voters again seem poised to produce a presidential race for the history books, not just for its sheer drama but also for the sense that the nation will be vastly different depending on who wins Tuesday.
That may seem like an overstatement, but the campaign has been waged under overwhelming tension as voters try to make sense of economic upheaval at home and the continuing carnage swirling about the 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. And more than ever before, the electorate is engulfed in endless strands of information, punditry, facts, rumor and invective pouring from the Internet, talk radio and 24-hour cable news.
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Faith politics could tip vote
Saturday, October 30, 2004 BILL GRAVES and JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Tim Nashif, a key Republican strategist in Oregon who also is running the initiative campaign to ban same-sex marriages here, says he figures there is just one way President Bush can confound the pollsters and win the state.
"I don't think it's going to happen unless there is a dynamic out there that we haven't seen before," he said, "and that would be people of faith voting at a much greater clip than they have in the past."
That precisely defines one of the big unknowns hanging over this election year throughout the nation: Will conservative Christians turn out in large enough numbers to give President Bush another term?
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Poll gives Kerry a 6-point lead in Oregon
Friday, October 29, 2004 JANIE HAR and JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Democrat Sen. John Kerry has moved into a six-point lead in Oregon and is in a strong position to win the state's seven electoral votes Tuesday, according to a new survey conducted for The Oregonian and KATU (2).
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Ad dollars flow even in 'safe' races
Thursday, October 28, 2004 JEFF KOSSEFF - - Oregonian
| With little more than a month before the election, U.S. Rep Greg Walden spent about $350,000 on a radio and television advertising blitz.
For some members of Congress in tight re-election battles, such spending is their ticket to two more years of employment. But like the vast majority of U.S. House incumbents, Walden does not face a heated race.
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Courting Latino voters, a norm, not novelty
Thursday, October 28, 2004 ANGIE CHUANG - - Oregonian
| Jaime Arrendondo of Salem has noticed some big changes in the five years he's been registering Oregon Latinos to vote.
In a nutshell: more Latinos, more eligible voters, more interest in this election, and more people registering Republican, defying the ethnic group's historical Democratic leanings.
With the Bush and Kerry campaigns clamoring to reach the state's fastest-growing ethnic group, Arrendondo acknowledges he has had to work harder to find eligible voters who aren't registered. But it's a good problem, he says.
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Feds create puzzle not found on toy shelf
Friday, October 29, 2004 ASHBEL S. GREEN - - Oregonian
| Nothing about running a small store called Pufferbelly Toys prepared Stephanie Cox for a cryptic phone call from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The next day, two men arrived at the store and showed Cox their badges. The lead agent asked Cox whether she carried a toy called the Magic Cube. She said yes. The Magic Cube, he said, was an illegal copy of the Rubik's Cube, one of the most popular toys of all time. He told her to remove the Magic Cube from her shelves, and he watched to make sure she complied.
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Watchers watch the watchers as ballot counters try to count
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ - - Oregonian
| BEAVERTON -- Sharon Cornish stands for the third hour, her head thrust as far forward as it will go, engrossed with the hundreds of ballot signatures being checked against computer images just 3 feet away.
As a voluntary observer at Washington County's Elections Division office, Cornish is allowed to watch, but not object, touch or, for the most part, speak. She and a group of fellow Republicans, mostly retirees, organized through a series of shifts, have taken the tradition of poll watching to another level.
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As Kerry stakes out lead in state, both campaigns scale back efforts
Saturday, October 23, 2004 JEFF MAPES - - Oregonian
| Oregon is still a swing state in the presidential race, but it no longer appears to be a toss-up.
Most polls show that Democrat Sen. John Kerry has carved a clear lead in Oregon, and both campaigns reportedly have reduced television advertising in the state. And there is a good possibility that neither Kerry nor President Bush will be back in the state before the Nov. 2 election.
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Officials gather flu shot data
Thursday, October 21, 2004 PATRICK O'NEILL - - Oregonian
| Oregon health officials called for calm Wednesday, saying they think enough flu vaccine eventually will be available to inoculate as many of the frail and elderly as usually get shots in a normal year.
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Differing polls show volatile Oregon presidential race
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
AP's BRAD CAIN - - Oregonian
| SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With two weeks remaining before Election Day, the presidential race in Oregon remains as volatile as ever.
Underscoring that are two polls conducted in the state last week, one of which showed President Bush narrowly leading Democrat John Kerry, and another that gave a similar edge to Kerry.
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Bush fires up party faithful in Southern Oregon
Friday, October 15, 2004 EDWARD WALSH - - Oregonian
| President Bush flew Thursday into Southern Oregon in search of vital votes in a key Western state, telling cheering supporters he needs their help in an election that remains deadlocked less than three weeks before Election Day.
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In close race, debates will be key to outcome
Thursday, October 14, 2004 TODD S. PURDUM - - Oregonian
| President Bush and Sen. John Kerry ended the last of their three debates as they began them: with starkly defined differences in substance, semantics and style on almost every major question facing the American public. Thus, they head into the campaign's homestretch amid every indication that their debates mattered -- perhaps more than any such encounters in a quarter century.
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Congress called on in Oregon meth fight
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 STEVE SUO - - Oregonian
| Two of Oregon's top elected officials Tuesday pledged to build support for national strategies against methamphetamine and its key ingredients -- including federal funding to develop cold medicines that cannot be used to make the addictive stimulant.
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Nader returns to Oregon to urge voters to write him in on ballot
Monday, October 11, 2004
AP's BRAD CAIN - - Oregonian
| EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An angry Ralph Nader on Sunday night called for the resignation of Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, saying the Democrat had engaged in "partisan machinations" to keep Nader off Oregon's Nov. 2 presidential ballot.
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Heinz Kerry courts voters in Eugene, contrasts the character of candidates
Friday, October 8, 2004 EDWARD WALSH - - Oregonian
| The presidential campaign as a family affair continued to unfold Thursday in Eugene as Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, rallied loyalists at a downtown theater hours after one of her sons visited this liberal bastion on his own campaign swing for his stepfather.
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