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Proof that Apple doesn’t care about lowering song download prices. It only cares about people buying through iTunes. The major labels should not back down on this one. Keep offering the daily deals through Amazon.com — it exposes more music, to more people, for less money.
Oregon adults can register online beginning 9 a.m. Monday by going to the Internet site: www.oregonvotes.org. They will be required to have a valid Oregon driver’s license, permit or identification card.
It appears to be affordability, not recklessness (or even rational cost-benefit analysis of health risk), that is driving young people away from insurance policies.
Can we finally cancel the SeaWorld “Shamu” shows? I’m all for zoos and preserves that help endangered animals reproduce (or recoup from injury), but keeping a whale in a small tank — instead of the ocean — is cruel.
Fanger fills a position held last season by interim coaches Adam Grimes and John Colasurdo. They took over for Chad Carlson, who was fired after he and two assistant coaches had an altercation with police Aug. 29 at a Rose Quarter MAX platform.
The list of signatories includes both usual and somewhat unusual suspects, from the progressive wing of the party — Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — to less ideological lawmakers who find themselves in primary election contests — Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Col.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).

An interactive map with videos of the new Portland-Milwaukie MAX line opening in 2015 (including the first new bridge across the Willamette River in 40 years).