| Lobbyist commissioned controversial poll in mayor’s race
Portland lobbyist Len Bergstein tells the Portland Tribune that he commissioned the public opinion poll that has emerged as a controversial issue in the Portland mayor's race. "I commission polls from time to time for my own purposes, and I wanted to know what people were thinking about the mayor's race," Bergstein told the Portland Tribune Sunday afternoon. Among other things, the poll compared how City Commissioner Sam Adams and Portland businessman Sho Dozono would do in the mayor's race. Although Bergstein is now advising Dozono in his race against Adams, Bergstein said he commissioned the poll before Dozono decided to enter the race.Bergstein also said he did not tell Dozono about the poll in advance, but shared the results with him after they came in. On Friday Dozono reported the poll as a $27,295 in-kind contribution to his campaign.
Home Invasion Leads To Car Salesman's Arrest
GOLD CANYON, Ariz. -- An east Valley car salesman was arrested Wednesday in connection with a home invasion and robbery in Gold Canyon, Pinal County sheriff's detectives said. Jamin Joel Martinez, 27, of Gold Canyon, was booked into the Pinal County Jail for felony counts of robbery and possession/trafficking stolen property. A man armed with a black handgun entered a Gold Canyon residence around 9 p.m. on Jan. 21 and robbed the homeowners of jewelry and cash. The invader fled with goods valued at about $15,000, detectives said. No one was injured. .
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Tim Sauter Looking to Finish Strong Homestead is Last Race for Lester Buildings in NASCAR Tim Sauter and the Green Light Racing team have one race left in 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Season. It has been rollercoaster year for the team with plenty of highs and lows, through it all Sauter stands 16th in the driver standings heading into Friday's Ford 200 at Homestead Miami Speedway. "I've got mixed emotions about this weekend," Sauter explained. "The energy level at Homestead is always high, you know all kinds of stuff going on both on and off the track which is exciting. On the other hand the uncertainty of where things are headed for next year makes the last race tough. I'm thankful to everyone that we got to run the whole season for Lester Buildings and Green Light Racing." As the last race approaches, team co-owner Bobby Dotter reflected on the 2007 NCTS season.
Mariners voice Dave Niehaus finally receives cherished call to ...
There's finally a spot in Cooperstown for a Mariners legend. And what can you say about that but "My, Oh, My!" Dave Niehaus, the voice and in many ways the face of the franchise, received the call Tuesday morning that many Northwest baseball fans felt was long overdue. He was named the 2008 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. That means he'll be inducted into the broadcasting wing of baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 27 as part of Hall of Fame Weekend. The Mariners' lead announcer in each of their 31 seasons, Niehaus has broadcast all but a handful of the team's games since 1977. His trademark call of "My, Oh, My!" is about as much a Seattle landmark as the Space Needle. "What a birthday present," said Niehaus, who turned 73 Tuesday.
Traffic.com and Skyward Mobile Launch Traffic.com2GO
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CES, Las Vegas Convention Center -- South Hall, Booth #36008 -- Traffic.com, a NAVTEQ company (NYSE: NVT) , and a leading provider of traffic solutions to consumers and businesses, and Skyward Mobile, a leading developer of next-generation mobile applications, today announced the release of Traffic.com2GO(TM), a new mobile application that delivers real-time traffic updates, including congestion, travel times, construction and other incidents on U.S. city area roadways. In addition to a rich graphical interface, the application includes JamCast(R) audio traffic news reports. Traffic.com2GO is available to users from links on the Traffic.com site and is accessible directly at http://www.traffic.com/2GO. Traffic.com2GO, powered by Skyward Mobile, is designed to provide robust, dynamic traffic content ideal for on-the-go commuters.
Illinois gunman's deadly rampage baffles many who knew him; police had ...
If there is such a thing as a profile of a mass murderer, Steven Kazmierczak didn't fit it: outstanding student, engaging, polite and industrious, with what looked like a bright future in the criminal justice field. And yet on Thursday, the 27-year-old Kazmierczak, who had ties to Florida, armed himself with three handguns and a brand-new pump-action shotgun he had carried onto campus in a guitar case. He stepped from behind a screen on the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a geology class, killing five students before committing suicide. University Police Chief Donald Grady said, without giving details, that Kazmierczak had become erratic in the past two weeks after he had stopped taking his medication. But that seemed to come as news to many of those who knew him, and the attack itself was positively baffling.
Parking mad policies only harm the Capital
Councillors elected to provide facilities and officials employed to organise and manage them consistently fail to meet Edinburgh's parking needs. The council's recent study on parking availability suggests that councillors don't distinguish between high demand in George Street and low demand in Regent Road and Johnston Terrace. Yet they included these off-centre streets to improve apparent parking availability.Four kinds of driver try to park in the centre of Edinburgh – tourists, commuters, shoppers and those who are stopping briefly. Only the latter needs on-street parking for a quick visit – the others would be better served by off-street car parking with payment on departure, removing the risk of a fine. The council recognises this, otherwise why periodically dust off and promote old plans for underground car parks? An automated car park is now planned under Chambers Street – but why only 100 spaces and why there when it could be built under the city streets – for which the council's own study shows high demand? Or, as happens in Europe, why not build downward under squares and public gardens to provide central and unobtrusive high volume parking which would neither encroach on to building space nor reduce amenity?In 2005-6, George Street produced £1.3 million in parking fine income, the UK's highest outside London, but while the council upped its charges, the result of that was to dramatically reduce occupancy.
Neil Stein is a man with a plan - and a debt
Every entrepreneur has ups and downs. Few highs and lows in Philadelphia have been as public as Neil Stein's: On one hand, there are the openings of his restaurants, which helped define Philadelphia. On the other is his 10-month stay in federal prison for tax evasion, capping his empire's collapse. "At this moment," Stein said in a recent interview, "I'm very alive and very up." Stein, a year out of prison, is planning a comeback with a place called Cabaret in the restaurant space at the Morris House, a boutique hotel near Washington Square. As Stein was at Fish Market (1973), Marabella's (1984), Rock Lobster (1992), Striped Bass (1994) and Rouge (1998), he's the idea man. Not the money man. "I still owe a few dollars," he says, although Philadelphia court records show more than $1 million in active judgments against him and his former corporations - largely from unpaid city taxes.
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