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Portland’s cost of living is high for the same reason it is high in Boulder. The city has some of the strictest planning and development controls in the country, complete with a state-mandated “urban growth boundary.”
While the cost of living is high, the median household income is low, coming in at $40,146. In Colorado Springs — where incomes go much farther — the median household income is $45,081. Do we want ideas that will raise our cost of living, lower our incomes and raise our crime rate?
Portland does have the Springs beat in one regard. It has the distinction of more strip clubs per capita than Las Vegas, based on reports from a local newspaper and ABC News. A 2010 report by Dan Rather titled “Pornland, Oregon,” — published in the Huffington Post — cited federal sources to explain how Portland had become the nation’s hub of sexual exploitation of children. That means something is horribly wrong with local government there.

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Hales also wants to roll back system-development charges, saying the city has become “greedy” by turning to the fees for revenue. “The impact is especially harsh for small business,” he says. He would also give businesses that meet high environmental and community standards — B Corporations such as Eleek and Patagonia — discounted city business licenses.
Beyond that, Hales says, “My favorite business is smart, local and growing, no matter what it makes.”
“Beyond strip malls and strip clubs“
If yin and yang were an economic philosophy, 38-year-old Smith could be its champion. A state legislator who grew up in Portland’s Irvington neighborhood, Smith now lives in east Portland.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, he talks on the campaign trail about building an economy east of 82nd Avenue that’s “beyond strip malls and strip clubs.” But in the next breath he says politicians tend to overstate their own importance in shaping the city’s financial future, influenced as it is by global forces.

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The seeming lack of interest in the case, she says, is because of her daughter’s profession — Melissa worked in Portland nightclubs as a stripper.
Melissa’s sister, Danielle Atchley, agreed that the job seems to have affected police response.
“They say that’s not why, but I feel that has something to do with it,” Danielle said.
Atchley was last seen April 18, 2011, walking out of an apartment where she had been staying with a friend in Portland. She carried a small bag, but left a number of her personal effects behind, including her new laptop computer.
“She didn’t go anywhere without her laptop,” Danielle said, adding that her sister used it often in coffee shops where she could pick up free Wi-Fi to search for employment opportunities and update her MySpace and Facebook pages.
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Melissa’s decision to become a stripper concerned Terry and Danielle because of what they had heard about human-trafficking operations run out of Portland.

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ABCNews.com contacted Cuykendall for comment, but she did not return the call.
The family lived with their youngest daughter, who is a high school student in Portland. They also have two older daughters.
The pair were described by the Portland Business Journal as a “power couple.”
Cuykendall was a former associate publisher of Portland’s rival Tribune newspaper and now works in the communications department of Oregon Health and Science University.
Caldwell started as a copy editor at the Oregonian in 1983 and rose through the ranks to lead the editorial board in 1995.
In 2010, he was arrested on a DUI charge for driving his pick-up into the back of another vehicle outside a Portland strip club, according to the Portland Mercury. His license was revoked and he was sentenced to a counseling program.

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Posted Today, 10:38 AM
First off I used to live with a stripper. She was drunk one night and tried to hit me with a ball bat, I took it from her and she pulled a set of curlers our of the closet and busted them over my head! http://www.ebay.com/…2#ht_764wt_1042
It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6

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My sister and I were doing 12-hour shifts when she was in the hospital dying, and she died on my watch, and I was holding her, and she sang her way through to wherever she went next. She was singing as she died, and her eyes were closed, and she hadnt spoken in two days, but she was singing shell be coming round the mountain when she comes.
My first-grade report card from my teacher to my mother said Sally is an excellent student, but please tell her that it is not her obligation to entertain the class, especially when Im out of the room. I stood on my desk and sang and told jokes and tap-danced.
They say if you want to know your stripper name, you do your first family pets name that you remember as a child, and then the name of the street that you lived on. Mines Cobina Portland Whats yours? (Others in the room were Jake Van Dyke, Oliver Jenkins and Shep Rural Route 1.) Thats funny!

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Based on the information the county has gathered so far, however, Wert said it seems unlikely the club’s allowed to operate on the property. He said the property is in a residential zone, where businesses cannot operate.
The website stated The Kinky Palace is an exclusive invitation-only club and no yearly membership fees will be charged to the guests. But to receive an invitation, applicants must go through a phone interview and then make donations through PayPal or credit card online, according to the website.
The club advertises a theater, a dance floor, stripper poles, bars and playrooms, with different swinger-style parties planned each night. Eventually, organizers claim they will turn the 7-acre property into a resort, with plans to install an infinity pool and spa and to build four more structures around the current house for different lifestyle events.

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At Husted’s Hazel Dell Lanes Feb. 18 Saturday Nite Sudsers — Men: Nathan Ellis 215-279-237 731. Women: Kim Heying 183-193-193 569. Feb. 24 Playmates — Men: Corey Stackhouse 254-300-247 801. Women: Dawn barnes 190-236-222 648. Senior Rollers — Men: Butch Lacy 212-182-191 585. Women: Connie Stevens 192-189-192 573. Feb. 25 Saturday Juniors — Boys: Alex Van Dinter 234-248-243 725. Girls: Madison Crockett 225-213-181 652. Saturday Preps — Girls: Mariah Shepersky 199-95-199 295. Bumper Buddies — Boys: Joseph Simmet 102-91-193. Girls: Nikiah Scott 75-86 161. Feb. 27 Cosmopolitan — Men: Corey Stackhouse 300-266-234 800. Moose Mixed — Men: Dave Jones 179-248-246 673. Women: Shirley Ridley 180-212-170 562. Feb. 28 Spotter’s — Women: Beth Cross 210-133-197 540. Feb. 29 99 Strippers — Women: Laurie Morton 213-128-190 531. Senior Tappers — Men: Clarence Wasser 258-290-258 806; Ernie Garcia 278-228-300 806. Women: Mona Ott 241-200-266 707. Renegades — Men: Matt Dowd 194-206-268 668. Women: Patti Convirs 190-194-212 596. March 1 Ross Complex — Men: Chris Payne 219-290-207 716. Women: Jackie Payne 197-192-220 609. Economy — Men: Jerry Clark 214-213-256 687. Women: Cherie Cassidy 165-182-203 550. Women’s Classic — Betty Wright 178-192-175 545. Thursday Trio — Women: Shirley Davis 159-187-178 524.

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In the past several days, I’m not the only one who has been drawn to the rubble. The store was a local landmark for 15 years, even if the parking lot was often empty, save for the rinky-dink coffee kiosk. For as long as I can remember, Portland neighborhood associations have wrestled with the arrival of porn shops, not their departure.
“This fell into our laps,” John Prouty, the Crestwood board president, said. “Walgreens wanted that spot and negotiated with the owner. We didn’t push for it.
“When Castle first came in, the neighborhood looked for avenues to oppose it. With the Oregon Constitution the way it is, we had very few legs to stand on.”
Porn outlets, like strip clubs, generally have carte blanche on zoning issues, according to the Oregon Supreme Court. That helps to explain why Fat Cobra Video on North Interstate has been curled up beside Ockley Green School for the past eight years.

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Where to play Portland: Guardian Games303 S.E. Third Ave.503-238-4000 Portal Games1224 S.W. Broadway503-575-4887 Red Castle Games6416 S.E. Foster Road503-774-4263 Bridgetowne Hobbies & Games3350 N.E. Sandy Blvd.503-234-1881 Cloud Cap Games1226 S.E. Lexington St.503-505-9344 Other World Games6350 S.W. Capitol Highway503-244-0290 Metro area: Rainy Day Games18105 S.W. Tualatin Valley Highway, Aloha503-642-4100 Knightfall Games9955 S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway #117,Beaverton503-626-9067 Ancient Wonders19060 S.W. Boones Ferry Road, Tualatin503-692-0753 Dice Age Games5107 E. Fourth Plain Blvd. #105, Vancouver360-772-8967 Other meetups:Fred Meyer, 3805 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., 2 p.m. Sundays and 5 p.m. Wednesdays New Seasons, 1954 S.E. Division St., 7 p.m. Tuesdays Lucky Labrador Brewing Co., 915 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., 7 p.m. Thursdays First Evangelical Church, 4120 N.E. St Johns Road, in Vancouver, first Friday of each month at 7 p.m. For more information: www.meetup.com/ pdxgames
“It feels like, per capita, Portland has the most game stores, strip clubs and breweries of any place I’ve ever been,” says May, who regularly travels for work. “Put all those three together and it’s an adult playground.”

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