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Harvey was raised in Portland, Ore., in a house built by a carpenter father who moved West during the Depression, running from the same swirling dust storms that are bearing down on Harvey's city as he speaks. He wears the same style of Stetson his dad wore, and his eyes tear up when he talks about him. "He was the most honest man I ever knew. So upright he never managed to make money," he says...
...Amount per teacher that Portland, Ore., started allocating this year for out-of-pocket expenses...
Between stops on the hustings - on Wednesday morning he was in Portland, Oregon, at a town hall meeting with Al Gore - vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has been putting together his campaign staff for the Labor Day-to-Election Day sprint. And sources tell TIME that Lieberman has named Michael Lewan, who was his administrative assistant from 1989-93, to be his campaign chief-of-staff. Lewan, 49, will take an unpaid leave-of-absence from his Washington lobbying shop, where he has represented several life insurance industry clients, Oracle Corp., BellSouth and others. Lewan will travel with Lieberman, while...
Dotcom-related price spurts in real estate aren't confined to the tech-heavy Bay Area. The cities with the highest rates of growth when it comes to technology companies--places like Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Fort Worth and Austin, Texas--also happen to be the cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...
...world's prostitutes found themselves too busy to come to Butte to help out, which broke Almodovar's heart as well as her bank account. This summer, in fact, only one sex worker showed up, a 23-year-old who has stripped at the Palace of Pleasure in Portland, Ore. She admits to feeling awed by the Dumas. "The mind reels--you imagine the women hanging on the banisters and the player piano going." So is she glorifying prostitution? "No way. I know for sure this was a rugged business. Douching with Lysol, years of raging alcohol abuse...