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14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Woman accused of Ore. ... · 1 reply · +41 points

The only way you can get a refund is when you OVERPAID your taxes. If she didn't actually make $2.1 million in contributions OVER the proper amount of taxes on more than $3 million in income, why would they have refunded anything?

This just doesn't make sense at all.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Olshey gets right to w... · 0 replies · +3 points

It means he began working immediately.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Reynolds district, tea... · 0 replies · +21 points

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

You stated so well what so many of us are thinking. Excellent job!

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Man walks into police ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Somebody who just wanted three hots and a cot on someone else's dime?

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Sandy police ask for h... · 0 replies · +4 points

Police Artists always sign their name and put the case ID number and police department on the sketch.

Additionally, the sketch is now evidence. All evidence gets tagged with case number, police department, and identifies somehow the person who collected the information.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Police searching for e... · 0 replies · +4 points

KATU - Any chance you can post a larger photo so that we can actually see the man's face?

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Four Oregon mail sorti... · 2 replies · +16 points

Salem $5.8 Million / 77 people = $75,324 each
Bend $2.1 Million / 17 people = 123,529 each
Eugene $4.4 Million / 68 people = 64,705 each
Pendleton $555,837 / 2 people = 277,918 each

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Washington looking to ... · 0 replies · +17 points

This sounds pretty short-sighted to me. I would venture to say that most times the sales tax is not being paid by Oregonians is when an Oregonian purposefully goes across the river to make a purchase. If you start charging them 8.25% more for their purchase, that will stop. That means the state won't be able to charge them 8.25% sales tax AND the seller won't make their $1.00 in sales.

Remember - for every $18 million the state & city lose in sales taxes, the businesses of Washington make more than $218 million in sales. This is, quite predictably, going to hurt the state of Washington, and the city of Vancouver in particular.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Caught on camera: Poli... · 0 replies · +3 points

I am not making my own story up. As I stated in my post, "the fable" I just posted was gathered strictly from the facts of the link to the KATU story Portlandborn83 had included. I used the facts in his linked story - and only the facts in that post.

If the facts in that story were true, then I stand by my assesment. If KATU's story was wrong, your beef should be with them, not with me for using their information.

(Note - Portlandborn83 who dislikes the PPB actions in the previous case linked to that story without any comments about its inaccuracy).

Finally - I have not read the links you posted, but I did read the quotes you posted. None of them contradict the five points (a through e) that I posted - facts reported in the KATU article.

14 years ago @ KATU - Portland, OR - Caught on camera: Poli... · 2 replies · +5 points

This woman was armed with a knife and the police were able to maintain a safe distance. She did not try to breach that distance or make moves to threaten the police. Their use of non-lethal force was effective in subduing her.

Aaron Campbell, on the other hand, according to the facts of the story you linked to, was (a) suicidal, (b) had a gun in the apartment, (c) left the gun in the apartment when he came out, (d) made aggressive motions toward the officers in an attempt to get them to kill him, and (e) when he realized they were going to respond with non-lethal force began to run back to his place of concealment where he had left his firearm. Non-lethal force was deployed but was not effective in subduing him. Instead, Mr. Campbell attempted to get behind concealment and obtain a weapon. In my opinion, the police officers were justified in escalating their level of response to lethal force in order to prevent him from getting that gun, as there was an extremely high chance he was going to use it on them or someone else in an attempt to get the police to kill him.

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