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on Northwest Passages: Diane Hammond
I spent my teenage years in Newport. When Keiko came to town, it was big news. Most young locals I hung with got a little sick of hearing about it, although secretly I think we liked the attention he brought.
I worked at the local McDonald's at the time, and more than once people came through the drive thru (sometimes without ordering food) to ask, "Where's the whale?" I remember the special release Keiko rootbeer made by (I believe) the Rogue Brewery, and to this day I still mention "Free Willy" right up there with "Goonies" "Animal House" and "Twilight" when talking about films made in Oregon.
posted 1 year, 9 months ago
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on Oregon on Screen
Speaking of long-running TV series shot in Oregon... what's going on with "Little People, Big World," the reality show about a family in Hillsboro area that's ran for 4 or 5 seasons on TLC? Do they take advantage of Oregon's incentive programs?
posted 1 year, 9 months ago
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on Oregon on Screen
While I fully support and endorse local production, I'm not convinced it should be any more than for an out of state company. Certainly should not come at the expense of outside productions. What's wrong with non-local folks coming to our state to spend money?
posted 1 year, 9 months ago
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on The Face of Race
In regard to data... the guest talks about the previous data being unreliable and inconsistent for whatever reason. So what did the NEW data collectors do to ensure reliablility and accuracy. Seems as like the guest (sorry, I missed the name, title) was advocating for causes and then conveniently went out an got data that supported those causes (the same thing she claims policy makers were doing). So why should the "Coalition of Communities of Color" study be trusted more than any other?
posted 2 years ago
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on Homeless Man Shot to Death by Portland Police
I empathize with some of this anger... however, I hope those who are outraged about this are NOT the same people who are outraged by the use of tazers. It seems whenever police use tazers there is similar outcry. We can't completely tie the hands of law enforcement. We need to allow some use of force and accept that not all situations will turn out great, regardless of what methods are used or not used.
I'm not necessarily saying this shooting was correct or justified... but I am saying, "please remember this when police use non-letal force instead of firearms."
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Oregon's Death Row
Ask Jeff about the clothing. I recall the deathrow inmates wearing sweat shorts, T-shirts and sandals. I believe this was different than non-deathrow inmates.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Oregon's Death Row
I had the unique opportunity to see the part of Oregon State Prison that houses death row inmates while working on a documentary about the prison. I was surprised to see Christian Longo, among other deathrow inmates, seemingly comfortable and not confined to a small cell like "regular" inmates. The death row inmates had a heavily secured, open area they are allowed to be in. When I asked our guide, about this (he as a fairly high ranking prison official), he made a point I had not thought of, which I will paraphrase... these (deathrow) inmates are not here (in the prison) as punishment. Their punishment is death. So in some ways, the housing terms are a in some ways better.
By no means was it "cushy," but it wasn't what I had pictured in my mind.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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