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ESCO Steel — A legacy worth celebrating?
ESCO steel reported $849 million in global sales in 2010. This was enough to earn them lavish praise from local business journalist Richard Read, who suggests that companies like ESCO form an...
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Brand Portland — The Greenwashing Machine
I still live in Portland because of a vision that our unique culture could be animated into a real political force for an equitable and sustainable future. Despite my optimism, I couldn’t help but...
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Open Letter to ESCO Corporation
This letter was delivered to ESCO Corporation as a part of March 18’s Tour of Portland’s Worst Polluters Ride – Tar Sands Edition: TO: Calvin Collins, Corporate Officers, and ESCO Corporation...
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Rep. Blumenauer: Say No to Transcanada & the Portland Business Alliance
Representative Blumenauer, I stopped by your office yesterday to request, as a constituent, that you withdraw from the March 27th Portland Business Alliance members only luncheon, which is sponsored in...
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Melting the planet the right way: Earl Blumenauer on Keystone XL
Two days ago I demonstrated outside the Portland Business Alliance in downtown Portland. There are lots of good reasons to demonstrate against the PBA, but on this occasion my friends had learned that...
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“Austerity is Insane”
Last night, the City of Portland held budget hearings at Montgomery Park. Several hundred people attended; so many that testimony had to be limited to a minute. There was incredible energy in the room...
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