For those of us that read the Trib, Phil Stanford is Jack Bogdanski with a newspaper column. In fact, I see Jack's comments popping up in the trib all over the place, including Stanford's columns.
The Trib has turned on a commenting function and I want to encourage those here to head over there and leave comments for the stories and columns that are really stupid, over the line, or lack reality, such as today's Stanford column that said:
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If you think the Chinese are the only ones bent out of shape over what the Portland Development Commission has done in Chinatown, talk to Kenyon Dawson, who works as doorman at Darcelle’s on Northwest Third.…
“The whole thing’s a mess,” he says. “Totally tacky. … After all this, it just looks like a bad mall.”… Couldn’t agree more, Kenyon. The entire project has to rank as one of the PDC’s more memorable failures. … First they drive a number of long-standing Chinese businesses out to 82nd, then they manage to obliterate the funky charm that made the place worth visiting in the first place. … In terms of sheer bullheadedness, it’s right up there with the destruction of the entire South Portland neighborhood back in the ’50s. … The misbegotten dragon statue that’s got the Chinese community so riled up was just the finishing touch.
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a funky charm?
anyway, I'm not sure comments critical of their stories will stay, but its worth letting them know their slanted negative reporting is unacceptable. To see Stanford's entire column today and my comments to him, if they are still there, go here.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/...53395061638900