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Bread&Brew year in review PortlandTribune— See Life, B1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY Innovators scrap for city’s cash by and needs their help. proaches for the city. with the IRS. That would make Streetlights light Mayor hopes fund Or a way to save time fi ling Hales’ Innovation Fund idea it easier for Portlanders to fi le the road along idea saves city money, your city arts tax form, or city gets its first test run this local tax forms each April, and Northwest Fifth and county business taxes, month, when a task force eval- enable the Revenue Bureau to Avenue in Old Town. improves services while delivering a few million uates 24 proposals to spend catch people who failed to fi le One of the proposed dollars in new revenue each some of the $1 million cash set their taxes or filed incorrect Innovation Fund By STEVE LAW year to city and county coffers. aside by the mayor in his inau- data. projects is to The Tribune Those are some of the more gural city budget. “The bureau conservatively replace the lights intriguing ideas proposed for Some of the proposals could estimates a compliance in- with LEDs that have Imagine a smartphone app Mayor Charlie Hales’ new In- save the city money, like the crease of 1 to 3 percent for busi- dimming controls. that alerts Portlanders novation Fund, a $1 million ex- Portland Revenue Bureau’s ness income taxes and up to 5 TRIBUNE PHOTO: trained in CPR that someone periment aimed at fostering $295,000 plan to create a tax in- JONATHAN HOUSE just had a heart attack near- better, money-saving ap- formation exchange agreement See INNOVATION / Page 4 New PPS PREDICTIONS FOR 2014 adviser to tackle diversity Plan expected to guide recruiting for schools, administration By JENNIFER ANDERSON The Tribune Portland Public Schools Theoretical has hired a consultant to astrophysicist Ethan write its Affi rmative Action Siegal is predicting Plan, an initiative to hire the result of capping more teachers, administra- Portland’s Mt. Tabor tors and staff of color. reservoir will cause The consultant for the year- hallucinagens to leach long contract is Donny Adair, brother-in-law to Harriet Adair, into the water, making a PPS regional administrator local beer the most who started working for the dis- popular in the world. trict in 1970. TRIBUNE PHOTO: The hire JONATHAN HOUSE for the year- long, part- time $10,000 contract has raised red fl ags for at ■ Portlanders put on rose-colored glasses, head into wacky 2014 least a few parent watchdogs ou better sit down. Atlantic Ocean. “This next who’ve been According to our OHSU, in an attempt to tracking the HOWDY, passel of local raise funding to meet the year, the district’s Yprognosticators, Phil Knight challenge grant, Legislature leadership 2014 is going to be a weird, is going to pretend to be af- calls for decisions wild ride for the Rose City. fi liated with the Oregon Hu- lately. “Nepo- NEW YEAR, They’re predicting a new mane Society to increase schools to tism can be owner and new name for the donations. show a 10 troubling,” Trail Blazers (who will make Oregon hikers fi nd a piece says Bruce it to the NBA fi nals this sea- of fur in a large footprint in percent Scherer, a son), Fred Armisen could the Mount Hood National improvement. HAVE A MT. parent at become mayor, the Ducks Forest that they send to the We’ve got a Metropolitan will wear see-through uni- TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ forensic lab in Ashland. Af- ways to go. Learning forms and hashtags will take Could it be Mayor Fred Armisen? ter the lab tests the sample, Center and over the world. Life might imitate art in 2014, they fi nd evidence proving But we’ve got member of TABOR BEER We asked a bunch of peo- according to predictions. it is sasquatch DNA. They to be the group ple from across the city to then sequence the DNA and aspirational.” Parents for predict what will happen in 2014 (most of fi nd that it’s a 99.99 percent match with Bill Excellent “Hallucinogens from Mount Tabor them with tongue fi rmly in cheek) and this is Sizemore. — Lolenzo Poe, Portland what they told us: When the Portland Water Bureau caps the Portland Public Principals. mushrooms leach into Portland’s reservoir on Mount Tabor, the weight of the Schools chief equity “Aren’t there water supply. As a result, beer About that beer ... cement causes a change in groundwater fl ow, offi cer other consul- brewed with Portland water becomes leaching hallucinogens from Mount Tabor tants out By Ethan Siegel mushrooms into Portland’s water supply. As there? It just the No. 1 selling beer worldwide.” For the fi rst time, more than 50 percent of a result, beer brewed with Portland water looks like favoritism, using the — Ethan Siegel, Oregon Republicans accept global warming, personal connections.” theoretical astrophysicist and blogger after the Greenland ice sheet falls into the See 2014 / Page 2 Scherer equates it to PPS’ hire of consultant Yvonne Deck- ard, who shares a history with Superintendent Carole Smith at Open Meadow Alternative Schools. From 2005 to 2009, Deckard was board chairwom- Market squeezes last-minute bucks an at Open Meadow while Smith was executive director. Deckard has been helping PPS ness was off about 10 percent in contract negotiations with Saturday Market’s this holiday season. A number of the Portland Association of other vendors approached be- Teachers. With less than season ends with few fore the market closed for Further back in history, PPS two hours desperate shoppers Christmas Eve echoed Shapiro’s Interim Superintendent Diana before Saturday estimate. Which is a contrast to Snowden in 1999 brought her Market closes the national data put out in a brother-in-law, Steve Gold- for the year, By PETER KORN post-Christmas report from schmidt (the ex-governor’s Tracy Chandler The Tribune MasterCard SpendingPulse. brother), to PPS as a highly paid purchases a According to MasterCard, consultant. Two years later he catnip toy from The bean counters at Mas- overall holiday sales were up 3.5 was hired as the district’s hu- Carla Kaminski’s terCard may think that the percent from last season’s man resources director until his Spoiled Cat stall holiday shopping season was spending, and holiday related costly termination in 2005. on Christmas a winner, but Andre Shapiro items such as jewelry and elec- Scherer says he doesn’t know Eve. Chandler, is still waiting for a return to tronics rose 2.3 percent. Econo- the Adairs, and “they they incidentally, was the days when he’d sell $1,000 mists say the day after Christ- might be doing dynamite work. pretty sure her worth of porcelain in the four mas has become one of the hot- ... But from a distance it looks cats wouldn’t hours before Christmas Eve. test shopping days of the year, bad, and it looks to be a pattern care if she was For 23 years, Shapiro and wife but Saturday Market vendors of behavior” for the district. a day late. Deborah have been selling their weren’t around to reap the TRIBUNE PHOTO: art at Portland’s Saturday Mar- See PPS / Page 8 JONATHAN HOUSE ket. By Shapiro’s estimate, busi- See MARKET / Page 5 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the WAS IT SOMETHING THEY SAID? stories of our communities. Thank you Inside — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B8 for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, January 2, 2014 2014: The year locals start using umbrellas? unprecedented fourth term, ■ From page 1 but only after defeating an ef- fort by Republicans that would becomes the No. 1 selling beer have allowed Oregonians to worldwide. vote online — using the Cover Ethan Siegel is a theoretical Oregon website. astrophysicist who writes the By year’s end, voters will de- science blog “Starts With A cide the fi ctional “Portlandia” Bang.” is actually more functional than the real Portland and elect Dude, let’s watch Fred Armisen mayor. the Percolators Mark Mason and Dave An- derson are Mark and Dave on By Ross Day KPAM 860 AM from 3 to 6 p.m. I have been asked to predict, weekdays. as best I can, what is going to happen in Oregon in 2014. I Steve, Cher’s attorney have conducted several scien- is calling tifi c tests, and here is what my Magic 8 Ball told me: By Steve Novick Gov. John Kitzhaber solves The city of Portland intro- Oregon’s CRC debate: trade duces BikeCher and is prompt- Multnomah, Columbia and Clat- ly overwhelmed by gypsies, sop counties to Washington for tramps and thieves. Eastern Washington and a Corporate alliance succeeds county-to-be-named later. The in creating a new city water CRC is Washington’s problem district; companies start dump- TRIBUNE FILE PHOTOS now. ing all their toxic waste into the A bunch of Voodoo Doughnuts could bring Oregon lawmakers together to save the state’s tax system, according to predictions. Oregon becomes the third city water supply. Floy Jones state to legalize marijuana. By says cheerfully, “At least it’s not His band is in the middle of a study of East Portland’s future. the end of the year, Oregon fl uoride!” legal fi ght with federal offi cials Nick Christensen is a news turns from a blue state to a red- City and county offi cials re- to trademark its name.