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(If you don’t have a WCCLS public library card, ask how to do this search at your own public library. For example, you can also find this magazine, and others, online through the Multnomah County Library)

Most people don’t know that with only a public library card, they can read, online and free, the product reviews (and everything else) that appear in Consumer Reports magazine. But you can!

Here’s how you do this at Washington County (WCCLS) public libraries (your own public library will have its own search strategy):

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You may not know that the Battle for Public Access to GAO Documents (and its sister Battle for Free, Public Access to CRS documents) has been waging for a very long time (decades, in fact).

Here is a summary from WisBlog, “Exclusive Rights to GAO Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson West?” (thanks, Bonnie!), with links to relevant documents and related stories (and here is the one from the Law Librarian Blog).

Excerpt from Boing Boing story, “Did the US gov’t sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West?” :

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The 2008 edition of the Spanish Language Legal Network Directory is available. It covers mostly the Portland, Salem, Eugene corridor, but attorneys from further afield are included, e.g. Vancouver, Grants Pass, Bend, Jacksonville, and Roseburg.

Spread the word to attorneys you know who might want to be added to future editions.

It is available only in print right now. Copies can be found at public libraries, county law libraries, and some non-profits organizations.

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I loved this expression, purposefully cowardly, as a description of the care pedestrians and bicyclists must take when traveling the highways and byways.

It was used by Neal Pierce in an interview he had with J. David Santen, Jr., in the March 13th, Oregonian, inPortland article, “Why parks? Neal Peirce has some answers.”

Excerpt: “[Santen] You wrote recently that 2008 might be the year of the bicycle, and point to Portland as a place that has worked to make biking safer. I recently bought a bike and a trailer for small children — it’s still kind of scary.

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Lots of lawyers blog, but not all blog about substantive law. Add this one to the growing list of Oregon substantive legal blogs (see sidebar of Blogs-Oregon Legal Topics):

Northwest Condo and HOA Blog.

This blog was also featured here at Inter Alia.

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There is a lot of information at the Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) web site including free Current Building Codes, news releases, and more.

*My previous OLR post on Building Codes, in Jan. 2007.

**Coming soon from the Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) (source):

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The law firm of Swanson, Thomas & Coon has developed a guide to Oregon Pedestrian Rights: A Legal Guide to Pedestrians on Foot

Recent statistics on pedestrian deaths and injury can be found in the Oregon Traffic Safety Performance Plan, Fiscal Year 2008, Public Version.

More on Oregon traffic, transportation, pedestrians, bicyclists and the law:

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Article in the Oregonian, Busts Stick to Innocent Drivers, Feb 24th, by Susan Goldsmith:

“Lance Briggs was a month into his new job at the Oregon Lottery when a sheriff’s deputy stopped him for speeding, then arrested him for allegedly driving under the influence after a sobriety test raised suspicions.

Briggs wasn’t intoxicated, it turned out. He blew zero on a breath test at the Polk County jail, and a urine sample, sent out that night, came back negative for drugs. Officials never filed charges of any kind.

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