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Monday, January 10, 2022
Sunday, January 9, 2022
This essay is republished from I Stand. Will YOU?
Author’s Note: I miss Deke’s writing on Blogspot. It was so much easier than this platform. Now he’s gone and it’s up to me to (periodically) write the life of a Portland Bus Operator. But I’m not happy about it. It’s just something I need to do; for YOU, dear brothers and sisters.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
TRIMET SCANNER JAN 7
Most of yesterdays calls were lost as the scanner was down for the majority of the day. These calls are brought to us by THEREALPOOTIE
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
OZZIE GONZALES
Anyone who listens to my board videos will know that Ozzie is my favorite board member, despite me relentlessly mocking him on occasion. I didn't know anything about his history until now and its pretty interesting. My opinion is that he actually has the highest IQ in the room during those board meetings which is why I keep expecting some sort of miracle to come from him like we had with Lyn Lerbach (click) when he was on the board. (he got booted off the board by the criminal crony Kitzhaber)
González, whose parents immigrated from Mexico, grew up in a very different environment. “I was raised in a working class family that moved to this country not speaking the language, looking for new opportunities,” he says. “I was the first one in the family to speak English
I made my first dollar and I bought my first bicycle with money I made recycling cans and bottles out of trash cans.
You can read the rest of his biography here