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Brickbat: Look for the Union Label

Charles Oliver | 8.23.2012 6:00 AM

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Portland, Oregon, Mayor Sam Adams says he will fight an arbitrator's ruling that the city rehire police officer Ron Frashour. Frashour was fired two years ago for fatally shooting an unarmed man in the back, but Frashour's union appealed his termination.

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