Astoria, Ore., is called 'Little San Francisco' for a reason – several reasons, actually 'Little San Francisco' on the Columbia River has made an amazing comeback from its fishing and lumber days. Astoria, Ore., is tucked near the mouth of the mighty Columbia River where Lewis and Clark came to a weary halt in view of the Pacific Ocean. Fortunes made from fishing and lumber mills lined the town's hilly streets with Victorian flights of fancy, thus the sobriquet "Little San Francisco ...
June 29, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Karl Rove in The Brown Daily Herald ...George Bush - as well as pals Cheney, Rummy, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and many others - have done, according to Taibbi, is morph the word Republican "into a poisonous sobriquet that no politician with bipartisan...