Categorize the comment on the basis of insult. If the comment is insulting output Yes, otherwise output No.

[EX Q]: I think this article chooses to ignore the more common sense complaints made by those of us who don't like the way this city is currently being developed.  We can accept that some houses will be torn down and replaced with apartments in the name of density, but too often these numbers are used to justify wasteful and short-sighted building practices.  For instance, in the case of the Eastmoreland sequoia lots (a story I imagine developers and sympathizers of this article scoffed at), the neighborhood offered a very viable plan to build two smaller houses on the property without clearcutting the land, along with compensation for preserving the trees.  Such houses would have been more affordable, and saved a valuable public resource: big trees.  This option was rejected because the developer didn't have kit houses of the right size and shape available.  A little creativity, common sense, and smarts could solve both the issue of density and destruction of the things we like about PDX.
[EX A]: No

[EX Q]: Maybe Penair could use the older planes to send more flights to the Pribilofs (St. George and St. Paul) where currently the 3 times per week flights are sold out all the way through July.
[EX A]: No

[EX Q]: 'The reality is if the oil companies do all leave for states with stable tax structures.'

Jesse, how's that working out in the Dakota's? Unless you just fell off the carrot wagon, the Dakota model was used by are august body to push the last tax structure. Never mind that the landowner's there were paid 10x, in cases, than we are for THEIR oil. THEIR oil, get it? So now the model is rapidly collapsing but none of the wizards in Juneau are warning us plebes of those dangers. 

"Educate yourself and stop being ignorant to the fact even your world is touched by this." 

 I've been educated more than once and I suggest that if you can't hack it then leave. This is the best thing that's happened to Alaska since the crash of the 80's. We will end smarter, leaner and all the chaff will fall out as it should. Painful? Absolutely, as it must.
[EX A]:
Yes