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Lunch in the Park

by PAgent

Simon and Helen Director Park is only a block from Pioneer Courthouse Square, but it resonates to a completely different vibe. Quieter, and somehow more private, sunlight shines down between the FOX tower and the Paramount Hotel to illuminate the park with surprising warmth. In the shadow of the buildings the brisk breeze sucks away [...]

03.18.2010 See the rest → 0 comments

Flushing The Bike Plan Into The Sewer?

by Gil Johnson

Sam Adams, still our fair city’s mayor, is the Will Rogers of public works projects—he’s never met one he didn’t like.
Especially if it has something about it that’s trendy, green or sustainable.
Today, the City Council will vote on Adams’ proposal to siphon $20 million from Portland’s sewer fees to jump start the recently enacted 2030 [...]

03.17.2010 See the rest → 3 comments

What IS That Glowing Orb?

by PAgent

Sunny and 60 degrees.
That’s the forecast for today. And while that hardly constitutes the arrival of spring, the raw unfiltered sunlight is shining down across Portland, and being celebrated in many diverse ways.
In Jamison Square, a gaggle of hipsters ceremoniously exchanged their square-rimmed retro eyeglasses for square-rimmed retro sunglasses.
At Reed College, a small but [...]

02.18.2010 See the rest → 1 comment

African-American Man Stopped by Portland Police, Lives

by Gil Johnson

A young African-American man remains alive and in good health today after being stopped and questioned by Portland Police officers last night.
The man, who said his name is Martell Jered Brandon, was neither tasered, shot with a bean bag gun, shot with a high-powered rifle nor bludgeoned after being intercepted by a pair of police [...]

02.15.2010 See the rest → 19 comments

@mayorsamadams: Twitter On!

by jgx

If we are not part of the conversation or listening to the conversation, then what are we here for? For me the conversation takes many forms today. My personal preferred way is face to face. But that’s not always the way it happens or needs to happen.
We have at our [...]

02.01.2010 See the rest → 12 comments

Looking For Tales of Portland Parking Woes

by Betsy Richter

I’m working on a piece for tomorrow about experiences parking in downtown Portland.
Yes, it’s a follow-up to this piece. Yes, it involves a towing story or two. And yes, I’ve already gotten a ton of feedback in email, thanks to a Twitter call out earlier today. But I want to [...]

01.23.2010 See the rest → 14 comments

Measures 66 & 67: Let’s Do The Math

by Gil Johnson

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “Businesses don’t pay taxes; they just pass the cost of taxes on to—“
OK, so you’ve heard that. Most recently, you probably heard that from the opponents of Measures 66 and 67. One of their arguments is that Measure 67 in particular is nothing more than a sales [...]

01.20.2010 See the rest → 6 comments

A Statement Left Out of the Voter’s Pamphlet…???

by Gil Johnson

Yes, it’s time for another election — this time, the January 26th Special Election. Registered voters have already received their Voters Guide, with ballots due any day now. But we’ve uncovered a statement from a concerned citizen that inexplicably didn’t make it in the Voters Guide. We’re republishing it here in its entirety, [...]

01.10.2010 See the rest → 11 comments

Did You Know…

by Betsy Richter

…that you can still enter to win Xanadu tickets by playing the Xanadu trivia contest on Twitter? Follow @ourpdx & we’ll send out today’s question at 12 noon. First person to respond (yes, on Twitter!) will be entered into a drawing; winner will be chosen on Saturday & will receive ticket’s for Saturday’s opening [...]

01.06.2010 See the rest →

PDX Limericks – New Year’s Eve Edition

by PAgent

Although injuries knock their stars flat,
The Blazers will go to the mat.
Though their line-up grows lean
They’ll still field a team:
Three rookies, one coach, and Trail Cat.
When you marry you think it’s forever,
And it’s fine to be sad when it’s over.
But no matter how mad
You might be at their dad,
You DON’T throw your kids in the [...]

12.31.2009 See the rest → 6 comments

Worst. Commute. Ever.

by PAgent

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I understand that the entire delicate network of our civilization collapses whenever two snowflakes fall within a minute of each other. Heck, I probably only drove in honest-to-goodness snow two or three times the entire time I was in high school.
I, however, had the good fortune to attend [...]

12.30.2009 See the rest → 12 comments
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