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(no longer) LIVE! It’s the 2nd Media Circus Extravaganza!

by Betsy Richter

…later…
As threatened, hereare the results (the ones that weren’t as blurry, anyway) of my own random iPhone crowd shots. Yes, I realize I’m probably one of the worst photographers around — but as I often say to my children: “You get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit.” Deal.

(Yes, that’s [...]

12.13.2009 See the rest → 7 comments

Play Me A Tune, Mr. Council-Man

by morganpdx

While going about my day recently, I came across something so …just…well frankly, the only word for it is Portlandy.

On one hand, this certainly is an excellent way to get people to notice you and pay attention. And as a method of drumming up the 1000 signatures and 5$ contributions in order [...]

12.10.2009 See the rest →

Portland Police: The Problem is Perception

by PAgent

Governer Kulongoski decides to invite several Portland-area police departments to a friendly competition. The Beaverton Police Department, the Gresham Police Department, and the Portland Police Department all take part.
A jackrabbit is marked with blue dye, then released into Forest Park. Each of the Police Departments in turn is given a chance to locate and [...]

12.07.2009 See the rest → 3 comments

What’s in Our Water, Pt Two (Or, Where’s the Water Bureau, Anyway?)

by Betsy Richter

I’m sorry — I’m just not buying the story.
Sure, I believe that we had E.coli in Reservoir 3 over in Washington Park (who could deny it, when we’ve had one…two..and now three tests confirming same?)
But the story I’m not swallowing is the one where the City gets to pat itself on [...]

11.29.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Multnomah County Chair Breaks Back in Skiing Accident

by Betsy Richter

Most of us knew already that Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler is an iron man in the truest sense of the word. He’s completed the Iron Man Triathalon 3 times already, in between excursions to Mt. Everest & showshoeing to the North Pole — not to mention going mano-a-mano with Metro & the City [...]

11.29.2009 See the rest →

*What’s* In Our Water Again…??? (The PDX Reservoir Scare)

by Betsy Richter

It was a casual, relaxing Saturday evening. That is, until this announcement flashed over thousands of PDX Twitter clients, and pandemonium struck. The announcement?
MayorSamAdams: DRINKING WATER ALERT: Selected customers need to boil water for one minute: http://www.portlandonline.com/water/.
And with that, thousands of water customers west of the Willamette River were [...]

11.28.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

WMTM Redux: Founder Ron Buel Responds

by Abraham Hyatt

Last weekend’s We Make The Media conference has generated more debate on blogs and Twitter than any other journalism event in recent memory.
Ron Buel, the founder of the event, has now weighed in on the sometimes-heated conversation. But since the conference site doesn’t have a comments section, we asked Buel if we could [...]

11.24.2009 See the rest → 17 comments

Drive to Downtown PDX? Not Any More…

by Betsy Richter

I’ve been doing a slow burn about this for months now — but the match hit the haystack Saturday afternoon.
See, over the last few months, I’ve been trying to reduce my driving trips downtown. Between the challenges finding on-street parking, the non-functioning new smart readers, the parking tickets I’ve gotten mere [...]

11.17.2009 See the rest → 15 comments

Fox 12 Helps Marysville Regroup

by Cosmic Charlie

I suppose at some point it’s every kid’s fantasy to have their school burn down. (“But Maaaawmm, I don’t wanna go to school!”) Sometimes what sounds good in theory sucks in real life, as roughly 500 people found out this week. Marysville School in Southeast Portland caught fire during class the other day. All the [...]

11.12.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

‘Tis Downtown Portland

by PAgent

Unless you’ve been purposefully avoiding downtown, you should have noticed that the Christmas…er…”holiday” lights have been up for a while already. Just recently some little conifers in wooden planters appeared along the sidewalks, each one outfitted with a string of lights and a HUGE white solar panel to power them (huzzah – festive AND green).
But [...]

11.12.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Welcome Back

by PAgent

The faithful started gathering shortly after six, standing in the cold rain outside the studio in Pioneer Courthouse Square. As the downpour increased in intensity, some moved down the steps under the shelter of the overhang. A crowd standing around outside a television studio is nothing that unusual — it happens all the time when [...]

11.06.2009 See the rest →
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