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OurPDX shared links for November 16th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 16th:

Oregon’s unemployment levels off, but workers are leaving the state’s labor force | Econ International Blog
For the policy wonks in the house, a blog that’s new to me (but maybe not for you), done by economist Eric Fruits. [...]

11.16.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for November-ish

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) from November, oh, 5th, no 10th, no…screw it, let’s just call it a November-ish roundup, shall we? I’m starting with the most timely first, more contemplative posts closer near the end…

November 15: Steve’s Cheese and Foster and Dobbs anniversary parties | Dave [...]

11.14.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for November 5th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 5th:
(yes, it’s really long and bloated; I’ve had no time for actual writing lately, but have found cool stuff in the last day or so…)

A new way of supporting Mercy Corps | Mercy Corps
A Mercy Corps staffer writes: [...]

11.05.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for October 28th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 28th:

If Criticism is Dead, Nobody Mourned « Steven Walling
Can you take a moment from mourning the lost art of print newspapering to spare some sympathy for the critic? Steven Walling thinks you should… “Most people these days [...]

10.28.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for October 26th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 26th:

Cort and Fatboy in first full interview since KUFO massacre | Oregon Media Central
From the interview…
OMC: What's the most realistic, concrete way that Portland radio could be made better? Then, what's the fantasy way, and why is that [...]

10.27.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX Shared Links for October 9th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 9th:

EAT.DRINK.THINK.: It’s not your mother’s Castagna
Horseradish snow? Celery root in ash? Bruce Bauer gives an exhaustive overview of his experience at the Castagna preview dinner last evening; read it for yourself for the full meal deal. [...]

10.09.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX Shared Links for October 6th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 6th:

Dwight Jaynes | No Comcast? You may be able to see Trail Blazer games this season after all
Can it be so? Dwight says this unconfirmed rumor just might be true… "During the offseason, the NBA apparently [...]

10.06.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for October 5th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 5th:

Art Scatter » Oregon Ballet Theatre: Can this marriage be saved?
Former Oregonian arts writer Bob Hicks weighs in on the ongoing OBT drama (which I'd totally missed until tonight.) "The internal dissension at Oregon Ballet Theatre just [...]

10.05.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for August 16th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for August 16th:

The Final Sunday Parkway of 2009 and the Hawthorne Street Fair
Dave describes his day…"The streets were eerily empty at 9:30am when Heather and I left the house. In the cool silence we rode to SE Lincoln to join [...]

08.16.2009 See the rest →

He preferred Hasselblad

by Cosmic Charlie

One of my favorite people died last month.
At seventeen, I’d already been out of traditional school for a couple of years. (Welcome, fellow dropouts!) I had trouble dealing with my peers and couldn’t handle high school, so I took an alternative path. With a little help from special people, I had a GED by sixteen [...]

07.08.2009 See the rest →

OurPDX shared links for June 29th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for June 29th:

Coping with deployment: A wife’s tale | KATU.com
Sarah Gilbert writes a moving guest contribution about planning for her husband’s eventual deployment to Iraq – “I don't know whether it was minutes or hours or even a day: the [...]

06.29.2009 See the rest →
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