Anyone who starts their Communication to Portland City Council with, “Dear Sirs – and unfortunately it is all Sirs” captures my attention and good wishes right away. Former City Commissioner Margaret Strachan not…

Published in today’s Oregonian: “Of the many, many rebuttal points I could give to Susan Nielsen’s opinion piece on fluoridating Oregon’s water (“More than just a pretty smile,” Jan. 21), I offer this…

Portland’s most northerly bridge over the Willamette was completed in 1931. According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, it is the only major highway suspension bridge in the Willamette Valley and one of…

On Monday’s edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart commented on Hillary Clinton’s current campaign slogan: “Let the conversation begin!”: “Not going to help you with men. Too much like ‘we need to…

Portland has won many national awards for its city Planning. Projects such as the 1972 Downtown Plan, the 1988 Central City Plan, and more recently the Hollywood-Sandy Plan and the River Renaissance Intiative…

There is a town in Josephine County in Southern Oregon by the same name, but this is the river in the northern coast range near Highway 26.

Blogging was interrupted this afternoon by going up to OHSU for a routine annual screening exam. No, I didn’t take the tram, and no, this isn’t going to be one of those too-much-information…

Ten days ago, I attended the annual fundraiser dinner of the Columbia Slough Watershed Council. Hot on the heels of the State of the Union, State of the State, and State of the…

OK, so maybe not everyone in Portland listens to classical music during their morning commute. No traffic reports, jokes, Beatles or U2. Count this post as a “Point of Personal Privilege” under Robert’s…

Taken from the St Johns bridge