Tonight, Wednesday January 3, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at Powell’s W. Burnside location, Portland author Sharon Wood Wortman will sign copies of the new 3rd edition of her illustrated book “Bridges”. Guitarist Stephen…

Frank Dufay, a Spirit of Portland Awards City Employee of the Year winner, posts excellent comments in response to my post yesterday on a proposed label system for Portland City Council agenda items.…

Photograph taken by my daughter, Ali, who has inherited many of her father’s talents as well as a good chunk of his sense of humor. The “kew kew” is Ali’s notation for stormtrooper…

A long time ago, when I was new to citizen involvement, I buckled up my three small children into their car seats and drove to Salem for a hearing on school funding. We…

Nothing much on this week’s agenda particularly fires my engines, although there is always a story and someone who cares behind every item on the list. Metro’s Nature in the Neighborhoods, policing New…

1. Where is it? 2. What is it? 3. Who is the artist?

And who is Joe Bozikovich, you ask? He played with my older son on the Wilson High School football team that won the Portland Interscholastic League and went to the state playoffs in…

“OK, so what? What does that have to do with Portland, Oregon?”, I can almost hear you muttering. Or even, “Where are Bulgaria and Romania? Somewhere in Europe, obviously, probably somewhere near Russia?”…

And I’m happy to be home in Portland.

The Oregonian on Mental Health Parity, School Funding When you know something about the topic of an article in a newspaper, it reads differently compared with those issues where the news is completely…