For the past three years, I’ve been a member of the Blue Ox Toastmasters club. We meet every Monday lunchtime (except holidays), at the Bonneville Power Administration building, just over the MAX tracks…

One of the things people found interesting, or weird, in my campaign last year was the film of our zebra car shown at Candidates Gone Wild. Note, “our” zebra car – CGW chose…

The month of mourning for President Gerald Ford ended on Thursday – 30 days with flags flying at half staff. He handled his assigned task after Watergate with care, and I don’t begrudge…

The very first item on next week’s Portland City Council agenda is unusually interesting: under Communications, “Request of Margaret D. Strachan to address Council regarding planning in Portland”. Margaret Strachan was a City…

Site traffic has tended to fall off a little on weekend days. Apparently many readers check my Current News/Opinions updates during the work week, then understandably spend less time at their computers on…

The Oregonian reports today on layoffs at Freightliner – 800 good heavy manufacturing jobs disappearing from Swan Island. Interesting post on Indymedia predicting major reorganization, on September 18, 2006 (some of the comments…

Anyone want a free ticket to the sold-out Multnomah County Democrats’ Caffe Democratica event tonight? It’s at the Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder. Spaghetti dinner, and entertainment by guest speaker Jim Hightower, included.…

The City of Portland’s Measure 37 site is excellent. Clearly linked from the front page of PortlandOnLine.com, it has a nice map showing location, type, and cost of claims submitted so far. And…