All the teams I was cheering for in the NFL playoffs lost last week – the Seahawks, Eagles, Ravens, and Chargers. I wasn’t rooting for either team in today’s first game between the…

“Life seems better when you have someone to laugh with and get lots of hugs” Alessandra Pamela Fritz, age 16 Ali made this comment during one of last week’s snow days. We were…

The Lower Deschutes River, accessed from the Back Country Byway just outside the main street in Maupin, is lovely. An unexpected benefit of this blog is that now, when Steve suggests taking a…

The City Council Agenda this upcoming week has several hold-over items of interest. The 10 a.m. Wednesday Time Certain on the Sit-Lie ordinance, covered extensively at Loaded Orygun here and more recently here,…

KGW posted a report yesterday evening, noting the state inspection team found the Inverness Jail in compliance with 402 of 403 standards. The one they missed was on adequate annual training. We have…

Not looking very warm. The air temperature was 6 degrees, last Sunday morning. We decided to skip swimming in the hot springs pool, even though admission was included in Kah-nee-ta resort’s “Fall dinner…

Loaded Orygun conveys news from Jackson County regarding transferring Measure 37 development rights. Good to see some judicial restraint being exercised on activist conservative Legislators on the Jackson County Commission.

The St. Johns Sentinel‘s new edition carries a report on possible “realignment” of the North Portland police precinct office. My younger son is fond of saying things like, “and when I say ‘yes’,…

Yesterday, I attended the Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette (PPCW) annual luncheon benefit. Excellent attendance. I found it interesting that unlike last year, politicans present weren’t recognized or given a chance to wave.…

I am perhaps the only person in Portland who tossed and turned last night, unable to sleep for fretting about the Charter. And my son at Western Oregon University tells me many readers…