The Forest Grove News-Times reports that John Edwards has pulled out of his scheduled debate with Jack Kemp, which was to have been the Tom McCall Forum featured event in March. I had…

Dear Mayor Potter and Councilmen, I strongly urge you NOT to send the Charter Reform Commission’s recommendations straight to the ballot in May, after Thursday’s hearing, for the following reasons: 1. Charter reform…

I haven’t heard anything further on whether proposed Charter changes regarding the Portland Development Commission (PDC) are a done deal. But this is one topic on which the elected City Council has had…

It’s snowing hard here in SW Portland, with the temperature at 25 degrees. Major kudos to Jack Bog’s blog for saving us from trying to get to school at 7:45 a.m., when all…

Call me a traditionalist. Sentimental. Tied to routine, even. But every December 25th, I want to read an editorial in Oregon’s only statewide daily paper that talks about Peace on Earth and the…

The AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) web site carries the personal story of one of the sanitation workers in Memphis, whose strike Martin Luther King Jr. was supporting when…

What does filling your car’s gas tank in Portland have to do with the cost of corn tortillas in Mexico? Sounds like a riddle, huh? According to the BBC, Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon,…

Ta-da! The following is my very first Guest column, submitted by Frank Dufay: An open letter to The Oregonian Last week I submitted a “letter to the editor” disputing Tri-Met’s assertion that the…

“Walking on water? Seems to have some disadvantages for us birds…”