Earlier this evening, we watched the New Orleans Saints win through to the NFC championship game, beating the Philadelphia Eagles at the refurbished Superdome. Someone in our household is mourning the Eagles loss;…

Jack Bog’s blog points to the newly-posted Sponsorship policy on Portland Parks & Recreation’s web site. It says, “Draft”, but this policy has been being used for years, as if it had been…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not about a day off work or catching sales in the stores. It’s a day for doing the hard work of introspection, of evaluating what more each…

Comet McNaught-Hartley won’t be back in Northwest skies for approximately 300,000 years, so here are not one but two photographs of it. Steve took them yesterday evening, 1/12/07, from Nansen Summit on Mt.…

January 12, 1962: President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal…

Next week’s Council agenda has three huge items: 1. Amend City Code regulations for sidewalk use in high pedestrian use areas – First on the regular agenda on Wednesday, but after “How are…

It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay ~ Alanis Morrisette, “Ironic” I realized five minutes after posting the item immediately below, that I could not have given it a more geeky, less alluring…

One of the things that bugs me most about Portland’s city government is how seldom anyone stops to look at how projects are going, or reports on what went right, what could have…

“… shepherd’s warning”. I’m not a shepherd, and this photo wasn’t taken this morning. But it is cold out there! Makes me so glad we don’t still live in Rochester, NY, where it…

From the BBC: “On 11 January 2002, some 20 men detained in Afghanistan on suspicion of belonging to Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organisation became the first inmates at the newly-opened prison camp at…