A month ago, I wrote about the meeting this Thursday, February 15, 7 p.m. in the Rose Room on the third floor of City Hall, to discuss Sponsorship in Portland’s public parks. Randy…

My brother, Peter Jones, took this photo during their snowstorm last week. He lives in Chesham, on the edge of the Green Belt – London’s equivalent of the Urban Growth Boundary, except the…

Who’s ripping off Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report now? None other than your host of Portland A-Z, aiming to copy Stephen’s wildly successful 435-part series highlighting each of the U.S.…

February 8th’s edition of The Scanner arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It carries the front page article, “Janitors Protest Loss of Union, Benefits”, which begins: “Until a few weeks ago, janitors at the…

North Fork Silver Creek, Silver Falls State Park Fit for a salmon.

There is something extremely satisfying about spending an entire Saturday morning outside, doing physical labor to help the greater good, performing tasks needing a team and sustained effort to accomplish, while breathing fresh…

This is a sweetheart of an agenda, if you can think of something better to do on Valentine’s Day than watch City Council. No consent agenda and no emergency ordinances, since two of…

Last year, the Portland City Council overturned years of neighborhood planning, and the Planning Commission’s recommendation, in refusing to allow mixed use housing and commercial development on a vacant site in Linnton. “Not…

I like trees. Curly or straight, deciduous or coniferous, I’m a tree-hugger. This morning, for the first time this season, I’m headed out to plant them with Friends of Trees. More on this…

Two Sundays ago, on January 28, The Oregonian published an article by Gail Kinsey Hill, titled Green Power at a premium, with the subtitle and theme of “Marketing, overhead heat up costs for…