The Citywide Parks Team meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 15 has been postponed due to the primary guest speaker being ill. The topic, sale of parks property, will be rescheduled, probably for the…

I went to the City Council’s hearing this morning, accepting the Urban Forestry Management Plan Implementation Strategy/Action Plan I mentioned in last week’s “Next Up at City Council” preview. I knew it was…

In the URL for Nigel Jaquiss’ article in Willamette Week today on Measure 26-90, the proposed changes to the Civil Service section of Portland’s Charter, it’s labeled “editorial”. Good to know, as opinions…

Mayor Tom Potter hasn’t yet replied to my letter of last week. In my experience over 15 years of communicating with City staff, the delay isn’t unusual – especially from a Mayor’s office,…

To those of us who knew the pain Of valentines that never came And those whose names were never called When choosing sides for basketball Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” Anyone who’s been reading…

Anna Griffin of the Oregonian called me yesterday, for an article she’s writing on proposed revisions to Portland’s Public Campaign Finance system. It was such a relief to be asked about a topic…

Cape Kiwanda

This item is more suited to a weekend posting, but I heard it on the BBC News this morning on 89.9 AllClassical.org. The quotation in bold below made me smile. Malaysian monks at…

The Oregonian today calls attention to a proposed ban on automatic dialed, recorded telephone messages, known as robo-calls. During my campaign for City Council, several campaign consultants urged me to use them. “They’re…