What do you think we are looking at here? Photo taken on his phone camera by our older son, Luke.

I just returned from the funeral for one of my neighbors – a sweet man, 49 years of age with sons younger than mine, who had a sudden massive heart attack on Friday.…

Guest column by the Coalition for a Livable Future Introduction by Amanda: I volunteer on the Board of the Coalition for a Livable Future. The Regional Equity Atlas is one of the most…

And about time. The Water Bureau today announced the City of Portland has the capacity to accept water/sewer bill payments on line. For literally years, this has been the only repeating bill I’ve…

“What part of our history’s reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?” Alanis Morissette, Hands Clean The Oregonian‘s editorial board follows Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s…

As noted yesterday in Next Up at City Council, Michelle Rudd is being appointed to serve on the Portland Planning Commission. The top Google hits for “Michelle Rudd” Portland are for a lawyer…

One of my earliest posts on this blog was Biodiesel and the price of corn tortillas in Mexico. It should have been titled “Biofuels”, since corn is used to make ethanol, not biodiesel.…

I’m giving you a mountain goat, one of Steve’s photos from his visit to the Oregon Zoo a few weeks ago. That’s as close as you’ll get to an April Fools Day joke…