This photo is posted for a reader who enjoyed the one of the Colosseum on Sunday. It’s taken in an alley in Venice, outside the Hotel San Gallo. Take the train to Venice…

Review of Portland’s City Charter is a good idea. The proposal on the ballot in May, Measure 26-89, is not. Top Three Reasons to Vote No on 26-89, ongoing Charter Review: 1. Fifteen…

Murmurs in Willamette Week on 3/28/07 pointed out that the pro-Charter Change lobby fudged one of their Voters Pamphlet statements, in asserting the Charter Review Commission took 2,000 hours of testimony. In fact,…

Mount Hood, obviously. But taken from where?

Portland City Council’s Agenda for this upcoming week features two important Parks issues: *355 TIME CERTAIN: 9:30 AM – Intergovernmental Agreement with Metro to receive the local share component of the 2006 Open…

Preachers may be inspirational or boring, challenging or soothing; pastors, scholars, poets. Even a few stand-up comedians. I’m married to the son of a preacher man (and woman, since from its inception in…

Steve took this photograph inside the Colosseum in Rome. Completed in 80 A.D., the Colosseum was threatened with demolition by Sixtus V, Pope from 1585-1590, who wanted to turn the site into a…

Several bloggers have provided insightful analysis of the Hackett Report this week. Mayor Potter and proponents of Charter change are touting this consultant’s study as giving evidence of $10-15m in savings to be…

The Oregonian carries two Editorials and an article today that deserve special attention and kudos. Learning while black calls attention to disparities in disciplinary suspensions and expulsions in Portland Public School’s middle schools.…