Guest post by Linda Robinson, chair, Portland Citywide Parks Team Citywide Parks Team Meeting Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:00 – 8:30 pm Portland City Hall Rose Room (3rd Floor) 1221 SW 4th Ave…

CNN Money reported this week that Oregon ranks 37 of 50 states in state and local taxes paid as a proportion of personal income. This means our tax burden in relation to income…

When I checked Dawn, Pakistan’s most widely-circulated English language newspaper’s web site last Sunday, it informed me there was no print version that day due to a “newspaper holiday”. I’d never heard of…

They shall mount up with wings as eagles; They shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.Isaiah 40:31 It’s Friday, and if you’re reading this, you made it…

The following is a Letter to the Editor of Willamette Week by Linda Robinson, East Portland resident. It is in response to Field of Schemes, an article published last week about the Master…

Yesterday evening at the Mercury‘s fun-filled forum on Charter reform, I was delighted to participate in their Five-minutes-on-each-of-the-Others section at the end of the program. The Main Event was the Form of Government…

I realized early in my citizen advocacy adventures that what we read in the newspapers isn’t always entirely accurate. As time went by, while I was on the Portland Planning Commission and especially…

I received a mass e-mail from Commissioner Sam Adams this morning, with information from this blog post on his site regarding a question of our times: “Paper or Plastic?”. Grocery bags, cloth versus…

Interesting snip from Charlie-FM, heard on my way home from the Wilson commute this morning: Sunday – 26% more hospital patients die. See Cardiac waits can kill in last week’s Tribune.Monday – More…