In case you were wondering, this explains the colors on the water in yesterday’s photo. The Morrison Bridge was built in 1913, according to Sharon Wood Wortman’s The Portland Bridge Book. Its paint…

The rest of the world doesn’t care that much about Tony Blair stepping down. I kid you not: This morning on the 8 a.m. BBC World News on Portland’s 88.9 AllClassical.org radio, more…

You wouldn’t know it by the small number of comments on my posts this week on Measure 26-92 to change governance of the Portland Development Commission (PDC), and on House Bill 3104 to…

… in the Willamette.

After my three-minutes at the microphone at City Council this morning, four representatives of the Hempstalk 2006 festival spoke about the unfairness of the denial of their request for a permit from Portland…

Note: Regular readers have seen much of the following before. There is a new issue (underlined) towards the end, plus my report of the Council’s response, after the text of my statement. My…

There is a lively string of comments on Jack Bog’s blog regarding my post below, questioning House Bill 3104 which could/would overrule Portland voters by making the Council the budget committee for the…

Measure 26-92 to change the Charter chapter on the Portland Development Commission (PDC) has had precious little review, especially considering PDC’s budget hovers around a quarter of a billion dollars. One of the…

Something else that’ll make your head spin. Cinco de Mayo celebrates a Mexican army’s victory over a French force twice its size, at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City, on the…