Sits in the window Steve’s savior. Menace to me. Air conditioner OK, so that reads like something one of my kids would have written in third grade. When they forgot to do their…

This BBC article, written before yesterday’s Presidential election in France, reviews one of its issues: the 35-hour work week mandated by a previous Socialist government. This was one of the big factors in…

Specifically, please.

Neat dateline, huh? I hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend to go with it. If I hadn’t been off having fun with my family yesterday, I could have posted this earlier today, at…

The Oregonian today announces the opening of an Editorial Board blog. So far, it posts mostly the announcement and a bunch of Op-Eds. I plan to monitor its progress before affording it the…

….or Portland, Oregon, is a wonderful place to be.

Kayak.com. I found this site while spending six hours searching for flights to get my son Maxwell home from New Jersey for Spring Break, the weekend he was stranded in Newark by a…

Way back in the first week of writing this blog, I posted a proposal for Transparent Public Process at Portland City Council hearings. The gist of the article was that if decisions have…

Not much ivy seen here, at Tryon Creek State Natural Area. That’s because volunteers work every week ripping it out. Some individuals have cleared acres by themselves. Groups sponsor 2 acre plots and…

Well, this is nice: next week’s Agenda for Portland City Council’s formal sessions shows the five spaces for Citizen Communications are all taken. The first is me urging No votes on all four…