The Mercury and today the Tribune offer insightful coverage of proposed changes to the City of Portland Lobbying Ordinance, up for public hearing tomorrow. Most of the debate centers on the threshold for…

I heard that employees of the US Postal Service (USPS) have been told that the Postal Service has purchased/acquired property off NE 82nd Avenue for a new processing facility. They already have four…

Sent to me by reader Jason Savage, a professional photographer who moved to Portland about four years ago. See some of his portfolio here. Jason tells me the photo is the front window…

This is the first in a series, aiming to post concise, clear information about who pays for what in Portland projects. See previous post for a summary of the main components of the…

When researching for Weekend Update, I came across this Willamette Week article from September 2006, which in turn quotes the Portland Development Commission as its source for the following numbers for expenses and…

Sunday’s Oregonian Opinion section carries several articles about how schools should deal with behavior that is either childish or deviant. I especially appreciate the one by associate editor Doug Bates, who compares responses…

What are they? Hint: taken in Idaho.

Wow, check out the Oregonian‘s City Hall Blog! Like the print version’s coverage of Portland news, it seems re-energized with Jim Meyer and Andy Dworkin taking over as the City Hall beat reporters.…

The BBC reports on a study newly published by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), apparently showing that being out in sunshine as a child cuts the rist of developing Multiple…