The Mercury‘s Scott Moore reports in this week’s “In Other News” column that a City of Portland Land Use Hearings Officer has ruled that the city has the right to require landowners to…

The folks planning a new $2billion+ bridge across the Columbia River are out in the community again. They will be at Open House-style meetings: Wednesday, July 25, 2007│4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Former…

A few days ago, I posted a lament about the difficulty of finding out about a meeting to plan expansion of the Portland Streetcar – and about flawed agency websites in general. I…

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said,…

The Tribune publishes an important article by Peter Korn today, on the financial impacts of construction of the new MAX lines on the transit mall, on businesses on 5th and 6th. It’s a…

In a comment thread over the weekend, Chris Smith observed that using RSS feeds can greatly enhance citizens’ ability to track issues and receive the kinds of information they’re interested in. I responded…

The following is an article from The Economist, June 14th 2007. They headed it “Vote for me, dimwit”. Although I’m not running for anything right now, using that as a blog post title…