Fridays, particularly those before a holiday extended weekend, are known in some parts of Britain as “Poets’ Day”. Push Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. Happy Poets’ Day – not that I’m suggesting any of…

Oh my, I just had an “Amanda Fritz moment”! That was the subject title of an e-mail in my in-box a few days ago. Wondering whether that meant something akin to a bad…

The Mercury and Bus Project held a forum a couple of weeks ago on “Gentrification”. I noticed when viewing Matt Davis’s photographs on Blogtown that all three speakers and the majority of the…

Steve took the fire jam photographs I’ve been posting all week here in Portland, but this one is from Burning Man. Participants hang papers or trinkets with their hopes on the Wishing Tree.…

My friend Alesia J. Reese, proud employee of the United States Postal Service, gently chides me not to use the term “junk mail”. She points out that the mail is not ‘junk’ to…

This week, the Tribune in a Sources Say feature titled, “Waiting really is hardest part”, and the Mercury in “The Waiting Game”, both cover the clock ticking on Mayor Tom Potter’s decision on…

I talked with a wise woman recently, who said something like this: “We ask good people to run for elective office, and when they do we revile and criticize them.” I was reminded…

This morning’s Portland City Council session was a great example of where having five people with power can work really well. We saw it a little in Commissioner Sam Adams’ Sweatshop-free resolution, which…