Last day of the year, last Oregon Ducks football game due to start in a few minutes. I am grateful for all the fun we had watching college football this year. And that…

Around the corner and into the New Year! This first Portland City Council Agenda of 2008 has a number of interesting items. As the slim pickings recently in postings on this blog indicate,…

Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated today. She could have elected to stay away from her home country, living a life of luxury lecturing in Europe and the Americas. She…

It began snowing at our house, at about 650′ on the slopes of Mount Sylvania, just before noon. The timing was perfect to lighten the mood as we scrambled to clean the house…

I regret to report that as of 9:45 a.m. on Christmas Eve, our home is woefully unprepared for Santa (or anyone else) to visit. We put the lights up the weekend after Thanksgiving,…

This column by Mikel Kelly in The Times of Tualatin/Tigard/Sherwood, describes the writer’s dismay at discovering a trip from SW Portland to Milwaukie that takes 20 minutes by car, requires more than two…

The Portland City Council Agenda for December 19 includes an evening hearing: 1519 TIME CERTAIN: 6:00 PM – Accept report Improving Bicycle Safety in Portland outlining initial City policy improvements and engineering enhancements…