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Heavenly choirs sing tonight
The Wilson High School choirs will be singing at The Grotto tonight. If that sounds too cold and wet for you, come to the holiday concert at Wilson, Thursday 12/20 at 7 p.m.
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Bridgeton Neighborhood Association rocks
The Bridgeton Neighborhood Association has a proud history and recent successes in effecting positive changes in Bridgeton, a neighborhood between Marine Drive and the Columbia River, near the airport in North Portland. Portland…
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Nice photograph
Not Portland, but cool. Steve took it this summer at Arches National Park in Utah, using the Honda Civic’s headlights for illumination.
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Buzz phrases I’m glad to see
You may have seen the commercial where audience members play bingo during a corporate training, tracking the speaker’s motivational expressions such as “out-of-the-box-thinking”, “win-win”, “pro-active”, etc. My personal favorite/pet peeve is the word…
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Next Up at City Council, 12/12 – 12/13, 2007
The most important items I see on the coming week’s Portland City Council Agenda are on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, both Time Certain. On Wednesday: 1483 TIME CERTAIN: 2:00 PM – Accept the…
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The pros and cons of K-8 schools
I didn’t really have time to fit in a lunchtime meeting on Wednesday. The lack of posts here and elsewhere is because Tuesday night, my Neighborhood Association Board held a Special Meeting to…
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An important edition of Next Up at City Council
There are some weeks when the Portland City Council’s public hearings agenda looks dull to most people. I hope that by posting Next Up at City Council regularly since the beginning of the…