Amanda Fritz

As noted in Next Up at City Council, 2/13/08, below, the City Council is making some highly suspect decisions in siting the Resource Access Center for homeless people in Old Town/Chinatown. Before I…

First on the Agenda on Wednesday morning at the Portland City Council this coming week are five citizens using the Citizen Communications slots to talk with Council about potential siting of a Resource…

Guest Post by Kris MurrayDeputy Director, DonorsChoose.org Thanks for using your blog to promote the Jefferson High School project on DonorsChoose.org. I’m thrilled that it was fully funded! We are new to Portland,…

Six months ago, Steve and I were on our vacation touring National Parks. This is Yosemite, July 2007. California dreamin’, on such a winter’s day.

The Agenda for the Portland City Council this coming week shows only a Wednesday morning session. Remember, the following is a skimming of the Agenda, in the short time available to me in…

Vista House, in the Columbia River Gorge, taken a couple of weeks ago. The snow today is beautiful, here at my house at about 650′ on the north slope of Mt. Sylvania. It’s…

Melody Rose, a professor at Portland State University, gave a fascinating talk last weekend at a training I attended. She is researching for a book on media coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s…

A little late in the day, but maybe pondering will help the time pass pleasantly. Where was this photograph taken?