Amanda Fritz

Steve took this photo last weekend, a short distance from our home. Can anyone guess what it is, and tell what it’s part of?

The Oregonian today weighs in with an editorial on the proposed renaming of Interstate Avenue, saying (emphasis mine): “On Thursday, following Leonard’s cue, the Portland City Council will consider appointing a commission to…

I don’t often link to provincial newspapers in other countries. “Man who beat Roger Bannister”, the headline from last Wednesday’s Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds, England, tells some of my 80 year-old father’s…

This one’s for Jim, who commented on the photo of the top of the St Johns Bridge a couple of days ago that he was married below it. It’s easy to see why…

With all the anguish created by the five men on the Council not following the law on the process for renaming a City street, neighbors may have missed the fact that the Portland…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As I drove across the St Johns Bridge at noon yesterday, I realized for me, this bridge holds up against more famous ones I’ve seen…

I realized on Thursday that I didn’t post Next Up at City Council last week – one of the few times I’ve missed doing so this year. I’m sorry for myself as well…

Our son Luke, hiking the Virgin River in Zion National Park, Utah, this past July. Steve posted this photo as our monitor’s wallpaper today. Luke just left for the airport to schlepp cargo…

Portland voters have another choice to vote on, beyond Measures 49 and 50 – Measure 26-93, which amends the Police and Fire Disability and Retirement program rules. I’m voting YES on all three…