Amanda Fritz

The Tribune‘s web site posted an article today questioning the ethics of four staff members in Commissioner Sam Adams’ office attending a political campaign training. Sam paid their seminar registration fees out of…

The Portland City Council’s Agenda for Wednesday, October 3, starts with a full slate of five speakers under Citizen Communications, for the first time in many weeks. Three will urge the Council to…

… or yellow. And green. My favorite fall colors. Let’s go Ducks! I’ve auto-scheduled a blog post for mid-day, when I’ll be sitting with Luke behind the goal in General Admission at Autzen…

Such a good crop of reports worth reading today in Portland’s media! In addition to the coverage of Metro’s vote on the Convention Center hotel in the Tribune and Oregonian, reviewed in my…

There are just a few folks who read my blog and don’t routinely check Jack Bogdanski’s. I would like all of you to read, consider, and comment on Jack’s post today on the…

I think it’s a fascinating part of our political process (and life in general) how two people can listen to the same thing and hear it differently; also how two writers can report…

I just realized we haven’t had a photo quiz for a while. This is a close-up of something in one of Steve’s photographs posted in August. Can anyone identify it?

The Association Press via KGW reports the Eugene City Council has voted to legalize alcohol consumption in private parking lots near Autzen Stadium on home football game days. But perhaps the City Council…

Portlanders now have a new Internet resource for local development-related news, in more detail and from a different perspective. The Daily Journal of Commerce‘s site, which used to be for subscribers only, is…