Amanda Fritz

A study of Scottish workers reviewed by the BBC this past week found that “More than a third of workers say they feel “stressed out” by the number of e-mails they receive in…

I mentioned yesterday I was hoping for another Oregonian editorial to argue with today, to help me wake up on Monday morning after a very busy weekend at work. But this one gets…

If you were to ask me to name a form of energy it’s almost impossible to challenge as A Good Thing, wind power would be right up there. Waves, just below. Biofuels are…

Guest Post by Mary Huff I am now a displaced farm girl moved to the big City, and Portland lets us have backyard chickens. [See Chapter 13 of the code. Keeping three or…

I thought we were done with the Streetcar discussion, at least for a couple of weeks until the Council’s vote to dedicate more than $33 million in urban renewal funds and city money…

Over a century after the wreck of the Peter Iredale, its remains still rest in the waves on the shore at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria. The park is a great place,…

In yesterday’s Oregonian, Erin Hoover Barnett covered that land use review appeal from this past Thursday’s City Council Agenda. Y’know, the one I said in last week’s Next Up at City Council I’d…

The BBC carried an interesting history of the development of the Compact Disc yesterday, the 25th anniversary of the production of the first CD. Apparently one of the alternative names for the new…