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Re: “RIP Soupy Sales”
I watched him on television when I was a child, and once encountered him in person on the street in New York City. I was probably about five. I cannot believe he was so old. I would have figured he might be forty by now, not in his eighties.
Re: “Can Replacing Car Parking Help Business?”
Define "free." (See book by Donald Shoup)
Re: “Overheard in the Office”
When the Tories win next year, we'll all be changing dentists with you.
Re: “How Southeast Portland SHOULD Look.”
By the way, the term "Mt Hood" Freeway was an overstatement - the first and only segment they had the money for was between the Marquam Bridge and I-205 in Lents. Ultimately they would have tried to extend it from there further east had the first part gotten built but of course that would have been even more expensive.
Re: “The Dead Freeway Society”
It's worth noting the term "Mt Hood" Freeway was a misnomer - it would have run just between the Marquam Bridge and I-205 in Lents, no further east than that. And even that would have destroyed 1% of the housing in the city.
Re: “How Southeast Portland SHOULD Look.”
The $500 million (originally in 1974 dollars but inflated with time - and inflation was high in the late 1970s) ended up being spent on hundreds of road and street projects all over the region, plus a portion of the light rail line to Gresham. The Hwy 26 / 217 interchange, for example, and the widening and signaling of Powell, and highway 43 through Lake Oswego are illustrations of where that money went once the so-called "Mt Hood" Freeway was traded in and the money freed up for other projects. So instead of spending hundreds of millions to destroy one part of town with a mega-project, the same money was spent over a period of nearly twenty years on many, many smaller road and street improvements which benefitted the whole region.
Re: “Can I Still Wear My Phillies Hat?”
I have been wearing my Mets cap all summer and they are having their worst season in years. now I understand maybe I should have joined the crips.
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