Mayor-elect Sam Adams names his right-hand man.
Amy J. Ruiz
Posted inBooks
Conservatives are the Matter
An Interview with Best-selling Pundit Thomas Frank
Best-selling political pundit Thomas Frank discusses how the conservative movement is ruining America.
Posted inCity Hall
Mayor Tom Potter Jumps Into the Randy v. Rosie Spat
Mayor Tom Potter may be on vacation, but he still found time to file an editorial with the Oregonian, expressing his support for Police Chief Rosie Sizer. As you may recall, mayor-elect Sam Adams has asked Commissioner Randy Leonard to review the police department and the city’s entire public safety system. In the process, Sizer […]
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Good Morning, News!
We’re number 13! In booziest cities… Sen. Barack Obama will announce his running mate choice to his supporters first, via email and text message. Old School media falls all over itself on this development: “In an e-mail to supporters last night, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said that Obama “is about to make one of […]
Posted inPolitics
Street(s) Renaming Update
Commissioner Sam Adams just called, to clarify a few things around street renames. He’s about to file a resolution for next week’s city council meeting, appointing a panel of three historians who will vet street rename proposals–both the ones for Cesar Chavez and Douglas Adams–and re-committing the city to following the rename process outlined in […]
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Troubled Water
Environmental Activists Target the Columbia River Crossing with Civil Disobedience
Environmental activists climb the Morrison Bridge to protest another bridge project—the Columbia River Crossing freeway expansion.
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Hall Monitor
Schnookered
Commissioner Sam Adams wants to hire a $35,000 consultant to make sure the César Chávez street-renaming process is “squeaky clean.”
Posted inPortland
Whatever Happened to Renaming 42nd Avenue?
Remember late last year, when a group of folks wanted to rename a street in Portland for one of their heroes? No, I’m not talking about the Cesar Chavez effort. I’m talking about the move to rename 42nd Avenue for Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In early January, Aaron Duran of […]
Posted inBikes
On the Radio Wednesday: Bikes vs. Cars
I’m on the radio Wednesday morning with BikePortland.org‘s Jonathan Maus and the Oregonian‘s Joe Rose, to talk about the war going on. You know: The “bikes vs. car” battle royale in the streets. More specifically, we’re going to be talking about the media’s portrayal of “the war.” I think it’ll get a little testy–the Oregonian’s […]
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Blog Off!
Call me a geek, but I’m really very excited about this: August 18-22, the Portland Water Bureau and the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross are having a BLOG OFF to see which is the best! See, the Water Blog gets all kinds of attention for being an innovative way to communicate with […]
Posted inPolitics
Anti-Columbia River Crossing Protest on the Waterfront
I’m on the scene, keep checking back for updates! 1:17 pm. I’m huddled with a few reporters at Waterfront Park, waiting for the crew from Convergence for Climate Action to set up some street theater–something involving long bamboo poles, cutouts of cars, and lots of anti-bridge posters–and to pull the trigger on a bigger act […]
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Good Morning, News!
Did the army scientist suspected in the anthrax attacks–who committed suicide last week–really do it? The New York Times calls the evidence ‘circumstantial.’ Cue the conspiracy theorists! Former President Clinton finally realizes his wife isn’t the nominee, and kinda sorta says nice things about Sen. Barack Obama as he looks back on the primary: “[There […]