The week in shopping (and shows) starts… now. • Adorn‘s second annual Shop Sale is its biggest of the season, with up to 50% off spring/summer gear. Discounts increase (though selection dwindles) as the days march on. Adorn, 4120 NE Fremont, Today-Mon August 4 • Indie Ella is launching a brand new bag collection, and […]
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New Manhattan High-Rise Will Have a Separate Entrance for Poor People
From NPR News, an outrageous story about affordable housing in New York City: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is under fire for signing off on a building plan that allows a new luxury high-rise on Manhattan’s western edge to have a separate entrance for low-income residents. About 20 percent of the units […]
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Fritz Forces Delay in Money for Downtown Marketing Initiative: She’d Rather Fund East Portland Traffic Crossing
Almost three months after Mayor Charlie Hales proposed a budget that cut nearly $1 million for one of the Portland Business Alliance’s cherished programs, the Downtown Marketing Initiative, the mayor this morning tried to get his colleagues to go along with a (fractional) change of heart. He’s getting his wish, pushing through a small restoration […]
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Did Portland Just Produce the Ultimate Urban Bicycle, or Get Schooled By Four More-Urban Cities?
As we mentioned on Friday, the Portland-based squad that’s been laboring for months to conceive the ultimate city bike unveiled their hard work. Check it out: (Here are better pictures from Jonathan over at BikePortland, since he has a fancy camera and an actual interest in photography.) Christened the “Solid”, this fleet titanium beauty is […]
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Come Check Out Portland’s Answer to the Ultimate Urban Bike Tonight
As we mentioned in March, Oregon Manifest has returned after a years-long hiatus. Back in 2011, the competition produced more than 30 entrants, all with their own takes on the most bad-ass urban utility bike imaginable—a bike with the blingy bells and convenient whistles that could inspire fence-sitting car commuters to tumble off that stubborn […]
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This Week’s Style Events
Turn that heat right back the eff up and get out there: • SaySay Boutique celebrates 10 years with a storewide sale for one day only (or find them on Facebook and RSVP for a preview sale on Thursday night). SaySay Boutique, 1010 SW Morrison, Fri July 25 (and register online for preview sale on […]
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At Least One Labor Union is Helping Pay for Steve Novick’s Latest Street Fee Survey
Taxpayers aren’t the only ones footing the bill for a recent telephone survey that seemed to magically unearth support for higher income taxes to pay for Portland roads—a plan previously dismissed as unfeasible. At least one local labor union confirms it’s arranged to kick in $1,000 for the $16,500 survey commissioned by Transportation Commissioner Steve […]
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Other Cities Keep Giving Us Their Fleas (Markets, That Is)
As previously mentioned, the sustainably minded Urban Air Market—already well established in San Francisco, with over a decade of events spread over various neighborhoods—is making its first foray into the Portland market on August 2 and 3 at the Zidell Yards. In addition to pulling in some of their Bay Area vendors, they’ve tapped a […]
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Portland 2035: The Theoretical Map
As the Oregonian pointed out Monday evening, the city’s released a new interactive map containing all potential projects that might make the cut as part of the seemingly never-ending process of creating a new Comprehensive Plan. The map has tabs for transportation, zoning and infrastructure projects put forth by various city bureaus, and it’d be […]
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Hard Evidence that the US’s Economy is Kept Alive by Immigrants
NYT yesterday: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on Monday ordered 1,000 National Guard troops to the border with Mexico, seizing on a get-tough immigration message that foreshadows the approach to the current crisis by his party in Congress and that could position him in another bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Perry announced the […]
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This Week/end’s Style Events
The week/end in sales is bigger than it looked: • Grayling Jewelry‘s annual sample sale is bigger than ever, with up to 70 percent off past season pieces. Grayling Jewelry, 3115 NE Sandy, now through Sat July 19, 11 am-6 pm • The Ellington handbag warehouse sale is also ongoing, with up to 90% off […]
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Turns Out People Are Okay With an Income Tax Increase to Pay For Streets, City Now Says
First Commissioner Steve Novick told us an income tax increase wasn’t workable for raising the millions in extra revenue he says Portland’s streets need. A poll released in April, Novick told reporters, showed the public didn’t have the stomach for such a raise. Portlanders much preferred a street maintenance fee option, wherein residents would be […]