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Observations on life, politics, government, development, transportation, and happenings around the Portland/Vancouver area.
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Mar 29, 2008Pulse of PDX
@chrisorourke Yes, it's what I use(d) on VanPortlander...
Dec 28, 2007Sara Jeanné
VanPortlander asks, "What's the rush?" when it comes to reporting the news. Read here, including my response.
Feb 1, 2008Portland Mercury
Not content with exploiting other bloggers' content through its Reddit service, Vanportlander, whose blog I'm increasingly enjoying, has a post today about the O, trying to recruit neighborhood bloggers. Two questions: Will they be paid? And how do the O's professional writers feel about this?
It feels skeezy, to me. Very skeezy. Also, about three years too late. Still, anything to keep the paper from going under, eh fellas?
Brandon over at Another Portland Blog (formerly Welcome to Blog) says he's planning to live-blog about camping out for, and attending, the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade.
Sep 5, 2007Jack Bog's Blog
When I wrote about the California blogging pedophile who was moving out of state rather than dealing with his crimes down there, I just knew he was coming this way. And sadly, my intuition was right. Hope I don't see him anywhere near my family. I'm sure I'd wind up paying damages for what will be left of his camera. (Via VanPortlander, which BTW just started today.)
Mar 5, 2008The Vig
I had the pleasure of dining with VanPortlander Aaron Hockley at lunch today. Since he works in Inner Southeast and I'm in the Lloyd District, we decided to split the difference and hit the new Fire On The Mountain outlet at 17th and East Burnside. I was first turned on to them during my time [...]
Nov 18, 2007Portland Mercury
With the Interstate brouhaha somewhat dying down, I was worried I wouldn't have any snowballing controversies to write about anymore, at least for awhile.
Good thing someone's thinking about renaming 42nd Avenue for Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy.
(Thanks to Vanportlander for the heads up.)
from the VanPortlander feed...I haven't entirely abandoned this site but it's taken a back burner to a few other side projects at the moment. My expectation is that when I'm back, it'll be in a bigger, better way. Stay tuned...
Mar 18, 2008
You're going to get more streetcars, whether you like it or not. Just ignore the fact they don't really relieve congestion. PDOT will be holding a series of meetings about future streetcar planning.
On a sorta-related note, my sister was in town last weekend from Phoenix. I asked her how long it takes [...]
Mar 17, 2008
A couple weeks ago I blogged about how TriMet should use the GPS data to provide real-time connection info on buses and light rail train.
Today on #6 both in the morning and afternoon I saw what might be a precursor to that system. Today there were automated announcements (accompanied by message board displays) at [...]
Mar 17, 2008
I was skimming through a post on BlueOregon about the peace rally when I noticed this bit:
Interesting deal...
...my youngest daughter had to be coaxed into going. The deal I finally struck with her was all about quid pro quo... She would come to the Peace Rally & March with me and I would go [...]
Mar 15, 2008
While browsing my feeds today I learned that yesterday Portland lost a blogger. Russell Shaw used to write locally for Metblogs, but was known in wider circles for his work as a tech journalist and blogger for AOL, ZDnet, and the Huffington Post. He passed away while on a business trip in San Jose.
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