Another reason Portland is odd: free money to run for office
Posted Fri, Jan 18, 5 a.m.
If this man gathers 1,500 signatures and $5 from each of those folks, he can have another $192,500 to bankroll his campaign for mayor.
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One-upping the Choppaduct
Posted Tue, Dec 30, 10:02 a.m.
A Portland architect concocts a Godzilladuct for the new bridge over the Columbia.
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Can Seattle be a Slow City?
Posted Wed, Dec 24, 6 a.m.
An international movement to change the ethic of growing cities seems right for the Northwest. But we'd have to check the boom-town impulses embedded both in our growth economy and our frontier DNA.
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A Portland Japanese Garden calls to mind the art of Andy Goldsworthy
Posted Thu, Nov 6, midnight
Our Zen gardener gets a nudge to visit the Portland Japanese Garden and finds five gardens in one.
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For Gregoire, all the highway news is bad news
Posted Fri, Sep 26, 1 p.m.
Two big unresolved transportation issues are back in the public's eye, reminding voters of the governor's biggest failure.
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After a late start, MSM blogs are everywhere
Posted Wed, Aug 13, 5 a.m.
The Northwest's mainstream newspapers are reporting political news on the Web first. Part 3 of 3
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Eat and walk your way through Northwest cities
Posted Wed, Aug 13, 5 a.m.
Our Whidbey Island correspondent shares her favorite way to explore the food and atmosphere of Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle.
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Blue, red, right, left: A blogroll for Northwest political junkies
Posted Tue, Aug 12, 5 a.m.
These are the partisan voices you might not know or have been afraid to try. Part 2 of 3
READ MORE 5 COMMENTSAll the rage
Posted Mon, Jul 28, 4 p.m.
What's to blame for all the anger as cyclists, drivers, and citizens fight over their rights on the streets? Is it $4 gas? Young punks? Class warfare? Poor urban design? It's time to theorize.
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A Portland festival for pianoheads
Posted Wed, Jul 23, 2 p.m.
This annual gathering of students and teachers is unique in America, and another example of Portland's distinctive musical culture.
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The founder of ArtsJournal talks about arts and new media
Posted Wed, Jul 16, 5 a.m.
Seattle journalist Douglas McLennan is a leading national figure in Web journalism. Here he talks about his venture, the imperiled state of newspaper arts coverage, and why Seattle and Portland orchestras are not much noticed across the nation.
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A design-savvy city defined
Posted Fri, Jul 11, 5 a.m.
A report lays out a road map, backed by polling that revealed surprising attitudes of Seattleites and Portlanders about their hometown architecture.
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The Rose City blooms while the Emerald City fades
Posted Mon, Jul 7, 5 a.m.
Portland and Seattle are among the top 10 "best-designed" urban areas, but Seattle ranks lower in part because of its record on historic preservation.
READ MORE 9 COMMENTSThe 'uncivilized' interview
Posted Wed, Jun 25, midnight
The art of the Q&A; is tricky, and TV pundits have often turned it into a public form of waterboarding. Bill O'Reilly runs his own little Guantanamo on Fox. NBC's Tim Russert, however, understood that intelligence could be gathered more humanely.
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What's wrong with this carbon footprint?
Posted Fri, May 30, midnight
It was, the Brookings Institution admitted, a flawed study. But it's the best data we have on the impact of urban areas on climate. This business of quantifying carbon emissions is as complicated as technological urban life itself.
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A great night of four West Coast dance companies
Posted Mon, May 19, 4 p.m.
Portland hosts troupes from Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and San Francisco, and the result is an extraordinary evening of dance.
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Steve Novick is the one to watch in Oregon politics
Posted Mon, May 19, 2 p.m.
The man with the "hard left hook" is a contender for the Democrat nomination to take on incumbent U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith. According to polls, the race is close, but Novick's indie appeal may win it for him.
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Memories of an intense Oregon primary, 1968
Posted Sat, May 17, midnight
A young cameraman watched the McCarthy-Kennedy contest close up, wrestling with his own issues in a time when "I was scared of my own country."
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Meet the dynamos who make Portland's art music snap and crackle
Posted Fri, May 9, 8 a.m.
Four who are scene-shifting classical musicians talk about why they came to Portland, and why "a big small town" can be a more promising place than bigger Seattle for an art-music revolution.
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Cellos rock in Portland
Posted Mon, Apr 21, 5 a.m.
The burgeoning indie music scene has spawned the Portland Cello Project. It's keeping cellists busy, playing classical and rock in non-traditional venues. The Rose City is now Celloland.
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Can eco-density be beautiful?
Posted Sat, Mar 29, 5 a.m.
Vancouver, B.C. wrestles with how to make new buildings and greater density produce better, less uniform architecture. It turns out nobody has a very clear image of what that would look like.
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The politics of beards
Posted Sat, Jan 3, 3 p.m.
Is Portland the "beardiest" city in America? Should Prince William shave his new whiskers? And what will the impact of a baby-faced Obama be on facial hair fashion?
MOREIs that dollars, Dale, or glass?
Posted Sat, Dec 13, 10:53 a.m. 2008
Chihuly and five other Seattle donors give the maximum ($50,000) to the Obama inaugural committee.
MORESagging sports
Posted Tue, Oct 14, 10:15 a.m. 2008
Maybe Seattle's decision to send the Sonics to another city was smart economic forecasting?
MORESaving old Oregon
Posted Wed, Oct 15, 6 a.m. 2008
Restoring ancient habitat in the Willamette Valley.
MORESausage Links, pork barrel edition
Posted Fri, Oct 3, 5:29 p.m. 2008
What's the most important news of the day? It's not the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill. It's not the pundits' reactions to last night's vice-presidential debate. No. The most important news item of the day is that Saturday, Oct. 4, is the last day to register to vote. So if you haven't already, do it. ...
MORESausage Links, budget deficit edition
Posted Mon, Sep 22, 1:38 p.m. 2008
David Goldstein at Horse's Ass wrote over the weekend – post gubernatorial debate – that "there is no state budget deficit," prompting me to wonder what the hell he was talking about. I thought, "Did I miss something?" As Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire said in Saturday's gubernatorial debate, the state is currently generating a surplus. But it has been widely reported – even by Horse's Ass blogger Josh Feit – that the state faces a projected $3.2 billion deficit in the coming years. Gregoire even told The Seattle Times on Friday that she expects a deficit next year. So what gives? The folks at Washington Policy Center Blog put it another way:
MORESausage Links, Caddyshack edition
Posted Wed, Sep 10, 1:16 p.m. 2008
The Oregonian reports that a popular driving range in Oregon is asking golfers to cast their "swing votes" by aiming practice shots at 8-feet-tall metal likenesses of John McCain and Barack Obama. While no one is exactly sure whether people are trying to hit candidates they support or oppose, so far, McCain is in the lead. ...
MORESausage Links, Postman stops ringing edition
Posted Fri, Sep 5, 1 p.m. 2008
It's a sad day for state journalism. Seattle Times chief political reporter David Postman, the author of the ever-popular Postman on Politics, announced today that after some 14 years at the paper, he will leave to join Vulcan Inc., a company founded and run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Capitol press corps appears to be devastated. I sure am. ...
MOREDid Howard Schultz pull the last plug for the Sonics?
Posted Wed, Sep 3, 4:23 a.m. 2008
Last week, Howard Schultz threw in the legal towel on his lawsuit trying to recover the Sonics from Oklahoma City. Thanks, Howard. Had he capitulated earlier, when the City was working out its deal with the Oklahoma City purchasers, there would have been leverage, maybe earning a firmer pledge from the NBA about a future expansion. This way, Schultz and Seattle got nothing in return for dropping the suit.
MOREMiller times
Posted Mon, Sep 1, 12:13 p.m. 2008
Between national party conventions, I took an advance look at Joseph Miller's upcoming memoirs, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, to be published next month by University of Washington Press. The book provides an almost too-candid portrayal of politics and lobbying in the Northwest and nationally over 50 years and is an intriguing chronicle of some of the main figures in Northwest political life.
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