Stories for Oct. 10, 2007

Painting or just paint? Portland continues its graffiti debate

Wed, Oct 10, 7 a.m.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

Some defend it as street art, but there's still plenty of resistance to tagging, even in funky Portland, where painters and businesses have an occasion to face off.

Calculating the carbon cost of more lanes of freeway

Wed, Oct 10, 5 a.m.

By Clark Williams-Derry

Environmentalists like those of the Sierra Club aren't happy about the pavement portion of Proposition 1, the $17 billion roads-and-transit measure on the November ballot. So in terms of the carbon footprint, how bad is it?