What can Portland teach New Orleans? And what might the Big Easy pass on to the Rose City? According to a guest article in the Oregonian, plenty.
Chris Beck, a former Realtor and Oregon state representative, now a post-Katrina urban-rebuilding consultant, has spent much of the past year in New Orleans as the rebuilding process inches ahead. It's not surprising that Portland's strengths – healthy development, involved citizenry – would be traits Beck would like to see exported to New Orleans.
After 68 years, the nation's first racially integrated public housing community faces enormous change. So what will happen to the people who live there?
Here's a picture of the South Lake Union Trolley (SLUT) – excuse us, the Seattle Streetcar – navigating Westlake Avenue near Westlake Center today. As you can see, it's already getting crowded out there, and evidently these trains aren't the least bit intimidating. This is looking north, at the back of the train, and the car has just entered the curb lane to make a right turn alongside the streetcar.
The Sound Off is still burning up at the P-I Web site over the "Impeachment: If Not Now, When?" op-ed piece that ran at the top of the site's homepage over the weekend.
The life cycle of Columbia River salmon might be endangered, but not so the cycle of litigation over how to save the fish. The feds so far have refused to consider breaching dams in the vast river system, while federal judges are rejecting as insufficient all other measures to help fish pass through. We seem to be years from resolution.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi is starting to pay the price for his late entry into the 2008 race: Gov. Chris Gregoire has been able to broom up early big-business support, including donors who were with Rossi in the 2004 race. The Seattle Times has a good early roundup.
Among those defecting are Colin Moseley, former chair of the Washington Roundtable (leading state CEOs), Phil Bussey, former Roundtable president and Puget Sound Energy executive, and Cheri Marusa, Cle Elum small business owner recently recruited to Gregoire's new group, the Governor's Eastern Washington Advisory Council.
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