I got a call at home in Portland Monday morning, and the number on my Caller ID started with 603, which is the area code for New Hampshire, that quirky New England state where I lived more than 20...
I could tell you about the condominium building that allows two dogs per unit, a rule neatly circumvented by a guy who walks his four pit bulls one pair at a time, denying...
Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or...
The traditional running-of-the-shoppers that takes place each December continues, but in Portland's retail arenas, the atmosphere is quieter than, say, downtown Seattle. One might assume this is due...
Without getting bogged down in marital details or my own spiritual evolution, let's just say that I have experienced, first-hand, pretty much any holiday observance you could take up in the month of...
Sometimes local government looks just like a big ol' dog chasing its tail. In Oregon's Multnomah County, where Portland is located, our dog often also manages to get hopelessly lost while running in...
Seems that some mysterious force has decided to override Oregon's wacky kicker tax that returns money to residents in flush years instead of saving it for statewide needs.