News that Oregon Health & Science University is looking to lay off up to 300 of its 12,000 employees has Portlanders either aghast, steaming – or, in the case of one legal-eagle blogger, both.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but most urban coffee shops have doors that are relatively easy to open when exiting with full hands. Most of the time they have some kind of push-bar thing you activate...
Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got rid of all the pointy instruments inside cars and nagged automakers into adding seatbelts. (Mom sold the Corvair.). Next, cops got huffy if you had one little beer...
Nah, Howard, your Starbucks isn't a "victim" of its success, it's just feeling the downside of inevitable maturity. America's bad-boy, break-out, Maxwell-House-whuppin' coffee is – middle aged. That's...
When in Seattle, I peruse Real Change; in Portland I keep up with Street Roots. Both newspapers, of course, are by and for homeless folks, and they regularly serve up readable news not found elsewhere...
Let's say you run a business and your front door opens 310,000 times a day to let customers inside. Many are regulars, going in and out a few times daily. They are mostly strangers to each other, and...
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Portlanders are dying to drop their drawers for a cause. Well, not exactly a cause. OK, not a cause at all. But perhaps a case can be made that the "No-Pants on Max"...
The turf war is escalating in Oregon's Multnomah County between Sheriff Bernie Giusto, accused of big-time mismanagement and some hinky morals, and County Chairman Ted Wheeler, who aims to take over...
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...
