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Category Archives: Northeast

PDXppl: Chris Stevens on the “Oregon Stag” Shirt

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and area residents and what they do.
In any city, flashy marketing tends to take off more than in other localities. Take the “I ♥ NY” shirt or any sports team products as prime examples. Here in Oregon, we’ve come across one such example of a product as [...]

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PDXpoesy: Marshall McFarland, A City’s Eyes

Thursday, July 23, 2009

When I started the PDXpoesy of PDXme, I didn’t how I would approach posting other people’s poetry. How would I introduce it? What would be its subject matter? I would think Portland. But no less, a good friend of mine here at the University of Oregon, and a graduate of Lincoln High School, Marshall McFarland, [...]

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Corralling the Community Energy of Bike Corrals

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I recently saw a post over at Bike Portland regarding a recently-installed “bike corral.” Bike corrals are a series of bike racks aligned in a row, in spaces usually reserved for parking cars. With the bike scene taking the city and its on-street parking by storm, the locations of these corrals are appearing across Portland. [...]

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The Infamous “Fareless Square”

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Who knew? Fareless Square, a peculiarly shaped square that includes much of downtown and NE Portland, isn’t free! The square is currently undergoing review by TriMet, Portland’s regional transportation authority. Inside the square, fare for busses, the MAX and the streetcar is free. The square was created in 1975 to stem the effects of traffic and pollution and now [...]

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Portland: Trailblazing no matter how slow-coming

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

No, I’m not talking about the Blazers completing the longest winning streak in the history of the NBA (after a team received the number one draft pick). Au contraire, an urban renewal project of monumental impact has been stewing in the minds of neighborhood activists and planners for over a decade. The capital improvement project, known [...]

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