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What Change Brings

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Pioneer Courthouse Square is my favorite place to meet someone. It’s also the best place to attend a public event, as we saw last Thursday. It’s got a long name, no doubt, but I find I have taken to shortening its name to “the Square” more than once. The space is often marketed as “Portland’s [...]

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PDXppl: Diana Banning, Portland’s Archivist

Friday, July 17, 2009

1937 intersection at SE Powell Blvd. & 39th Avenue looking north, one of the many street scenes in the Archives’ collections. Photo courtesy of Portland City Archives A2005-001.517 PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of [...]

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TriMet: a public agency with no elected officials

Friday, June 26, 2009

In light of the stark definition in the title of this post, I do not intend to criticize TriMet for not having elected officials in its ranks. I realized this fact after reading a post today over at Portland Transport today. Fred Hansen is not elected, this is true. But I question whether a publicly [...]

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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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Pioneer Bricks

Sunday, June 14, 2009

For those who go shopping at Pioneer Place, you know about the bricks. These bricks are witty sayings and expressions that are supposed to make you stop. I love them. I think they add character to the monotony of brick that now seems to grace every conceivable surface on the new transit mall. These bricks, however, [...]

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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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