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GREATEST PLACES IN THE WORLD: PORTLAND, ORE?

July 14, 2022 by

Greatest places? In the world? Portland? Ore? The civic booster in me recoils at calling a city one of the greatest ‘places’ in the world, then having it echoed by the newspaper of record, the Oregonian. It’s got to help public relations, but Time Magazine didn’t help with their image of Portland. Neither did the […]

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CITY TRASH FROM PORTLAND TO VANCOUVER

March 31, 2021 by

City trash comes with the territory. More people, more garbage, more clean up. Except the clean up part is lacking, and it’s not the first time. Take New York City trash for example. More people than Portland, which is bigger than Staten Island, but half the size of the other Burroughs. I moved to the […]

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420 TWITTER FEED

April 20, 2015 by

Straight Dope On High Holiday From Twitter Feed. Any marketer will explain Twitter as a bet on the odds. With so many Twitter members you’ll find an audience waiting. What if you’re not selling anything, just joining and creating a twitter feed to be a part of it all? Baby boomers might join to stay […]

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OREGONIAN OF RECORD

April 14, 2015 by

When News Leads, The Oregonian Gets There First. Before the internet we watched television news. Walter Cronkite explained how it was before signing off each night with, “And that’s the way it is.” Baby boomers got used to watching the non-telegenic Cronkite’s newscast. No need for a pretty boy like Brian Williams giving the news […]

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A PORTLAND GEM

September 29, 2014 by

The following post found it’s way into The Oregonian’s opinion section as an op-ed. I’ve traded emails with the Portland man who stood tall, then grew even taller and the newspaper editor who plucked this piece from his 100’s of submissions each day. What’s it feel like opening the Sunday Oregonian and finding your work […]

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THE TEAM NEEDS YOU, YOU NEED THE TEAM

August 27, 2014 by

A Follow Up On The Lake O Football Suspensions. The knock on baby boomer parents is we coddled our kids. We sent them to ‘time out’ instead of whipping a belt through our belt loops and giving a kid five lashes. Even if we whipped our kids, it wouldn’t have been enough. After the beat […]

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INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES

June 14, 2013 by

A short list of things done and things to do. From Mark Palmer, InterMat Senior Writer. From uphillwriting.org. From bettersmarterricher.com. From oregnsportsnews.com. From gemellipress.com. From the Oregonian about the Oregon Historical Society. From the Oregonian about Occupy Portland. From the Oregonian about life saving. From the Oregonian about manners. From Portland Tribune about end of […]

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THE NEW BOSS

March 13, 2013 by

TRAIL BLAZERS’ CHRIS MCGOWAN REDIFINES PORTLAND FOR YOU Remember your first day in Portland? If you didn’t live here you probably came for an event like the Rose Festival Parade. Or a concert. Or a Blazer game. You parked your car where it wouldn’t get stolen or keyed. After the event you drove home from the […]

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