I see they’re once again talking about getting rid of Standard Time. The change is halfway through Congress. Fine with us night owls, but hardly anybody’s talking about the fact that this was tried once before in the United States, and it failed.(Here goes Grandpa again. “Some of us are old enough to remember…”)It was
I’m slow on the uptake sometimes, but I just caught wind of a fellow named Max Steele, who’s aparently been writing about Portland city government, among other things, on Substack for a while now. He and I see some things the same way, it appears. Not everything, but some things.What caught my attention is his
The men’s singles side of the Wimbledon tennis tournament played out just like you would have thought at the outset of the tourney: Jannik Sinner of Italy (the 1 seed) defeated Sascha Zverev of Germany (the 2 seed) in the finals. It took four sets, but Sinner’s serve was never broken. This is his
I see that Serena Cruz is running to get back on the Multnomah County Commission, from my district no less. She was term-limited out of that office many years ago after her stint as one of the Mean Girls (ugh), and since then she served as the county’s chief operating officer under Deadly Deborah
The women’s singles final at Wimbledon was a classic. Two young Czech players duked it out, and the more youthful one won. Linda Noskova defeated Karolina Muchova in three sets. -Ova over -ova, as it were.Under a hot late afternoon sun, Noskova came out firing, taking a near-perfect first set 6-2 before a celebrity-studded packed
Arthur Fery upon winning his quarterfinal match.If I ever get rich and am still fit to travel, I want to spend a year trotting the globe to watch professional tennis. At a minimum, I’d see all four major outdoor tournaments: Australia in January, Paris around Memorial Day, London around Fourth of July, and New York
I had to chuckle when I read this one: Mitch Green, one of the socialistas in the Portand City Council Book Club, has lost two union endorsements in his re-election bid becase he opposes spending city money to renovate the Moda Center arena at the behest of the billionaire owner of the Trail Blazers. He
Portland is abuzz today with the news that our fearless new city manager, Raymond Lee, is going to buck local environmentalists, and probably most of the City Council, to join Portland General Electric in pushing for new transmission lines through Forest Park, at the expense of hundreds of trees.Lee signed an agreement last week
The kids at the Merc are like troubled grandchildren to me, and the guy who runs that place is like their weird old friend from the schoolyard. But doggone it, every once in a while they crank out some decent journalism over there. Case in point: Last week (unfortunately just in time to get lost
I’ve lived in Oregon for two thirds of my life now, and I’ve seen and heard a lot of things here that leave you shaking your head. Probably the most outrageous of these was the 1989 murder of Michael Francke, the young head of the corrections department, who had discovered corruption and was about to