It took three months, $439, and a complaint to the city ombudsman, but last week Portland City Hall finally coughed up some documents that I had asked to see in a public records request. The key word being “some,” because not everything I wanted has been delivered, there are some heavy redactions in what they
Good news! Lownsdale Square, which has been missing its elk statue since the black bloc-heads trashed it several years ago, is finally about to have that void filled. And the new installation promises a slice of classic Portland. That Oregon Life has the details, here.
I see that the “immigration” Gestapo is looking to rent office space in Portland and Roseburg. I don’t know about Roseburg, which will probably roll out the red carpet, but I do know about Portland. I remember 2011, when Sam Adams and Randy Leonard were ramming the ICE jail into the scandalously inappropriate South
It’s Aretha’s Birthday. So rock steady, baby.
Here’s a wild one out of D.C.: Joe Kent is quitting his MAGA spook job, supposedly because he’s opposed to the Iran War. I’m not sure I believe the reasoning, but more importantly, does this mean Clark County gets him back? Will he run for Congress again? He’ll certainly get the Bronx cheer from Dear
Where I teach, we have closed-captioning systems in the lecture halls. Whoever’s speaking has their words flashed on a big screen. Usually I just forget it’s there. Sometimes when I’m in the audience in one of those rooms, I find it helpful to my elderly ears.Last night, when my class was over and everyone else
Today I learned that Bob Weinstein, the guy who got kicked off the Portland police review commission for refusing to sign an overbroad secrecy agreement, has a Substack site. And yesterday he put up a post there calling out the outrageous rudeness of the punks on the far-left wing of the City Council book
After decades of dealing with Comcast, I’ve finally had enough. We use them here at Blog Central for TV, the internet, and a landline. Every year, like clockwork, the bill goes up, with no advance warning, and I have to spend an hour on the phone with someone in a third-world country to get it
