After nearly a decade of planning and frequent political and financial obstacles, the Oregon Department of Transportation ...

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Listen, dude, we don't care what they had you doing, obviously we've all got a whole "under new management" thing going on here and we recognize the value you can bring to the project. No one's saying ...

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Why is it that everytime I sit down on an empty bus (or close to empty bus) someone gets on and sits directly in front of me? Not just the seats in front of me and off to the side. I mean directly ...

The other day during a conversation with a friend, I think we stumbled upon what it is we are all trying to do. The phrased used was, "I feel like I'm trying to put my parents through pre-school." Yup ...

For years, advocates have been dreaming about redeveloping the underused bowl beach at the south end of Tom McCall Waterfront Park, turning it into a world-class space for recreation and culture ...

Faint recollections come back to me of the '80's and the wave of right-wing Latin American governments "disappearing" leftists, unionists, priests, etc.—most typically disappeared for good....Now the ...

They call it the Cool Zone. Nation-state concerns become community concerns real fast when that nation fails. Complex systems don’t stop all at once, but the ground is shifting under our feet. I’m ...

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