Month: August 2010

  • Digging Deeper in the CRC IRP Report

    Most of the local press coverage tends to present the Independent Review Panel report on the Columbia River Crossing as an “endorsement” or “approval” of the project. While there is no question that IPR concurs that a project is necessary, the report is actually fairly critical, not the rubber stamp that many of skeptics feared.…

  • CRC Project Sponsors Council Ready to Slip its Leash?

    August 9th is the last scheduled meeting of the Columbia River Crossing project “Sponsors Council”, the group of local elected and agency officials that has been about the only check on this project. In the view of the project, the Council has served its purpose and is finished. Indeed, I’m told the project has gone…

  • Coming Up on the KBOO Bike Show: Racing and Differently Abled Cyclists

    This month host Tori Bortman visits the first half hour with Kenji Sugahara, Director of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) and Lindsay Kandra, Portland Coordinator for the OBRA High School Cyclocross Program to talk about this exciting piolot program and how it plans to make Oregon’s young adults happier, healthier and more muddy. In…