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TriMet Seeks Input on Web Site Design
From an e-mail blast from TriMet: We want your opinion! TriMet, Metro and the City of Portland are building a new website to provide the public with timely information about the Portland Mall Light Rail construction project beginning in January 2007. Please help us make the site as useful as possible by taking this brief…
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Rediscovering the Commons
Last week I wrote about poor behavior in our common spaces, linking to a particularly nasty experience one reader had on transit. Here’s the flip side. Over at the Daily Score Alan Durning is writing about rediscovering positive interactions (and some negative ones) in the commons, after getting out of his “car-coon”. I can vouch…
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Phil Knight’s Obsession with the Suburban Campus
One of the cool things about settling in NW Portland is that I could tell friends and family back east that I was living a few blocks from the Will Vinton Studios, home of “Claymation” and the California Raisins. Phil Knight became an investor, and ultimately owner of the studios, changing the name to Laika,…