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Make sure you are wearing green tomorrow as you head out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Portland style. The Oregonian has some great ideas on ways to enjoy your favorite green beer drinking holiday.
Speaking of beer, many Portlanders seem to have a love-hate relationship with our local McMenamins brew pub chain. Some find the beer [read more]
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The Portland Trail Blazers are on a two-game winning streak and the word playoffs is being mumbled by some. Catch them in action at their next home game tonight at 7pm against the Memphis Grizzlies.
200 parking spaces have opened up in downtown Portland.
Skiers take note - 50-70 inches of new snow could be on Mt. [read more]
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Portland looks to have made it into the top slots in two more national lists. We placed ninth in fittest cities in America, according to Men’s Fitness magazine. We also ranked ninth in top cities for independent filmmakers, according to MovieMaker Magazine.
Construction on the new IKEA near the airport seems to be coming along nicely, [read more]
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Here’s a round up of recent interesting regional stories as January here in the Rose City comes to an end:
Former president Bill Clinton will be coming to town April 17 to talk at the World Affairs Council of Oregon’s 2007 International Speaker Series.
Plans for a Portland emergency evacuation plan are in the works in case [read more]
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The public transportation in Portland is so good, they’re talking about it in the UK!
If you thought political cross-dressing was a recent British phenomenon, you obviously haven’t been to Portland.
In Oregon they were ‘cross dressing’ as far back as the 1970’s when the Republican Governor, Tom McCall, took radical steps to prioritise public transport over [read more]
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Portland International Airport said on March 5 it expected to have served its 300 millionth passenger since beginning operations 66 years ago. PDX also apparently set an all-time record of more than 14 million passengers served in 2006.
The Portland Saturday Market, now in its 33rd year, is once again open for business.
A new book titled [read more]
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The Portland Jazz Festival starts today and runs through Feb. 25.
A couple got married on the Portland Tram on Valentine’s Day, marking the first time this has happened.
A office building going up in downtown Portland will be offering 933 square feet of indoor storage for 34 bikes, showers and lockers.
The Ace Hotel, a hip but [read more]
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It seems as if tourism for 2006 in Portland kicked up from previous years, according to this article from the Portland Business Journal. Visitor spending was up some 7.2 percent over 2005, room occupancies increased on average 3.4 percent from 2005 and travel related tax revenue for the city was u [read more]
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Can you identify the woodpecker species at right? If so you are a prime person for pointing out sightings of more select local animals to Metro. This feature is just one of many on a new site launched by our regional government. REIN (Regional Environmental Information Network) is being billed as a “regional clearinghouse for restoration, [read more]
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So fantastic. What a great use of our limited law enforcement…
ALOHA, Oregon (AP) — A woman who called 911 to get “the cutest cop I’ve seen” sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.
The same sheriff’s deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system.
911 call [read more]
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