Dave Knows: Portland

An article in The Sunday Oregonian explores Portland’s plans for future streetcar lines. “City leaders” want to expand the streetcar network throughout the city.
A streetcar could generate business and political momentum for clusters of midrise housing and commercial centers that could spread the walkable feel of popular urban neighborhoods.
I understand it’s politically expedient [...]

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The Timbers offense impressed last night at PGE Park. It was a pleasant surprise after a long season of stalwart defensive play but anemic offense.
Assisted by Roger Levesque, Bryan Jordan started things off in the 19th minute, and then just as the brand new giant flag in section 107 was lowered back to the [...]

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*If you are over 21.
From the Oregon Bus Project:
The Oregon Bus Project and the Portland Mercury team up again Tuesday, October 30th to offer you an evening of rousing debate about the OLCC. This debate is the fifth in the monthly Debate Club series held at rontoms on 600 E. Burnside (this month’s at 8pm).
The [...]

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The weather couldn’t be better for the post-season exhibition match between the Portland Timbers and Toronto FC tonight at PGE Park.
But on this unseasonably warm day one member of the Timbers may receive a cold welcome from the fans. Gavin Wilkinson has filled some post season holes in the roster with three guest players: [...]

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Transit Maps of the World, due to be released next Tuesday, is already available and stashed at the Quimby warehouse according to Powells (no sign of it yet at the library).
Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth.
If it’s comprehensive, [...]

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According to this report on the National Lacrosse League website the league has reached a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Professional Lacrosse Player’s Association.
The agreement also means that professional indoor lacrosse will be played in 2008. When a new CBA had not reached by the league’s deadline last week, the 2008 season was canceled. [...]

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Update: roster rumor confirmed here.
A little birdie told me that due to injuries to several Timbers players, Gavin has recruited the services of a few of our favorite neighbors to the North to fill the Timbers ranks for Sunday’s 5pm match against Toronto FC at PGE Park.
In particular Kenji Treschuk and the man we love [...]

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Editor and Publisher reports that Scarborough Research has determined that Austin, Texas is number one and Portland is number two in percentage of adults that are bloggers.
Fifteen percent of adults in Austin are bloggers, and they are 78 percent more likely than the national average to be in this consumer group. Fourteen percent of Portland [...]

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Yesterday I described a few of my favorite Oregonlive.com blogs written by Oregonian and Oregonlive writers. Most of the blogs on Oregonlive, however, are written by volunteer bloggers who had a particular interest, applied to be a blogger, and were given a blog. And some of them are the most entertaining.
Neighborhood blogs:
Oregonlive hosts [...]

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We all know the Oregonlive.com website is far from the best; the site navigation is impenetrable, many articles from the paper don’t seem to make it to the online version, and many of those that do make it are missing paragraphs or have wonky formatting.
But when it comes to blogs, Oregonlive does many things [...]

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