Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | yesterday
The crosswalk at SE 80th and Foster is marked with white lines and a "pedestrian refuge island" in the middle of the street, and it's where cars have hit three young Portland pedestrians in the last week. Lindsay Leonard, 23 was killed there when a car struck her last Sunday, November 1, her friend Jessica Finlay, remains in critical condition from the crash. Only days later, a car struck...
Beer in Baltimore (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC Story here: A blackened bottle of beer found in the wreck of the Hindenburg zeppelin is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at auction. The bottle was found by a fire-fighter cleaning up the American airfield where the German airship exploded in 1937. The bottle will be the most expensive ever bought if it meets its estimated price of £5,000 ($8,337) on Saturday. The airship was engulfed...
BikePortland.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mayor Sam Adams.(Photo © J. Maus) As we hinted at yesterday, Mayor Adams has released a statement in response the fatal collision on SE Foster last week. Adams was expected to share plans for “immediate changes” to a crossing of SE Foster that was the site of two collisions last week (one woman died and another remains [...]
Militant Ginger (Free subscription) | yesterday
There were countless reasons to be skeptical of Disney's A Christmas Carol. Firstly, it was another conventional take on Dicken's 'classic' (i.e. ridiculously overplayed) Christmas tale - and the world needs a new 'Christmas Carol' movie about as much as it needs another ice-age! There are already no less than 26 'faithful' movie adaptations of A Christmas Carol and countless spoofs and imitations...
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | yesterday
You’re reading a blog written by a former chunker. In high school I almost touched 1/8 of a ton (that’s 250 lbs for the mathematically challenged). I lost quite a bit of this weight due to motivation but I will never have a six-pack, unless you count Sam Adams. Losing weight is expensive, not that [...] Related posts: Barter: Your Economy Depends On It Weakend: Ode to Peanut Butter And...
BikePortland.org (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A woman crossing SE Foster at 80th. (Still taken from Oregonian video – watch it below). Responding to a week where several Portlanders were injured and one woman was killed while walking across SE Foster Blvd, Portland Mayor Sam Adams visited the site this morning. His visit comes on the eve of an awareness action [...]
The Ormskirk Baron (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Saw the new Makro Mail today, they have some interesting ale offers on starting on Wednesday 18th November running until the 1st December. The offers are: Buy any two 8-bottles packs for £18.98 working out at £1.19 per bottle. Choose from: Brakspear Oxford Gold [baron rating 3/5] Badger Golden Champion [baron rating 3/5] Badger First Gold [baron rating 3/5] Badger Fursty Ferret [baron rating...
ALBANYS INSANITY (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is [...]
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Mayor Sam Adams' last day in Japan focuses on energy and design, with the goal of shaping innovative opportunities for the city and building Portland's design portfolio.
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Portland Bureau of Transportation will create a new bicycle boulevard in Sellwood, on S.E. Spokane Street, as the initial piece of a 15-mile project identified by Mayor Sam Adams in his First 100 Days agenda.
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sam Adams's mug runneth over.
I *Heart* Celtics.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Fall is a great time of year for me. The leaves magically change color and cover my disgraceful lawn like a beautiful quilt. The money portion of the Sam Adams seasonal line-up (Octoberfest and Winter Lager) is due in at all fine beer-hawking establishments nation-wide. I get to hide my video-game-sculpted body and receding hair-line with knit hats and layers of female-repelling t-shirts I only wear...
Beer in Baltimore (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Here's a question for all you readers: What do you consider the most "extreme"--oh, sorry, "EX-TRE-E-E-E-E-ME!!!!!!!!!!!!"--beer you can find in this region, or that I would have a prayer of finding or getting someone to bring/send me? For this discussion, I am narrowing "extreme" to three categories: 1) High-Alcohol . The highest alcohol content without distillation or...
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mayor Sam Adams and PDC went on an electric vehicle (EV) offensive today with Portland State University President Wim Wiewel and PGE's Economic Development Director, Charlie Allcock. All three met with leading EV manufacturers to secure Portland's position as the top choice in the United States for EV launch sites and long-term development.
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The second recall effort has asked for an estimate to gather signatures from the same right-wing firm that used convicted sex offenders to gather signatures for 14 conservative initiatives this summer. RECALL 2: SO LONG, GRASSROOTS, HELLO, ASTROTURF! "We were contacted by somebody representing themselves as from the second recall campaign," says Ross Day, with Voice of the Electorate (VOTE),...
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