Former President Bill Clinton will be visiting Astoria on Monday to campaign for wife Hillary. The event starts at 9:30am at the Maritime Museum and ends at 11am. Former President Bill Clinton will be visiting Astoria on Monday to campaign for wife Hillary. The event starts at 9:30am at the Maritime Museum and ends at 11am. People wanting to attend are encouraged to sign-up at Hillaryclinton.com...

John McCain will be campaigning in Portland tomorrow, and Jeff Mapes at the Oregonian examines the money behind McCain's pricey fundraising reception tomorrow: When Republican Sen. John McCain is in Portland campaigning Monday, he'll hold quite a complex fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel out at the airport. If you're willing to fork over $1,000 you can go to a reception. But for $33,100 you can...

A reader writes: So I'm walking with my boy in his stroller about an hour ago in South Waterfront. (I know how you feel about the place, but they do seem to be trying to do a good job creating a dense new neighborhood from scratch. But...) So I get to talking with a security guard and he points out the building closest to the river, one of the tall glass towers. "See anything odd about...

Karin Hansen, according to The Oregonian, has been outed as a blogger by Commissioner Randy Leonard. Yes, she's Mayor Tom Potter's wife and she writes Karin's Post. In a recent post she accused some on the Portland City Council of "character assassination" regarding her husband and "Do-nothing Portland City Council of Mean White Boys." She even accuses them of being "evil-doers." She thought...

Last night, Saturday, May 10, the Obama campaign organized a "House Party" in Corvallis, hosted by the Boomer's (not the generation tag name but the family). Corvallistidbits was fortunate to be able to attend the event. The Corvallis "House Party" was but one of dozens of "House Party's" held last evening State wide in Oregon. Attendees were truly representative of all generations, both men and...

The following, about Bill Clinton's return to Oregon was just received. Hi everyone, Updated schedule for President Bill Clinton in Oregon today and tomorrow. Please note that this schedule has not been advised to press. It's ok to spread the word, as the sites and times are final - but please do not pass along to media. I feel so conflicted. Apparently I'm to share this info with you, but...

Amidst all this, I came within an inch of being hit by the streetcar. I was walking along and all of a sudden, there was a train brushing against my back, going at least 15 MPH. I never heard it coming. To see a video of the one armed multi-instrumentalist, click here. Free Hit...

Oregon Events Reflect Candidates' Campaigns"Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton held campaign events Friday in Oregon, one of six states left to hold Democratic presidential nominating contests. The two events couldn't have been more different. Clinton's event was in an outdoor courtyard at a children's hospital. It was gray and dreary, and temperatures were in the 40s. She was an hour late, and the...

Well, Vincent, Katy and I tried to get press access to the Obama rally yesterday. We didn't have press passes, but that didn't seem to be a problem last time. Unfortunately, some irate Obama staffer told us that having our names in the masthead of the magazine wasn't good enough. So much for the audacity of hope. Vincent and I decided we didn't really want to see Obama anyways, especially if he...

Today was the St. Johns parade. Our local neighborhood parade, but it's a long-time North Portland tradition. The chess club team marches, there are a few bands, little league teams and many candidates running for positions. Of course the mayor, fire chief, etc. It's one of my favorite North Portland activities because it's definitely a slice of life. Scary and delightful all in one. And so I...

Good legal news for those who love the naturalness of Oregon, rather than unneeded subdivisions on prime farm and forest land. Last Thursday the state Supreme Court ruled on the Corey case. The decision affirmed that Measure 49, voted in last November by a wide margin, trumps Measure 37 – which Measure 49 fixed. Oregonians in Action, plus others who favor the rights of a few Measure 37...

I have tickets to the new musical play "Spin" for tonight's performance at Oregon State University Campus Theatre. This play was written by Mr. John Frohnmayer, (Independent) who is now running for U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Mr. Gordon Smith, Republican from Eastern Oregon. John's brother Dave Frohnmayer, is President Of University of Oregon in Eugene, and ran for Governor about 15...

This will be interesting (from an Oregon AFL-CIO press release on Friday): The Oregon AFL-CIO has extended an invitation to Senator John McCain to meet with Oregon working families for a round-table discussion on health care Monday evening, May 12 prior to McCain's scheduled $31 thousand-per-couple Portland fundraiser. As of Friday, the McCain campaign had not responded to the invitation, but...

Published May 8, 2008 U.S. Senator — Steve Novick (D) Change is the theme for this year's election, but the question for the Democratic Senate primary isn't just who can create change, but who can beat incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon Smith in November? Outsider candidate Steve Novick is EW's pick as a guy who can do both. Novick is strong on the environment and healthcare, strongly...

TRANSCRIPT (May 9th, 2008, Hour 3 of the KPOJ Morning Show) Thom Hartmann: Ben in Aloha, nice to welcome you to the show, Ben. Ben in Aloha: Hey, thank you guys, I would really like to thank that lady for keeping the faith out there. And I would also like to mention Steve Novick's campaign. I'm 70 years old and I think that Steve is the best chance that we have to move Oregon forward in the Senate...

If not, click here and it will take you to the official IRS site that will give you an idea of when it should be arriving. Our local TV station, KATU, has this on their Hot Links site. Also, did you leave out food for your mail carrier today? If not, do what I did. Donate to your local Food Bank. For my fellow Oregonians, that would be the Oregon Food Bank....

I have been scratching my head a little bit about Chelsea Clinton. She seems to be part Clinton surrogote (like Bill Clinton), part someone just kind of untethered doing her own thing for her own reasons (Kind of like Jeremiah Wright). Now, Bill Clinton has taken to traveling mainly to "Bubba Country". It was an odd tactical move and part of Hillary Clinton's tactical choice of transforming into...

I found the below funnies at this link. I found myself chuckling out loud at several of these! Some clever folks thought these up. These are 10 commonly asked questions of lesbians and the answers you’ll rarely hear: 1. What exactly, do two women do together? (Usually asked by a woman) A. "It takes too long to explain. A lesbian quickie lasts hours. We lay there and discuss politics...

The above photos were taken by someone just behind me in line. They even held my spot in line for me, when I had to return to my car to leave my water bottle and almost everything else inside it, because of security inside the building. I had not even guessed they would allow cameras inside. Dumb of me. So, I also asked these folks if they would e-mail me some of the photos they took...

The Avenue Lofts 1417 NW Hoyt Street The Avenue Lofts are named for the cobblestone street that extends into the building as stone corridor. Built in 1923 as the Meier & Frank Warehouse and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, each loft owner is given a historic tax benefit which allows for more autonomy and versatility. Some of the lofts have 18-foot tall windows and 26-foot...

At twenty-two, I was not ready to be the mother of a twelve-year-old. How could I possibly discipline a child more than half my own age? His younger brother was ten. Two kids. A mother. At twenty-two. Um, yeah, as the saying goes, "it was a time in my life..." We met on the dance floor. I'd seen a motorcycle in the parking lot, and once I walked into the dance hall, I...

Why Wall Street, Israel and D.C. need the illegal drug trade "Contributing Editor Catherine Austin Fitts, who was a Managing Director at Dillon Read before becoming Assistant Secretary of Housing under George Bush and who holds an MBA from Wharton makes things very simple. She points out that the four largest states for the importation of drugs are New York, Florida, Texas and California. She...

From the Corvallis Gazette-Times online, we have a reporter (Matt Neznanski) asking, gasp, real questions about real issues! Just after Barack Obama’s campaign stop in Albany Friday, Gazette-Times reporter Matt Neznanski had five minutes to ask questions one-on-one of the candidate. Here is a transcription of that conversation. Gazette-Times: You talked today about renewable energy....

Undergrad pastoral at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where Barack Obama will be holding a rally later on this evening. Here's Joseph Links, 21, a sophomore studying journalism, relaxing in the grass on the university qaudrangle: I told him about my experiences talking to Hillary Clinton supporters in Jackson County yesterday?the concern about the flag pin, the pastor, the secret Muslim...

Thanks much to everyone who sent in questions for my 5 minutes with Barack Obama on Friday. I think I was able to synthesize most of what you suggested into the short time available. Here's what I asked: You talked today about renewable energy. Oregon and western states use hydroelectric power a lot. It?s clean, it?s renewable, but we see that there are problems that come with it in the collapse...

Suffering fools in my house: Her: Would you like some rhubarb fool? Him: Did you mean "do you want some rhubarb, fool?" or "do you want some rhubarb fool?" Her: Both. Him: I pity the rhubarb fool who rejects this hypothesis. For the 0.31416% of my readers who understand this is a statistics joke, made "popular" by...

UPDATED BELOW Portland progressive radio station and Air America outlet KPOJ has been missing a host from its local 6-9 morning show, which featured Heidi Tauber, comic Carl Wolfson and national Air America personality Thom Hartmann (who joins the team at 8 a.m.). Co-host and newsperson Tauber is conspicuously absent from the morning show. I say conspicuously absent because the other on-air...

Last night was a looonnnggg night. My dad wouldn't go to sleep. He kept having hallucinations. We know it is his medication for his legs and for the last two weeks have been trying to find the right dose to take at the right time. As mentioned before, he has Parkinsons. Last night he thought there were people in his bedroom that wouldn't leave, which was making him angry. I took turns with my...

This is a tough one. I've never been of the belief that money is evil. Or that it's good. To me, money is a tool. Assigning value to it is like making moral judgments on a hammer — it's just a tool. It is only what you do with that tool, that may deserve or merit a value judgment. But many don't see it that way (Eugene's full of folks who don't see it that way), and I found myself nodding a...

Now, unless you've been living under a rock (or not in Portland, I guess), you know that Deschutes opened their highly anticipated brewery and pub in the Pearl last week. Not wanting to go right on opening weekend, the boyfriend and I headed over on Tuesday evening after some shopping downtown and were greeted with a thriving crowd. We enjoyed some (now even more) locally brewed libations while...

AP Photo/Jae C. HongObama, speaking to surprised Vernier Software employees this morningEmployees of Beaverton-based Vernier Software and Technology weren't told in advance that Sen. Barack Obama would be visiting the company today. My colleague Anne Saker explains: "We just got...

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I really, really want to believe in the power of karma for some people, and I think with Hillary Clinton I just might be getting my wish. After two months of making everyone's life miserable past any reasonable chance of victory, Clinton is forced to do a Dead Woman Walking act for at least the next two weeks, if for no other reason than to raise money to pay herself off (after paying off all...

Personal finance is filled with tough decisions. Prepay the mortgage or invest the money? Pay down high interest debt first or use a debt snowball to tackle the small balances? Roth IRA or traditional IRA? Sara wrote recently with another dilemma I think many of us have faced: is it better to pay down debt or to begin investing for the future? I'm 28. I work at a job with no...

Oi, oi, oi you need to watch this to see what the Pacific ocean is dealing with thanks to you and me....

Here's one of those classic "WTF?" moments. Over at the Hollyrood-Fernwood School in the Grant Park neighborhood in the northeast part of Portland, a group of public-spirited folks recently raised a goodly amount of money to rehabilitate the baseball diamonds where the kids play: The work got done, all right, but where you would expect to see and hear kids playing the great American game,...

I know, I know, it seems like an Obama-mama-rama around here these days. Now for something completely different. Mama may rhyme better with Obama, but Senator Clinton has the mamas on the mind and there's nothing wrong with that. Everything right with that, in fact. I love that a Presidential candidate so clearly sees where we mamas fit into this whole thing. While I am undoubtedly an...

In August of 2007 District Attorney Joshua Marquis wrote to Steve Briggs of the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking that Briggs’ Criminal Justice Division investigate and determine whether the actions of Richard Lee, then a county commissioner, constituted criminal misconduct. In the letter Marquis stated he had resisted acting on continued reports that Lee was pressuring county employees...

Yesterday night, Congressman Peter DeFazio endorsed Barack Obama, becoming the third US Representative from Oregon to do so. From the Oregonian: On Thursday night, Rep. Peter DeFazio became Oregon's third Democratic congressman to endorse Sen.Barack Obama, putting the Illinois politician one delegate closer to the presidential nomination. DeFazio said that Obama, who will begin a two-day...

Here in Oregon we have a contested race for Attorney General. After having lived in states with lukewarm or ineffective AGs, I decided to vote for John Kroger, a newcomer to Oregon like myself and not vote for Greg MacPherson, who has been a state rep. This is from Kroger's campaign - quoted with permission but emphasis is mine alone John is a law professor at Lewis & Clark and a former...

Perhaps you've heard of the new smart cars? Those tiny cars that look like a matchbox car on growth hormones. It would seem that "smart car" is an oxymoron. They should call them "above average intelligence vehicles." Hybrid cars aren't much better though... they're basically the methadone version of the gas car. Cars are very much an icon of American culture... a defining feature of...

Check out this gorgeous photo set from Discover magazine's website depicting macro photography of individual sand grains. Just beautiful stuff. [another great catch by my Canukistani operative Yuri -- photo credit in linked article] Enjoy unexpected sources of beauty,...

I'll have five minutes to ask questions of Barack Obama tomorrow afternoon after his campaign stop in Albany. People in the newsroom gave me a barrage of questions ranging from listing polar bears on the endangered species act to how the senator avoids junk food on the campaign trail. I'll be asking those questions. But I wanted to give you a chance to suggest some more things that we'd talk about....

I believe on one's birthday you should be surrounded by your favorite things, which in my case, involves new sparkly shoes, unlimited access to pie, and the soundtrack to Flight of the Conchords which will be playing continuously on iTunes throughout my work day. But in honor of my 33rd birthday, I thought I'd share another of my favorite things with you all, so here you go, a very special Buffy...

Well well. Who knew Nick Fish was such a fan of semi-famous female-power porn directors? A recent downtown coffeeshop run-in with the Portland City Council Seat 2 candidate confirmed two things: 1) that it's tough for me to go a few days without bumping into the busy candidate-about-town and 2) Fish had a much more interesting life in New York City in the 80's and 90's then I ever imagined....

downtown Salem.

Word just came in from the Obama campaign that the Senator will stop in Portland, Eugene and Albany tomorrow. Looks like the I-5 corridor is the place to be to catch candidates. Here are the details for the Albany event: Town hall meeting with Barack Obama Linn County Fair and Expo Center Willamette Events Center 3700 Knox Butte Rd. Doors Open: 1:45 p.m. Program Begins: 3:30 p.m. The event...

It could have been a 400-foot-tall building.

If I could pass my sentiment along to all the Hummer and SUV drivers I see on a regular basis, it would be like staying regular, similar to a regular bowel movement. But since they drive too fast and usually have the windows rolled up, I feel constipated. I recently contacted two people who were featured in a newsletter for a "green products" company, ecoQuest, which really plays into the whole...