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Street Food Is the New Fast Food

Ross Resnick | Posted 12.29.2009 | Style

Read More: Street Food, Fast Food, Foodie, Food, Foodies, Food Trucks, Portland Oregon, McDonald's, Food Carts, Seattle, Top 10, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, 2009, Style News
Ross Resnick

In case you have not followed the street food movement, the bacon wrapped hot dog cart outside your local dive bar does not solely represent curbside cuisine any longer.

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President to Speak at Human Trafficking Conference

Michelle Bart | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Bart, Soroptimist, Liam Neeson, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Women's Issues, Nwcat, Hln, Cnn, Portland Oregon, Media, President, Human Trafficking, Politics News
Michelle Bart

Portland, OR - Soroptimist International Northwestern Region along with many other agencies will come together to host the annual Northwest Conferen...

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After climber deaths, Oregon debates beacon use

Sky Hi Daily News | SkyHi Daily | Posted 12.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Home News

PORTLAND, Ore. - When a rescue team came on Luke Gullberg's body at the top of a Mount Hood glacier and tried to figure out what had become ...

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After climber deaths, Oregon faces beacon question

Summit Daily News | Summit Daily | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Home News

PORTLAND, Ore. - When a rescue team came on Luke Gullberg's body at the top of a Mount Hood glacier and tried to figure out what had become ...

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Another sponsor backs away from Tiger Woods

Fox 31 | Fox 31 | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Home News

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer said Friday that it will "downscale" its use of golfer Tiger Woods' image in its advertising c...

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New Group Aims to Make Jersey City More Bicycle-Friendly

The Jersey City Independent | The Jersey City Independent | Posted 12.07.2009 | Home

Read More: Davis-California, Portland-Oregon, Make Jersey City, Home News

From Portland, Ore., which has the most bike commuters in the nation, to Davis, Calif., which boasts bike routes so comprehensive that the city recen...

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Naming America's First Marijuana Cafe

Matthew Diffee | Posted 11.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Portland Oregon, Cannabis Cafe, Marijuana Cafe, Marijuana, Comedy News
Matthew Diffee

The place is called The Cannabis Café, which I find pretty disappointing. If there's anything we know about people who claim to use marijuana for medicinal use, it's that they have a sense of humor.

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Shaun McCanna discusses Afghanistan on "Veteran's Voice," KBOO 90.7 in Portland, Oregon, 11/20

Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Afghanistan, Home News

Shaun McCanna discusses Afghanistan on "Veteran's Voice," KBOO 90.7 in Portland, Oregon, 11/20...

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Restaurant Composts Food Waste (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Landfills, Recycle, Restaurant, commercial_composting, Composting, City Conservation, Portland Oregon, Food Waste, San Francisco, Food, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

I started composting at home almost 2 years ago. My plan was to build a few vegetable garden beds, start growing some of my own food, and go from th...

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DDP picks ZImmer team for mall upgrade

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 10.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Home News

The Downtown Denver Partnership Inc., which manages the 16th Street Mall, has picked a team headed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP (ZGF) of Por...

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2010 Suzuki Kizashi Test Drive: Is This Sporty Midsize Sedan the Best Suzuki Ever?

Hearst Communications | Hearst Communications | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Washington-Utah, Home News

Suzuki clearly has lofty expectations for its new Kizashi sedan, which we recently drove on the roads around the Washington/Oregon border, as well as ...

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Other City Leaders' Advice to Boulder: Confront 'Affordability,' Lack of Green Jobs

Jerry Lewis | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Affordable Homes, Green Jobs, Sesquicentennial, Colorado, Boulder, Portland Oregon, Urban Planning, Santa Fe New Mexico, Developers, Madison Wisconsin, Aspen Colorado, Urban Development, College Towns, Denver News
Jerry Lewis

No one will ride to a city's rescue for affordable housing. Developers, Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland said, are not going to buy $500,000 lots and put in affordable duplexes for schoolteachers.

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Judge asks responses to Obama salmon plan

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Home News

A federal judge has asked critics of the Obama administration's plan for Northwest salmon to file their responses by Oct. 2. The administration will then have two weeks to submit its reply to U.S. District Judge James Redden in Portland.

Redden outlined the schedule in a letter Wednesday.

The state of Oregon and the Nez Perce Tribe are among those fighting the plan.

The administration submitted its plan last week, revealing how it thinks it can run the region's system of hydroelectric dams in the Columbia Basin without pushing protected fish closer to extinction. The plan includes climate-change monitoring and the "last-resort" possibility of removing dams.

Critics say it does little to improve the Bush administration plan the judge has already called inadequate, and worry it could lead to drastic measures such as dam removal.

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Healing America (and What One Man Is Doing)

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Delmark Goldfarb, Twitter, Mass Hysteria, Corporate America, Balance the Bucks Concert, Health Care Reform, Portland Oregon, Neil Young, James Morgan, Corporate Greed, Blues, Barack Obama, Politics News
Beth Arnold

A man I've come to know a bit is a blues musician named Delmark Goldfarb from Portland, Oregon. He's producing a concert titled "Balance the Bucks", a rally against greed.

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Age, Writing and Workshops

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Tin House Books, Portland Oregon, American Literature, Media, Tin House, Career Change, Oregon, Writing Tips, The Balanced Life, Literary Culture, Fiction, Poetry, Living News
Marcia DeSanctis

Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.

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Monday Music Quarterback

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guardian, Tori Amos, Conor Oberst, Tyrone Wells, Denison Witmer, Country Joe McDonald, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Comic-Con, Dan Fogler, , Henry Goodman, Sling Blade, Jonathan Groff, Rosa Agostino, Eric Rosse, Porno for Pyros, Matt Hires, John Mayer, Arcade Fire, Vienna Film Festival, Eugene Levy, One Tree Hill, Silver Mt. Zion, Martyn Lenoble, Screaming Trees, Sufjan Stevens, Gossip Girl, Queens of the Stone Age, Guy Picciotto, Elvis Costello, Mike Patton, Cowboy Junkies, Jem Cohen, Asthmatic Kitty Records, Battlestar Galactica, Modest Mouse, Rick Rubin, Dmetri Martin, Beth Ditto, Robert Moses, Brace Paine, P-Vine Records, Entertainment Weekly, Ry Cooder, Laurel Canyon, Marc Broussard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gossip, Supernatural, Vic Chestnutt, Townes Van Zandt, Emile Hirsch, Elephant Six, Robert Francis, Constellation Records, Farscape, Speed Racer, Michael Stipe, O.a.R., Danny Elfman, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Elf Power, Myspace, Melanie, Richard Warren, Imelda Staunton, Steve Earle, Grateful Dead, The BQE, Stephen Halker, Jane's Addiction, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, World's Fair, Paolo Nutini, Rosie Thomas, Osso Quartet, Janis Joplin, Ang Lee, Atlantic Records, Hannah Billie, Woodstock, Bill Frisell, The Hives, Mark Lanegan, Chinese Zodiac, Love, Richard Hawley, Empires of Tin, Spunk Records, Danielson Famile, Crosby Stills & Nash, Elliot Tiber, My Brightest Diamond, Npr, Liev Schrieber, Canned Heat, Iron Man II, Rough Trade Records, Howard Bilerman, Jason Pierce, Dennis Herring, The Doors, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Red Ghost, Richie Havens, Itunes, The Band, R.E.M., Taking Woodstock, The Observer, Bruce Springsteen, Clash, Mutemath, Fugazi, Lambchop, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Viewmaster, 92ytribecca, Japan, Athens-Georgia, Detroit-Michigan, Louisiana, Tampa-Florida, Seattle-Washington, Montreal-Canada, Canada, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Salt Lake City-Utah, United Kingdom, Australia, New Orleans-Louisiana, Oxford-Mississippi, San Francisco-California, Chicago-Illinois, Portland-Oregon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.

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Notorious Rabbit Hoarder Caught Again (VIDEO)

AP | JOSEPH B. FRAZIER | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Stupid Criminals, Miriam Sakewitz, Portland-Oregon, Rabbit Hoarder, Rabbits, Bunnies, Animals, Bunny Hoarder, Green News

PORTLAND, Ore. - Washington County's "Bunny Lady" is back in the hutch after violating a court order banning her from owning animals for five years. M...

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My journey to every country on the planet

CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | Posted 06.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Seattle-Washington, Zimbabwe, Macau, Yemen, Jordan, Uganda, Brunei, Andorra, Home News

A city in Yemen, one of the countries Guillebeau plans on visiting this year. Chris Guillebeau AC360° Contributor On a six-hou...

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Laid-Off Worker Creates "We've Got Time To Help" Volunteer Group

Razoo | Razoo | Posted 06.07.2009 | Home

Read More: All for Good, Volunteering, We've Got Time to Help, The Giving Life, Portland-Oregon, Home News

Like many people in the current economy, Seth Reams of Portland, Ore., lost his job several months ago. But he soon realized that there were only so ...

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Leukemia: The New Army Camouflage

R. B. Stuart | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hawaii, US Military, Casket, Andrew's Air Force Base, 14 Juliet, SPC Andrew Rounds, Burn Pits, Iraq, Ptsd, Kirkuk Iraq, Radioactive, Aml, Coma, Portland Oregon, Cancer, Du, Scholfield Army Barracks, Ohsu, Icbuw, World News
R. B. Stuart

While the country is ravaged by a crippling economy, it is a lightweight problem compared to what's happening to a portion of military families. Their loved ones are coming home with cancer.

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Can Oakland Startup Veranda Become the Apple of Solar?

Dygest.net | Posted 03.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Portland-Oregon, Tempe-Arizona, Hayward-California, Home News

With the $400 million purchase of OptiSolar's project portfolio, First Solar has, in effect, declared war on two other large solar energy companies wh...

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10 Places Not to Yell: "Thom Yorke Is Retiring" (He's Not)

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Martin, Lars Von Trier, Bonnaroo, No Logo, Sigur Ros, Naomi Klein, SXSW 2009, Music, Portland, Tim Burton, Harvey Weinsten, Portland Is the Bike Capital of the World, Critical Mass, Tim Geithner, Thom Yorke, UC Davis, Kdvs, Coldplay, Radiohead, Andrea Chalupa, Oregon, Big Bopper, Portland Oregon, Entertainment News
Andrea Chalupa

The one place you could yell it is Iceland, let Sigur Ros know if they ever had a chance of touring American stadiums, getting Yorke out of the way could be it.

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Oregon Beer Tax Of 1,900 Percent Proposed, Sparks Outrage

Huffington Post | Posted 03.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Beer Tax in Oregon, Oregon Beer Tax, Oregon Beer Tax of 1900%, Oregon Beer Tax of 1900 Percent, Beer Tax, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Home News

Beer brewers are warning that a proposal by five Oregon state lawmakers to tax each barrel of beer by a whopping 1,900 percent would essentially put t...

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John Paxson's Future As Bulls GM Uncertain

AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Bulls, John Paxson Resigning From Bulls, Sports, John Paxson Resigning, Bulls GM, John Paxson Resignation, John Paxson, Portland Oregon, Ben Gordon, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Bulls general manager John Paxson remained on the job Friday, despite mounting criticism of the team's performance and his abi...

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Court Says Vaccine Not To Blame For Autism

AP | KEVIN FREKING and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 03.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Vaccine Ruling, Autism, Vaccine, Autism Ruling, Portland Oregon, Home News

WASHINGTON — Vaccines aren't to blame for autism, a special federal court declared Thursday in a blow to thousands of families hoping to win com...

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