edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Mother Nature paid our neighbor's sweet gum tree a visit over lunch hour today:
Armchair sports pundits who have criticized the somewhat spacey play of Blazer forward Travis Outlaw are now going to get to see what the team can do without him. Travis has broken the same bone in his foot that kept Martell Webster off the court all last year, [...] 
Although I am a certified night owl, even I don't get much out of television past 1:30 a.m. But tonight it might pay for me to stay up 'til 3, to catch live college basketball action between my alma mater, the St. Peter's Peacocks, and the Monmouth Hawks. [...] 
The use of utility easements for hiking -- and the liability of adjacent homeowners if somebody gets hurt doing it -- is turning into a true Portland City Hall snafu. It seems that Mayor Creepy's transportation bureau has been goading a nonprofit group to build trails along the' [...] 
That's what the chart accompanying the print edition of this story says:
The table says he went "dunkless" for two of his many seasons in the league. Were either of those in Portland? [...] 
No money shortage, no labor strife is enough to stop the public relations juggernaut in our many local government agencies. Here's a 9-by-27 full-color glossy mailer that arrived at our place yesterday:
John Kroger has given $5,000 to John Kitzhaber to run for governor again. Through a public records request, we obtained have a copy of the check:
Flowers by Dorcas moved over the weekend, into part of the site vacated by the ill-fated Rock and Roll Cafe on Sandy Boulevard in Portland's Hollywood District. And with that, they are out of their downtown location on Broadway. Good luck to them in their new location [...] 
If there are two things that the City of Portland is big on these days, it's spending money on planning, and spending money on public relations. Yesterday, the two came together in our mailbox with this glossy mailer:
On the address side, the details:
Didn't we just do this whole [...] 
Joining the Republicans to vote no on health care reform: Brian Baird, the Democrat from the Lars Larson Show. [...] 
We attended a double birthday party over the weekend, at which one of the honorees received as a gift an Obama Chia. He was unimpressed. "It looks more like Smokey Robinson," he said.
Got an odd orange from the store this week:
What did Big Food do this time? [...] 
