No, you can’t
Lest anyone think, not without plenty of reason, that by virtue of its title this post is a cri de coeur of disappointment about our current President, I would like to allay your fears. This is...
View Articlebut what about the hookers?
Newsweek has just published a lengthy, ground-breaking article about Eliot Spitzer, perhaps erroneously placed under the heading “politics,” based on numerous probing and insightful personal interviews...
View Articlefeeling less than stimulated
It isn’t every day that Paul Krugman and John Boehner agree, but when they do, everyone should take notice. The Golden Mean in question? The Stimulus Package isn’t enough, by a long shot, to revive...
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Mushroom Redux
I went up to the mushroom building today, and it was oddly quiet up there, now that the exterior work is finished. Two units are now for sale, the first of which having dropped its price by $100,000....
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Buy one, Get One Free!
Instant Downtown: Atwater Place at left Atwater Place, a condominium project in the South Waterfront district near downtown Portland, will tomorrow be auctioning off 40 of the 150 or so units it has...
View ArticleThe Clients from Hell
This spring it will be 20 years that I’ve been knocking down walls, putting them back up, painting, tiling, wiring, installing kooky lighting systems, and planting everything I could get my hands on....
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Urban Mountaintop Removal
I’ve been working up at the mushroom building again this week, and couldn’t help but notice that dozens of dump trucks were descending a nearby road every day, carrying loads of soil and rock, so I...
View ArticleMy Lying Eyes
When I walked into the Bureau of Development Services, finding it packed as usual, I filled out my form to place in the first of five boxes, and settled in for a long wait. The plans I was submitting...
View ArticleFace Plant
Is anyone besides me completely unsurprised that Facebook’s absurdly over-hyped IPO ended in predictable disaster? As the investigations and lawsuits roll in, I think it’s useful to consider that...
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Phase Two
Back during the housing bubble, several houses with especially nice basements I’d recently finished went up for sale, and I got quite a few calls from complete strangers who had seen them and wanted...
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