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Amanda is a Registered Nurse, mother of three, and community leader in Portland, Oregon. She was the first candidate ever to qualify for Portland's Public Campaign Financing in her run for Portland City Council in 2006. On November 4, 2008 she won 71% of the vote to become your City Commissioner, again using Public Campaign Financing. Thank you, Portlanders!

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Submitted by Amanda Fritz on September 11, 2007 - 2:10pm.

The City of Portland is asking for feedback on their website. Feedback whether the website itself is user-friendly or not, that is. The offical announcement follows - please comment using the link provided.

"We are looking for feedback about the City of Portland's website - PortlandOnline!

PortlandOnline, the City of Portland's official website, has been live for four years. The time has come to check in with our users. We hope that you will let us know what you think of PortlandOnline and what improvements you would like to see.

Please let us know how we are meeting your expectations! A link to our online survey is available on the City's home page here."

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Wow- really?? If I could

Submitted by Pete Forsyth on September 11, 2007 - 9:10pm.

Wow- really?? If I could have a single dream-come-true, 95% of the PDF documents on the site would be simple web pages. Yes, I'll take the survey shortly. This is great. Any chance OregonLive is next? Now, THAT would be a dream come true.

I'm totally with you on the

Submitted by Amanda Fritz on September 11, 2007 - 10:09pm.

I'm totally with you on the pdf's, Pete. I've been asking individual bureaus to stop using them for years. "But Adobe Acrobat is free, everyone can use it!" they say. True only if you have a fast system and even then don't mind scrolling through 100 page documents. That's why I always indicate when a link here is a pdf.

A fine argument, if the

Submitted by Pete Forsyth on September 13, 2007 - 12:02am.

A fine argument, if the alternative were a WordPerfect document! But if the choice is between making a web page (hey, web browsers are free, and everybody has em!) that just doesn't, er, compute. Even on a fast computer, navigating PDFs slows things down considerably. Some documents need to be in PDF, but the vast majority don't. So I made the point like 3 times in the web survey! You're right, though, it probably will take action at individual bureaus to really have a change.