Portland A-Z

Submitted by Amanda Fritz on December 26, 2006 - 10:55am.

This blog is about issues I find interesting in Portland, Oregon. Its subtitle is "Portland A-Z" because the main focus is the city of Portland and the people who live, work, and play here, and I aim to be widely inclusive in encouraging everyone to feel welcome to read and comment.

Also, my older son pointed out in an epic Mother's Day poem a few years ago that my name starts with an A, and ends with a Z.

As I've started writing articles, I realize that many of my posts will be longer than typical blog entries. I aim to delve into issues in detail, as often core policies are carried out (or not) in those details. Explaining complicated issues often can't be done in a paragraph or two, and I make no apologies for refusing to dumb it down. I believe Portlanders deserve adequate, accurate information and are very capable of understanding and digesting it.

This blog is about Portland and its relationships with Oregon, the United States, and the world, from Amanda Fritz's perspective.

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Good luck, Amanda!

Submitted by bojack on December 28, 2006 - 12:26pm.
Good luck, Amanda!
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Hey, it would be great if

Submitted by Dickey45 on December 28, 2006 - 2:03pm.
Hey, it would be great if you could register with orblogs.com. I'd love to remember to go to your site! Also, with all the drupal sites, it would be great if you could enable global logging so that those of us that already have an account at drupal.org could login using one account...
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I registered with ORBlogs

Submitted by Amanda Fritz on December 28, 2006 - 2:29pm.
I registered with ORBlogs this morning - they said it takes a day or two to be approved. I will ask my Fairy Blogmother about global logging, as to me that would be something to do with timber in equatorial rainforests and I'm guessing that's not what you're after. Thanks for asking!
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*waving wand...* Drupal

Submitted by LynnS on December 28, 2006 - 2:43pm.
*waving wand...* Drupal global logging enabled! --Fairy Blogmother
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Congratulations, Amanda, on

Submitted by Carol McCreary on December 29, 2006 - 7:58am.
Congratulations, Amanda, on the launch of your blog. It looks like a friendly spot, especially for people like us, PHLUSH, the public toilet advocates based here in Old Town Chinatown. We know what we need and now Council has come online with the SAFE (Street Access for Everyone) program and would like to see concrete progress on the comfort station front within the next few months. The challenge now is to how to proceed with respect to public process, social justice and best practice in an area where so many other cities have failed. We welcome ideas and roll-up-your sleeves contributions. The Office of the Mayor has called together a team to implement the recommendations of "Going Public: Strategies for Meeting Public Restroom Need in Portland's Central City". This superb report by PSU's Relief Works is available at http://www.americanrestroom.org/phlush/. I hope we can get everyone comfortable with the issues so we can define what we want and make it happen. When downtown Portland has clean, safe, comfortable public restrooms folks will get out of their cars and onto public transit, visitors will find our streets even more convivial, and elders, kids and the invisivle populations of "restroom challenged" folks will walk and participate in fitness activities, and we all will have reclaimed a bit of the Common Good.
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