This is why people hate bike lanes, ”Marc Schlossberg yelled over his shoulder while riding a bike lane on E. 13th Ave., in Eugene. Schlossberg and a city planner from Redmond, Scott Woodford, were sandwiched between two lanes of traffic—a lumbering bus to the left, and a pack of sedans vying for territory in a turn lane to their right.
ANGELA HASELTINE POZZI grew up in Port- land and spent summers in coastal Bandon at her grandparents’ house. The beach became her peace of mind, so when she lost her husband in 2007 to a brain tumor and “everything turned upside down,” she left Portland for this childhood sanctuary.
AN UNFINISHED SKIFF hung two stories up in a workshop scattered with industrial tools, scrap wood and works in progress. Cut pine mixed with the smoky char of ground metal. The scent lingered like dust in the air.
“My family in Japan has been in this gardening business since 1890, so I am bound to do the garden, I guess.”
Todd Nash is at home when he’s on his horse, herding cattle. Nonetheless, that’s just one piece of this cowboy’s life as a rancher.
The State of Oregon is on the verge of enacting its ninth “kicker” tax rebate and returning an estimated $470 million to Oregon taxpayers. The kicker, which was voted into the Oregon State Constitution in 2000, is enacted whenever state revenues are 2 percent more than the calculated budget. A quickly improving economy and the ongoing intricacies of projecting state revenues two years in advance has led to renewed debate and a new proposal to kill the kicker and retain the surplus for schools and a rainy day fund. Here, Chuck Sheketoff from the Oregon Center for Public Policy and Republican state representative Vic Gilliam rekindle this debate.
Sacha White, owner of Portland-based bike shop, The Vanilla Workshop, comes from a background of racing bikes and restoring and customizing vintage Vespas and Lambrettas.
Artist Sara Siestreem has several jobs, no cell phone and no car, allowing her to focus intently on what she cares about most.
“There’s a slower pace of life here, and it’s made its way into our process.”
