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Friday | October 1, 2010
House Sales Sink While Unemployment Stays Buoyant
But that hasn't stopped the crime lords in banking and finance from putting your family on foreclosure's fast track, now has it? What to do? DYI: Build your own shelter with locally-made, lego-like "green" bricks similar to those the Europeans used "after World War II to rebuild Europe and use all of the waste and rubble." It's all part of an "historic shift" and "reordering of priorities," says the green brick maker, who "hope(s) it's permanent and we're moving away from a highly materialistic age."
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Sustainable DIY house a possibility
Lenders Forced to Suspend Thousands of Foreclosures after Admitting to Faulty Review Process
Chase's foreclosure halt does not affect loans in Oregon
Thursday | September 30, 2010
Do You Write With Forked Word Processor?
If so, maybe Portland Fiction Project wants you! If you're particularly skilled with turning actual reality into depraved fantasy, you might have a bright future as mouthpiece for government bureaucracy, multinational corporatism or the TV news!
Go to story: Portland Fiction Project Seeking Writers For Short-Term Project
Wednesday | September 29, 2010
An Assertive "Wynde" Becomes "Driving Force Behind Golden Rule"
Transforms age-old wisdom into a "social experiment in creativity and commerce (and craziness)."
Go to story: Portland Spaces: Golden Rule
Tuesday | September 28, 2010
Portland Wiki's 1st Birthday Is Today!
To celebrate, we're demoting WikiMaster to WikiBot as soon as we can figure out how.
Go to non-story: Littlest GNU Bot (in) Transition
Monday | September 27, 2010
The End Is Nigh!
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Comes to Portland's Hollywood Theatre, October 1-2-3, 2010.
Go to story: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
Sunday | September 26, 2010
Canoeist Alexander Martin: "Extreme Paddler" Ain't No Day Tripper
Begins paddling in Portland, Oregon. 4,300 miles later, ends journey in Portland, Maine.
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Cross-country paddler completes canoe trip
America's Rivers Expedition
Saturday | September 25, 2010
Portland, Oregon: Cheap-Ass Cars & Spendy Bikes
Phoenix, Arizona: Spendy cars & cheap-ass bikes. Can we trade?
Portland boasts lower car resale prices than most other U.S. towns. Unfortunately, the burden of over-priced used bicycles is greater only in Seattle. Will City Repair's "community lantern walks" become a favorite activity for Portlandians squeezed out of city's costly used bike culture? Or how 'bout serving up a "$20 plan" as a tasty side dish to the city's "20 minute plan"?
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September 25: Firefly Community Lantern Walk Along Portland’s Willamette River | Free
Bicycle Inflation in Paradise?
A 20-minute city plan