May 12th, 2010 by Bill Lascher I’m going to someplace not Portland this weekend. If you feel like following me, you might head east of Idaho, south of the Hudson Bay, north of Mali and west of Bhutan.
However, if I were staying town, there are a number of things I might do:
Check out what
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May 11th, 2010 by Bill Lascher As I noted last week, I don’t just write:
May 7th, 2010 by Bill Lascher Like Jen Willis, today I attended an investigative business journalism seminar organized by the Reynolds Center. Unlike Jen, though, I don’t feel as pessimistic about the potential for freelance journalists to do investigative work. Nor do I feel staff writers should lament, at least not for the long term. What I took
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May 5th, 2010 by Bill Lascher I’ve been skirting a number of un-publicly-expressed goals of mine during the 2010 Blogathon, or so I’d like to say.
I knew when I agreed to participate in the Blogathon that I’d run headlong into a passion of mine or two. Except when meeting a reporting deadline, I don’t believe in writing
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May 4th, 2010 by Bill Lascher
May 3rd, 2010 by Bill Lascher 
Last Spring, I wrote a commentary about my personal experiences with transit in Los Angeles. An assignment for a class, it was something of a companion to the reporting I’d done for my master’s project, the work that
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May 1st, 2010 by Bill Lascher
The day takes shape slowly. Getting out the door just happens. Once you do the bus is ten minutes late. Then so is the MAX, but you don’t mind. You’ve been quietly extricating yourself from time. You wait in
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