January 23rd, 2012 by Bill Lascher Sights | Tweets
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For my latest edition of the Along for the Ride series of transit chronicles I rode Line 14 from Downtown Portland to Lents, and back again. Along the way I stopped for lunch at a taqueria I’d once [...]
September 23rd, 2011 by Bill Lascher Guitars, cellos, saxophones, toy pianos and more, the Streetcar Mobile Music Fest featured musicians performing aboard various streetcars throughout the night. Click the link to listen to and see what it was like when I went along for the ride. [...]
September 16th, 2011 by Bill Lascher This week’s installment of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. is an audio postcard from a rush hour trip aboard the MAX Blue Line to Hillsboro. In a future edition, I’ll explore the rest of the line, from Downtown Portland, East to Gresham. [...]
August 26th, 2011 by Bill Lascher Welcome to the second week of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. If you haven’t already, check out the first edition and if you like the series, please spread the word, or even cover my bus fare.
This week, I woke early Wednesday morning intending to [...]
August 19th, 2011 by Bill Lascher Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large.
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The concept: explore Portland as seen from the metropolitan region’s transit lines. Each week, through a highly [...]
July 6th, 2011 by Bill Lascher Portland-based Sustainable Business Oregon reported yesterday that Stumptown once again won silver in Site Selection Magazine‘s Rankings of the nation’s most sustainable metroplitan communities.
Once again coming in second to the Bay Area (Site Selection‘s lede about San Francisco’s ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages was cornily fantastic), Portland ranked high alongside Oregon, which came [...]
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 the Cascades Volcano Observatory has [...]
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 the chill beneath an interstate, listening to teenagers gossip. Staring at the spikes lining [...]
November 25th, 2009 by Bill Lascher Finding Community | Stopping to Breathe | False divisions | Continuing the discussion | Other Voices
I arrived in Los Angeles late Monday afternoon. As I landed, I watched the sunset turn the Santa Monica Mountains that golden hue they turn in late fall, caught glimpses of the skyscrapers along Wilshire Blvd., marveled at the [...]
March 17th, 2009 by Bill Lascher While I put off thinking of a snappier title for my weekly collections of images seen out and about, I thought I’d post a few images from quite a distance out (at least compared to my day to day around L.A.). I’ve been in Portland (the Oregon edition) since March 13 for what could easily [...]
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