May 4th, 2012

Along for the Ride: An Interstate Commute

Today, I took some video and audio equipment along for the ride between Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington so I can show you a sliver of what it’s like to commute by transit across the mighty Columbia River. Enjoy.

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January 23rd, 2012

Along for the Ride: Line 14

A view of the 14 from on board during my Along for the Ride series of transit chroniclesSights | Tweets

Listen: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

For my latest edition of

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September 23rd, 2011

Along for the Ride: Streetcar Music Festival

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.

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September 16th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Max Blue Line 1 -- Hillsboro

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.

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August 26th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Island Time Aboard the 85

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

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August 19th, 2011

Along for the Ride: Going Live on the 75

Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large.

Watch an Audio Slideshow | Explore the Map | See the Photo Gallery

The concept:

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July 6th, 2011

New rankings beg question: what makes Portland sustainable?

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

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May 12th, 2010

Do what I would do.

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 1st, 2010

Ducking the Elephant in the Room

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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November 25th, 2009

Making the most of making the media

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

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