By Representative Nick Kahl (D-Rockwood). In Jeffrey Jeremy Wright’s post, “Why progressives should support the MLS to PDX proposal,� he supposed that to challenge the use of urban renewal dollars in this instance is to challenge the validity of urban renewal itself. Well, I am offering a chal...

Peter Harrison, CTO of mobile security specialist UMU, discusses the growing need to take Smartphone security seriously No one would invest hundreds of pounds in security locks, deadbolts and alarms for the front door of their house, only to leave the back door wide open and unguarded. Yet this is a...

By Jeremy Wright of Portland, Oregon. Jeremy is a writer and public affairs consultant who lives in North Portland. An avid politico and soccer fan, Jeremy ran the 1998 Vote by Mail initiative and worked Secretary of State Bill Bradbury’s 2000 and 2002 campaigns - as well as working on a number of...

Nikolaj Grubert, Vice President of Strand Consult, offers a refreshingly candid and hard-hitting review of Mobile World Congress 2009 This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is over, and once again many of the telecom industry’s top management convened in Spain to exchange experience, kno...

By Senator Jeff Merkley. Editor's Note: The Senator will be joining us live at 3 p.m. to answer your questions here at BlueOregon. America's economy is caught in a vicious vortex. This vortex is created by three interlocking factors; a jobs crisis, a lending crisis, and a mortgage crisis. If we don'...

By Ben DuPree of Portland, Oregon. Previously, Ben worked for Jeff Merkley's U.S. Senate campaign, worked for then-Commissioner Sam Adams, consulted with the SEIU, and serves on Metro's Committee for Citizen Involvement. Ben previously blogged at Witigonen and now blogs at Preemptive Karma. Oregon n...

By Jonathan Jelen of Portland, Oregon. Jonathan is the old-growth campaign coordinator for Oregon Wild (formerly known as the Oregon Natural Resources Council.) Back in November, we voted for change. We voted for change on the national level. And statewide in Oregon, we voted for change. So why is o...

By Jonathan Jelen of Portland, Oregon. Jonathan is the old-growth campaign coordinator for Oregon Wild (formerly known as the Oregon Natural Resources Council.) Back in November, we voted for change. We voted for change on the national level. And statewide in Oregon, we voted for change. So why is o...

John Strand, CEO of Strand Consult, looks at the key themes likely to emerge from this year's Mobile World Congress, which starts on Monday in Barcelona Next week, another Mobile World Congress (MWC) will begin, and once again many of the most important people in the mobile industry will f...

By Robert Leo Heilman of Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Robert is a former logger and sawmill worker, who is now a critically-acclaimed essayist and author. He is the author of Overstory Zero: Real Life in Timber Country. Previously, he contributed "Poverty in the Umpqua." I was talking to a woodcutter the o...