Services like Jubilee Women's Center, a transitional-housing and training nonprofit, are seeing increasing numbers of homeless single women. But because they tend to stay off the streets, it's not easy to find them and reach out.
A film-in-progress in Portland examines ties between local farms and good restaurants, and if a five-minute preview is an indication, the goodness of the relationship will be contagious.
Mike Kreidler, an elected Democrat, doesn't expect a proposal to pass right away, but he's begun crunching numbers and making speeches, and he thinks it's time for the state to take care of more than 600,000 people who are without health insurance.
In revolutionary Laurelhurst, a kid came to my door dressed in some sort of farmer outfit. What are you?
Neil Peterson, the man who built the downtown Metro bus tunnel, recounts how he got the disruptive idea for urban car-sharing and built a little company, which is now part of a nationwide firm.
