This utopian idea has been gestating in my head for some time. Now it looks like the Zeitgeist is opening up for it to emerge. Item: an Oregon state legislator, Mitch Greenlick, has introduced a bill to make tobacco a prescription drug, and to criminalize off-prescription use. Greenlick is chair of the Oregon House Committee on …
Tag: Portland OR
Jul 26
Bicycles in an Art Museum?
Memo to the Oakland Museum: The Portland OR Art Museum has a popular special exhibit featuring modern bicycle designs. More than forty bikes are on display, ranging from the ultra-compact Sachs Tango, which folds up almost into a briefcase, to the Smith Long John, one of the first cargo-carrying bikes. There’s also the Taga, a …