I now live in the library ghetto. This means that, because of where I live within the City of Tualatin, I can reserve or check out books only from the Tualatin Public Library, and not any of the 13 other libraries that are a part of Washington County Cooperative Library Services. Thankfully, my local newspaper [...]

Andrew Spittle has a post up on ideas for expanding Spot.Us. The skinny is to give the funding community more power over who is reporting on what stories. In addition to allowing them to choose which stories are funded, they’d also have some amount of influence on who reports on which stories. Let’s take this [...]

In the last few days, this Bachhuber family has received not one, but two new additions: Mia Hamm and David Beckham: As my sister gets ready to go off to college, my mom thought it would be best to make sure the house stays lively.  We visited the local animal rescue shelter, and Maggie picked [...]