Friday Profile: Carfree drag queen Poison Waters
“I wouldn’t be able to spend what I spend and look the way I look if I had a monthly car payment and insurance and gas and all that crap.”
The Friday Profile
Friday Profile: Milwaukie Mayor Mark Gamba leads with cycling and climate change
A rare regional politician who isn’t afraid of the word “bike”.
The Friday Profile: Doug Klotz, Southeast Portland’s unlikely lightning rod
How did a hardware store clerk with a film degree become the most controversial man in Richmond?
The Friday Profile: Boris and Melissa Kaganovich, Portland’s merry pranksters of street reinvention
The pair hope to leave Portland with an unfamiliar and powerful insight: sometimes, improvisation works.
The Friday Profile: Steve Novick, the accidental Southwest Portlander
When Portland’s transportation commissioner arrived in town, he was almost a caricature of a newcomer to the Northwest.
The Friday Profile: David Griffiths, Portland’s tattooed philosopher of ‘ciclovismo’
“If ‘cyclist’ is the ‘ist,’ there needs to be an ‘ism’ to go with that.'”
The Friday Profile: Kyle Carlson, Daimler Trucks’ 52-mile-a-day iron man
This single father of three might have the most intense bike commute in Oregon.
Holiday profile: David Lewis of Veteran Bicycle Co. is trying to invent a cheaper bike
The most audacious bike-design entrepreneur in Portland is more focused on everything except the frame.
The Friday Profile: Jackie Dingfelder, the lawmaker who biked away
One of the best friends bicycling has ever had in Salem, Jackie Dingfelder, is now a voice for biking in Portland City Hall.
The Friday Profile: Jim Chasse, East Portland’s quiet, conquering bike warrior
“It just makes too much sense,” Chasse, 58, said in an interview at McMenamins Mall 205. “I mean, Yeah, light rail is great. And bus service is absolutely critical. But I mean, I quit driving.”
The Friday Profile: Rachael Pecore-Valdez, mountain-bike rookie on a wolf’s tail
For someone whose longest bike trip ever is 40 miles to Sauvie Island and back, a 1,200-mile, five-week mountain bike trek through Eastern Oregon will be, well, a leap.
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