1221 SW 4th

Food for thought

I'm glad we have this blog going. I'm a hip, WiFi kind of guy. And it's nice to have a place to blow off a little steam every now and then.

It's especially timely because even with the new family responsibilities and all, I've still got some time on my hands. My plate has gotten a lot cleaner lately. Regionalize Bull Run? Gone. Buy PGE? Over. Local campaign finance reform? History. Buy the Beavers? Heck, we bought them a long time ago. Fight the cable companies? Done.

But I'm not sitting around not thinking. No way, I've still got ideas. Maybe we ought to take another run at toll booths on the Willamette River bridges. Or go back to covering 405 for some more condo towers. Making Burnside a one-way street -- that was one of our better ones. Or here's a new one that came to me the other night down at the Lucky Lab: How about the city takes over the Cafe Azul? It makes good sense. Our future is in food -- you can't live without it. I'm thinking 50 years out -- do we want affordable blue corn tortillas or not? I for one think we ought to have them, and given the economy, only the city can make it happen. You can't trust McDonald's. That Chipotle deal is just a front for corporate greed.

We'd have to hire it out, of course. Note to self: Maybe we could get Neil interested if we give him a lock on the wine concession.

Posted by Erik at February 10, 2004 07:35 AM