It's difficult to understand how communities will be better served by combining two mastheads into one and changing a tri-weekly to a bi-weekly.
I loved the branches of retro-styled groceries Bi-Rite Market (in The Mission and Western Addition), with their lustworthy displays of local produce.
Numerous Matsés expressed concern to the Guardian and during the bi-national meeting about the potential impacts on the IPVI, and their statement calls for the "immediate termination" of operations in both concessions because of the threats to their lives and territory.
The bi-weekly free title, The Portland Tribune, has increased its print order while the alternative weekly, The Willamette Week, is also printing more copies while expanding its online and mobile presence.
It's partly because they're filled with holes, telephone boxes, grates, craters, broken glass, trees, pedestrians, parked cars, waiting cabs and litter bins; but mostly because they stop and start suddenly, up on high kerbs, so to get off the road and on to them safely I'd have to master some nifty manoeuvre to do with quantum bi-location, atomic wormholes and halting earth time.
Earlier this month numerous Matsés in Brazil crossed the border into Peru to attend a bi-national, three-day meeting for Matsés from both countries, which was held in a village called Santa Rosa and concluded with them "totally rejecting" both concessions.
Alternatively, Dr Richard Wise, psychologist at Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery, believes the relationship between work and drinking may be bi-directional.
Indeed, the bi-annual British Council Showcase will be at this year's Edinburgh fringe: a terrific opportunity for those selected, it is unashamedly about selling British culture all across the world.
The bi-annual mag is a spin-off from Northern & Shell's OK! magazine.
Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi said the legislation sent from the Senate represented a "historic" bi-partisan compromise.
They have made similar statements regarding the concessions every year for the last five years after previous bi-national meetings, leading one woman, Delia Rodriguez Lopez, to tell this year's gathering, "We don't want to keep talking about this.
