LOCAL
• PHS top executives made up to $186,000 a year, deserved it because they worked so hard, said board chair [State of Vancouver]
• Are PHS social enterprises doomed? [State of Vancouver]
• PHS audits from Vancouver Coastal Health and BC Housing: no good news for anyone [State of Vancouver]
• Contest: Choosing the happy city [The Buzzer Blog]
• Downtown Eastside community members raise concerns about future of PHS [Georgia Straight]
• Auditor’s report raises questions about Portland Hotel Society executives’ salaries and spending [Georgia Straight]
• ‘They Supported Me, and I Support the Portland’ [The Tyee]
• Bending the rules gives rise to tower with a twist [Vancouver Sun]
• A New Future for Granville Island? [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
CASCADIA
• Seattle nickname: A few modest proposals [Crosscut]
INTERNATIONAL
• Detroit’s Broken Buses Vex a Broke City [Wall Street Journal]
• Foot Is the New Traffic for Urban Cowboys [New York Times]
• Air Quality Woes May Finally Force Paris to Rethink Its Love of Diesel Fuel [The Atlantic Cities]
• Juxta-Prose: Mass Hesperia!! [UrbDeZine Los Angeles]
• Has air pollution made Kathmandu unliveable? [The Guardian]
• Instagram Photos Of Abandoned Bikes Create A Map To Clean Them Up [Fast Co.Exist]