Beyond the bus

In the increasingly cold weather, these 17-, 18- and 1900 series buses, all almost 20 years old and made by Flxible, are at risk of breakdown as age takes its toll. Yet their maintenance staff continues to clean and polish these dinosaurs while the economy is getting back on its feet.

Cold as steel

It was a surprisingly cool evening last July as Portland State student Andrew Richardson stood outside his dorm in Montgomery Hall.