Bicyclists welcome at one Portland fast food chain's drive thru

From the Boston Globe:

A few weeks ago, Sarah Gilbert, a Portland native who is proudly “car-free,’’ pedaled her bicycle to the drive-through at Burgerville, a local fast-food chain. She ordered four cheeseburgers, one each for her husband and three young sons, who were waiting hungrily at home.

But when Gilbert tried to pay for the food, she was denied. This Burgerville drive-through, an employee told her, did not serve bicyclists.

As you can tell from the headline, this one had a happy ending.

The best story you'll read all year

An investigative piece in the New York Times Magazine about Memorial Medical Center and what happened there during Hurricane Katrina. It's 13,000 words long, took over two years to complete and is definitely the best journalistic piece you'll meet all year.

Katrina was the reason that I started doing political blogging (and somehow that turned into blogging about New Mexico politics), so this story is doubly interesting to me.